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Re: Shop Tools, Hand Tools, HELP?

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Originally Posted by F22Rapture View Post
It might be too much for most teams to buy one, but I'd like to point out that a lot of local community colleges have one, often much larger and more expensive higher-quality ones. Our local CC has one which we will hopefully have access to this year, and it's far higher quality than what we could buy on our own.
A great off-season activity is to build your own. http://www.reprap.org/wiki/RepRap We're in the process of building our 2nd. It costs about $600 to build one from scratch using linear bearings. The one we have draws a crowd at events. Once you have one, you can use it to print parts for more.
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