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Originally Posted by bcampbell
This is what our shop looks like. The pictures are from last year and dont include the new computers we added as well as a CNC router. For those that are interested I included our shop layout PDF that shows the entire shop layout
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Hardinge HLV-H Toolroom lathe. I am sufficiently jealous, those are wondrous pieces of machinery.
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Originally Posted by SenorZ
But our school just put in a $600K artificial turf field, so the money will eventually trickle down to us.
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This... just makes me so sad inside.
I'm going to go cry now.
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Originally Posted by BMiller2559
Yes I would imagine that there are a lot of us, probably most of us, who could never envision anything remotely like this. We have a 15' x 25' space next to the masonry shop with a chop saw and a table top drill press and assorted hand tools. The big addition this year was the installation of windows in the wall separating the shops to keep the cement dust out, or at least less, of our shop. There have been window holes since the space was carved out several years ago, but no windows.
However, a couple of blue banners and a collection of medals do tend to brighten up the space.
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I've been firmly in this position before. 1678 has only had good facilities for the last 2 years. Prior to that we came up with whatever solutions we could.
2005-2006 seasons we worked in a computer lab and the hallway outside it with the networking server room as storage.
2007-2008 seasons we worked out of a portable classroom(which still had to be used as a classroom) and used our old robot crate as a storage closet.
2009-2013 seasons we worked out of a portable classroom and a 20' shipping container for storage and "shop" space. Starting
2011 we also had half of another 20' container for extra storage space as well.
2014 season we moved a Bridgeport into our shop container. We had the school put a 3-phase outlet in the portable classroom and wired the container with 4 circuits(3-phase to the mill, 1 for the lights, 1 for north outlets, 1 for south outlets) split off the 3 phases to hook up with a 75' 3-phase extension cable.
2015 season we moved our shop/build/practice space into a dedicated classroom, had another room for the other things we do, and a shipping container for storage.
2016 season we turned the shop/build/practice room into just our shop and assembly space. We also got to move into the 2 other attached rooms on the same building block. The small middle room became our Business&Media room. The really large room is now a robotics classroom with room for a set up half field to practice driving. It used to be the old-old music room so it has 2 sets of really deep cabinets the full room height and width. There are also 7 smaller side rooms we use for various purposes, one is for our programming team, one for electrical, one for our 3D printer and plotter, 3 for storage, and one is a kitchen with a washer/dryer and a 2 burner electric stove.
It's a slow process that takes a lot of effort and diplomacy, but don't give up on it.