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Originally Posted by tsaksa
Why the interest though? Are there many teams with no access to a lathe currently? Is size a cost the limiting factor?
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My team has no lathe.
We do not have the money, nor the space for it. On top of that, we would not know how to use one to its full potential, as out robots are mostly COTS and aluminum extrusion, so we do not feel the need to get a lathe, we prefer to spend the money we do have on other tools.
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