Francis Metal Fab and Main Street Motorsport, LLC is a private company with a multi focus. Welding and fabrication services for the military as well as a motorsports division providing a variety of fabrication services for vintage racers.
Steve's fabrication trade started in 1974 as a tractor-trailer mechanic in Detroit Michigan. From there he moved into custom built automated material handling systems for the automotive industry. The Francis family later won a contract from General Motors to build 900 feet of phosphate e-coat dip tanks at the then new GM "Poletown" plant in Hamtramck Michigan. From there the heavy fabrication turned lighter with the TIG welding of industrial electric heating elements made of nickel-chrome and other exotic refractory metals. With the heli-arc experience Steve landed a job in suburban Washington DC as pipe fitting/welder for a military contractor building hyperbaric chambers for the US Navy. This required an ASME Section 9 of Boiler & Pressure Code certification (i.e. tubing and pipe) and non destructive crack testing. Today alongside Seven North Industries we are building portable oil filtration rigs for the US Navy and US Army. All work is manufactured in the USA.
