Case inserts & battery trays
Pelican and Nanuk inserts cut to your batteries, radios and controllers. Finger scoops, drains, lanyard slots.
What we make
Working parts for shops, fields and job sites.
Everything below prints in-house in West Fargo on engineering materials, gets measured against the drawing, and ships with a photo. If you are not sure which bucket your part is in, send it anyway.
Jigs & fixtures
The fixture your shop made by hand, made the same every time.
Welding and assembly fixtures, drill and tap guides, masking templates for paint and powder coat, vise soft jaws, go/no-go gauges, alignment blocks and the odd holder that keeps a part square while glue sets. Printed fixtures cost a fraction of machined aluminum, weigh almost nothing, and can be reprinted the day one gets dropped.
- PETG or PETG-CF for the bench; ASA where there is weld spatter or heat; PA-CF for anything clamped hard.
- Threaded brass inserts, magnets and dowel pins installed on request.
- We keep your file. Reorders ship in 2–3 days without a design charge.
Prototypes & fit checks
Bolt it on before you buy tooling.
Send a STEP, STL, 3MF, IGES or Fusion/SolidWorks/Onshape export and get the part in your hand in a few business days. Enclosures with standoffs and snap lids, housings, brackets, ducting, handles, mock-ups for customer sign-off. When a prototype has to behave like the production part, we print it in carbon-fiber nylon and send caliper measurements of the features you call out.
- Dimensional report on request: calipers on the features you call out, delivered as a PDF.
- Iterations are cheap — change the file, pay for print time only.
- No file yet? Design time is $95/h, quoted before any work starts.
Replacement parts
For equipment that still runs but can't get parts.
Knobs, clips, handles, covers, trim, battery doors, gear housings, fan shrouds and the plastic bracket that holds an entire cab panel on. Send a photo with a tape measure or calipers in frame, the make and model, and what broke. We model it, show you the screen before printing, and send the part — usually in a tougher material than the original.
- Ag and construction equipment, snowmobiles, boats, RVs, shop tools, appliances, furniture hardware.
- Broken original in hand? Mail it or drop it off in West Fargo and we measure it directly.
- We do not copy parts that are still sold by the manufacturer under patent, or anything safety-critical (brakes, steering, pressure vessels, towing). Full list on the Scope & Safety page.
Survey & field gear
Ground-side gear we already print for ourselves.
Northern Drone's crews use inserts, stands and models we designed in-house. The ground-side items are available to other operators and firms. We do not sell aircraft-mounted parts.
Terrain & site models
Physical models printed from LiDAR and survey data — a site, a drainage, a pit — for bid meetings, public hearings and client presentations.
Survey field gear
GCP target stands, prism and receiver adapters, pole clips, tablet mounts for the truck.
Design services
No file? We'll make one.
From a photo or sketch
A photo with a tape measure, a napkin sketch with dimensions, or the broken part itself. Broken-part reproduction starts at a flat $75 measure-and-CAD minimum plus print.
$95/h · ¼-hour billingDesign for printing
Have a CAD model that was drawn for machining or molding? We adapt wall thickness, orientation, tolerances and fasteners for printing.
quoted in hours up frontEngineering review
Parts that carry load or heat can be referred for an outside engineering review before we print, quoted separately. Without one, printed parts are not rated for structural or safety loads.
quoted per partYour files and designs stay yours. We do not share, resell or post customer parts without written permission. Every functional part ships labelled with its material and intended use; see Scope & Safety and Terms.
Have a part in mind?
Send a file, a sketch or a photo with a tape measure in it. You get a price, a material and a lead time within one business day.