I can suggest 2 shops in the Victoria area.

for metal fabrication, welding etc (but they have no machine shop
capacity as such) try Associated Sheet Metal, on Kirkpatrick Crescent.
They do great stainless fabrication, the welding and bending is top
notch.

Close by, on the same road, is Vector Machining. A very good machine
shop, cnc and hand operated machines. As a plus, a few of the
machinists have very nice Ducatis :)

Another resource I have used is a guy named Dave Fair, who works out of
his own garage. He does excellent aluminium welding (does a good
business on bike and motorcycle repair). He is the process of moving
house right now so I can't give you a contact number as yet.

The above mentioned take real pride in their work.

Alistair
'82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/

On 4-Oct-05, at 8:36 AM, Loren Busch wrote:

Several have suggested finding a local machinist to do the work you
need and
I agree for all the reasons mentioned. BUT I don't see any suggestions.
Probably of great value to the list would be members providing the
names and
contact information for local machine shops that they have found in
their
area, shops that you can work with to get things done. Anyone with
suggestions our there?