Devon Pretorius Email & Phone Number

Woodstock, Cape Town

Straightening and grinding of petrol and small diesel crankshafts. Minor maintenance on the machine I use. Stock taking (I'm in charge of making sure the tool cupboard I make use of has all of it's tool returned by day's end). Beginning of 2016 I was moved to reboring. I rebore, resleeve and skim engine blocks. 2018 I was moved to lineboring. Lineboring of.

Home - Northern Suburbs

I currently machine frame sliders / crash bobbins for various bikes. Soon I will be looking into bar ends as well.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I am a Managing Partner alongside 2 other partners. Working with wood, metal, composites, Fusion designing and 3D printing. We manufacture custom items for clients and do our best to deliver the best end product that we can.

King Williams Town

I continued reboring blocks. I was briefly put in cylinder head section, but then had to work in both blocks and heads. I did more welding in my free time (arc welding) and did minimal lathe work as someone was hired to do the lathe work. I was later moved to conrod section and resized conrods and fitted and machined small-end bushes. June 2014 I went to.

North End, East London

My first position was in cylinder head section, overhauling, cleaning, refacing valves, cutting seats, setting shims, skimming and assembling cylinder heads. 2007 I was moved to engine blocks. My job description was then re-boring, honing and resleeving blocks. In my free time I learned to re-size conrods and fit and machine small-end bushes. I left VSK.

Cambridge Goodsheds, East London

Servicing of vehicles, removal and installation of engines, cylinder heads, gearboxes, sideshafts, driveshafts, engine conversions, towing of broken down vehicles and readying vehicles for roadworthy. I worked on cars, bakkies and trucks. I also had to collect and deliver customer vehicles. Stainless steel and CO2 welding was necessary as I had to.