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@Cory, ill look at purchasing a compressor of that type.

@Protoserge, we will probably purchase a compound miter saw with non ferrous blade as we wont be doing any steel cuts.

@InFlight, We will have multiple mentors (college and professional) trained on these machine tools, training the students wont take much time and we will have from August till December to do it. Most of the robotics kids on our 16-17 roster will be taking our robotics and engineering 2 course which will have a shop aspect attached (Use of the milling machines, lathe, CNC etc.).

As it stands we will offer 5 robotics courses in the fall, 6th grade (LEGO), 7th grade(VEX IQ), 8th grade(VEX), 9-11th Engineering and Robotics 1 (FTC), 10-12th Engineering and Robotics 2 (FRC Final project). The additional small machines will be primarily used to complete in class projects and to make small parts for FRC.

We have two dial indicators for the mills and lathe. Yes our mills are R8.