Custom panel making and laser engraving

We can design and fabricate custom panels from plastics, wood or metal. We offer powder coating or painted finishes and custom laser engraving. Panels can be rack mountable, flat plates or custom enclosures. We can laser engrave items up to 500 x 300mm in size or work with other fabricators to offer larger sizes and other CNC services. We can work with you to incorporate switches, fuses, connectors, displays, meters, ventilation, labelling, logos etc. Panels can be supplied empty, populated or fully wired.

Two way radio hire, sales and maintenance

An expanding area of our work is two-way business radio. What started as sourcing and maintaining our own fleet of hire radios, quickly turned into a service we provide to several other events companies who asked us to do the same for them. General used radio equipment sales grew from this as we inevitably chose to standardise a select few models for our hire stock. This leaves us with a surplus of perfectly usable, industry standard radio equipment to sell. As customers are sometimes growing their existing fleet and already have a licence in place, we are able to provide programming as required to get everything ‘talking together’.

Our used radio equipment gets a great deal of our attention before sale. This usually consists of provisional testing, thorough cleaning (often inside and out), adding spare parts, checking battery health, updating, programming, final testing and applying a protective dressing that restores and protects the plastic housings. Our ‘best seller’ has become a set of six DP4400 or DP4400e radios with a six-way charger, all programmed up ready to go on one of Ofcom’s standard business licences.

Our own radio hire stock consists primarily of Motorola MotoTRBO products. We have portables (handhelds) from the DP3441, DP3661 and DP4000 series, mobiles (vehicle or desktop) from the DM4600 series and SLR5500 repeaters. Most of our stock is GPS enabled. We have a great relationship with several other events companies locally whose stock we maintain and between us we can supply larger events with up to a few hundred radios.

Sound/lighting hire for small-scale events and used equipment sales

As we have moved into other specialist areas, a shrinking area of our work is sound/lighting equipment hire. You are very welcome to continue to make queries regarding your event and we’ll be happy to recommend someone if we can no longer help you directly.

Our hires are usually provided on a ‘wet’ basis where equipment is transported, installed, removed and often operated by us. Our services have previously included providing packages for fetes, fairs, weddings, parties, schools, Scout/Guide events, charity concerts, amateur dramatics, church events, drama groups, sports events and many others.

As we have downsized this area, much of our equipment has been or is being offered for sale, used. Please contact us for an up to date list of available equipment.

Remaining key sound equipment for hire includes: Yamaha LS9–32 digital sound desk QSC powerlight amplifier rack 8ch with Soundweb DSP ‘Racked and ready’ PA systems for small bands, music playback and ‘100v line’ for outdoor announcements Several speaker options Stands, cabling, microphones, DI boxes etc. (the bits to join it all up!)

Remaining key lighting equipment for hire includes: LED uplighting RGBW LED Pars Simple ‘disco’ effects. Stands, cabling etc. (the bits to join it all up!)