[jimwick]

This thread is a real eye-opener for me. There's a world out there we obviously don't know much about. The annual budget for our team is about $8,000. We bought a Bridgeport for $1,100, an old lathe for $175, got most of our tools by begging.

This is not intended as a hostile comment. We have had to learn to work with what we've got, and have been pretty successful; we were in the top 8 at the GSR.

But it's always interesting to see how others are doing it.