[Swampdude]

Last year at UCF we needed to do some grinding, and did it outside away from everything using an extension cord. We were shut down, and had to use a hand file for a mind and hand numbing hour - which a grinder would have completed in a minute.
Perhaps they could let us pick an area outside and run some extension cords / power strips etc. and let us do it out and away from the pits. BYOT but know that area is designated for "hazardous operations". Then at the enterance of that you could do your safety check on the people coming to do the work.
The backlash of this rule is detrimental, so please give us this one, and quickly cuz were packing those tools today!

BTW the grinding we needed to do required it to be done "on" the Bot, so dropping off a part wouldn't work. A machine shop drop off (in our case) would mean missing matches while the "Bot" is in line.