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Re: Lathes and Mills
FWIT..
if you can not buy the cow, then maybe you can rent it.. or at least have access to it until you can afford it. Greatly overlooked resources for manufacturing are COMMUNITY COLLEGES or TECHNICAL SCHOOLS in your area.
Teams in the Los Angeles South Bay area [207, 294, 330, 597, 687, 911, 973, 2150, 2637... I see a couple World Champs listed there...] have utilized El Camino College and its Machine Tool Tech program to gain access to both conventional and CNC equipment [mills, lathes, panel routers, EDM machines, grinders... etc.]. Yes, high school kids [and mentors] can enroll in these colleges and have access to their resources. As your team grows and can afford good/ better equipment/machinery, you can rely less and less on the college resources.
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