Lathe & Tooling

[adampaskowitz]

We had a purchasing process go haywire. We ordered a very nice pair of Haas machines - a toolroom mill and lathe, along with all necessary tooling. Unfortunately, only the lathe was ordered properly, and now we have to buy the tooling piece by piece, which is something nobody on the team knows anything about. Any suggestions on which tools & holders are most frequently used in FIRST? For those teams with lathes, how have they helped you ? What types of parts have they enabled you to make that otherwise would have been difficult?