Wheelman,
A machine shop with 15 machinists?
Wow. We usually do all the machining our selves at the college. I forgot to mention there is this really cool guy named Ross who owns a machine shop nearby and he has helped us out in crunch-time or with some difficult parts. There's also a cool guy named Spence at the college who works for HiTech Products designing and making CNC Harley parts and he helps us with the manual machines as well as the CNC.
Jnadke,
Plasma cutter-s?? Like more than 1 ??
Geez. The time those must save to cut steel or curved shapes or just making all the field parts a little more charred.
We don't even have one of them, heck, we don't even have a bandsaw of our own. I doubt we will be getting any new tools in the near future though because we want to enter 2 regionals and all the money we have so far is about $2k.
Everyone,
It seems like you don't get much monetary support from your school. We get the couple grand that we do because robotics is like our school's sports team since there aren't any other teams.
With so little money from your hosting school, how do you all do it? There are a couple of teams I know who go to all the regionals and the nats. Where does all the funding come from for you all?
What supply of tools does your team have?
Brought from home, owned by the team, borrowed, etc???
We have our own full set of tools that the team owns. And a gian red Husky tool chest to put them all in
and there still isn't enough room for them all. We have like the world's largest socket set, cordless drill, high power corded drill, the sander and drill press, bench grinder, palm sander, circular saw, miter saw x2, wire strippers, crimpers, drill bits giant set, etc, etc, etc. We are pretty well stocked in that department. How about your team?