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We build custom hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders to your print or specification — one-off replacements, short runs, and production quantities for OEMs. There is no fixed catalog to pick from; every cylinder is made to the bore, rod, stroke, mounting, and seals your application needs. Welded and tie-rod constructions are both available.

Yes. WestCraft Manufacturing is ISO 9001:2015 certified and has been building custom cylinders in Alto, Texas since 1970. Every cylinder is 100% pressure-tested before it ships, and builds are fully traceable.

Our build envelope runs from about a 1-inch bore up to a 36-inch bore. If your application sits outside that range, tell us in the request and engineering will review it — but the great majority of hydraulic cylinder work falls comfortably inside it.

We design cylinders for working pressures up to 10,000 PSI, and every unit is 100% pressure-tested before it leaves the shop. The right pressure rating for your build depends on bore, rod, and duty; state your system pressure in the request and it is designed and tested to it.

We build strokes up to about 360 inches — 30 feet. Long-stroke cylinders bring rod buckling into play, so on long strokes the rod is sized against our minimum 3.0x buckling safety factor. Our rod-buckling calculator shows how stroke, rod diameter, and mounting drive that number.

Standard construction is a precision-honed steel barrel and a hard-chrome-plated rod, with the seal compound chosen for your temperature and fluid. The three common seal choices are Buna-N (nitrile) for ordinary petroleum service, polyurethane for heavy cycling and wear, and FKM (Viton) for high heat or aggressive fluids. Material and seal selection is confirmed by engineering for each build.

The code our configurator generates reads left to right as bore, rod, stroke, mounting, seal, port type, and pressure class. For example WC-4-2-24-CL-BN-OR-P30 is a 4-inch bore, 2-inch rod, 24-inch stroke, clevis mount, Buna-N seals, O-ring boss ports, 3,000 PSI class. It captures the build identity; operating details like flow and quantity are quoted separately.

The fastest quote comes from seven things: bore, rod diameter, stroke, retracted length, mounting style at each end, port type and size, and working pressure — plus a drawing or a photo of the nameplate if you have one. Do not have all of that? Send what you know, or use our configurator or sizing wizard, and engineering fills the gaps with you.

We handle everything from a single replacement cylinder to production runs, so there is no one-size-fits-all minimum — it depends on the build. Quantity is one of the things we quote per job; tell us how many you need and it is priced for that quantity.

Lead time and price are quoted per job, because they depend on the cylinder, the quantity, and current shop schedule — we do not publish a flat figure that would be wrong for most builds. Send the specs or a print and engineering returns a firm price and lead time. If a machine is down and you are waiting on it, say so and ask about expedite.

Yes. We rebuild hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders of any make, and we reverse-engineer obsolete or unbranded cylinders from measurements when no drawing or part number exists. The rebuild reuses the good structure you already have and replaces the wear parts.

The teardown evaluation and written quote are free, with no obligation. The cylinder comes apart on the bench, every seal surface is measured, and you get a written quote showing what needs replacing and what can be reused, honed, or re-chromed. Nothing is rebuilt until you approve the number, and the rebuilt cylinder is pressure-tested before it ships back.