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How important is a machine shop?
Posted by bill whitley at 05/15/2001 4:34 PM EST


Student on team #70, Auto City Bandits, from Powers Catholic High School and Kettering University.



How important do you think a machine shop is? What tools do you think are necessary to build a competitive robot? Can you do it w/o a lathe? a mill? welding facilities? wireEDM? Where do you draw the line between a necessity and a need? Can a compedative robot be built only from hand tools?

My personal opinion is that you need at least a mill to build a compedtitive robot. However, we've never had much access to a lathe or welding. And no access to wireEDM or CNC or any fun stuff like that. Maybe I dont know what I'm missing.

Bill Whitley


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