Bal-tec

Micro Surface Engineering, Inc. is a 60-year-old, fully integrated, family owned and managed, California Corporation. We are located in the central manufacturing district of Los Angeles, California. The industrial buildings that comprise our facilities are family owned. As of 2012, we have 40,500 square feet of manufacturing space, 723 machines, and over 33,000 different balls in stock.

We can provide our customers with engineering assistance based on over 60 years of experience in precision manufacturing and metrology.

We have our ball inventory available for your immediate purchase on our web site shopping cart. If its not in stock, we can make it. 

Our company has extensive capabilities, and we are small enough to provide personal service. This broad array of experience includes: ball plug gages, ball seat lapping tools, ball sizing, ball valve technology, bearing technology, dimensional metrology, flexures, kinematic couplings, the metallurgy of balls and rollers, and precision engineering.

Our Bal-tec™ division is one of the top six precision ball manufacturers in the United States. Our goal is to satisfy the niche market for custom made precision balls, cylinders and associated products.

The basis of our business is our unique ability to quickly manufacture custom made precision and ultra precision spheres and cylinders and a myriad of modified forms needed by industry.

Many of these components are balls and cylinders modified with flats, holes, and threads; or are attached to other devices. We have developed extensive brazing, Electrical Discharge Machining ( E.D.M.), grinding, machining, and welding capabilities. Our precision ball making capacity extends from subminiature balls in the .005-inch diameter range to monsters that are over 17 inches in diameter and weigh over one thousand pounds.