Thread: Recommended Tools and Machinery for Your Team's Machine Shop
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Re: Machinery in Machine Shops
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Originally Posted by roystur44 View Post
Scotchman Cold Saw
Bridgeport Knee Mill with DRE
Rotary table for the knee mill
V blocks
100 gallon compressor
Pneumatic pop rivet gun
Makerbot 3D printer
Jett Lathe with DRE
Shop Vac
Drill press
Pneumatic rivnut gun
Notcher
4 foot metal shear
4 foot Electric press brake
press brake dies V and gooseneck
Tig Welder
Welding table
Grinders
Band Saw
Reamers
Arbor press
Hex broaching tools
Haas CNC Mini Mill with a indexer $$$
Gibbs Cam
SolidWorks
Fabricam
If you had the big bucks a Mazak 2000 watt laser cutter.
This sums up my wish list very nicely....

But it really depends on what kinda space/utilities you have (3 phrase 220v anyone?).
As well as what your team can afford and know how to use.

Also a big part of it is designing for what you mean. Teams that have only laser/water jet do a lot of a sheet metal, teams that have cnc do milled box/billet, teams that don't have any cnc design for manual milling only. (very generalized) So being able to design for what you have a is a big key, getting some copies of solid works or inventor and then training would probably be something to do first...
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