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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
The SBPLI Long Island regional iirc has a pretty nice machine shop on a trailer. I believe it is sponsored by FESTO who has a HQ local to us
The NYC regional has a very nice machine shop they set up inside the venue. It is fairly large and supplied by Con Edison every year.
I can not find a picture of either but both do some solid work. Neither of them however allow students to work iirc.
There is a lot of iirc as I have never actually used any of the machine shops at our regionals. A team I work closely with did use one at the NYC regional to cut igus sliders and the cut was very very clean.
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This is fairly typical SOP for these shop set ups. Sadly we live in a hugely litigious society these days. I've managed to get to know the 2 NASA machine shop guys that operate in our region and talk enough shop to gain their trust. To the point they are willing to let me use their stuff in the trailer and/or borrow tools. It's been very useful at times. It makes me feel better when I show up and there is a line people and both guys are busy, I can do something real quick when I will not be in the way and I'm not taking time away from other teams.
Pro Tip: Get really good at doing technical drawings by hand(really nail the dimensioning and tolerance call-outs), the shop guys will be able to make your part quicker and easier. And they will really appreciate it. You can dimension a really bad sketch really well and still convey the proper info very clearly.