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Re: Need some recommendations for tooling

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Originally Posted by RoboChair View Post
1. Table saws are good, very useful and you have selected a reasonable price point. Remember that carbide blades will cut aluminum with great care.

2. I have no recommendations for you at that price range really, I have heard good things about the X-carve and shapeco and those should be in the range you need. One of them 2 has full cad of the machine free to download so you could get the minimum and beef it up and/or make another with the first.

3. A nice arbor press in that range will be around 400-700, plus 200 for the broach. The cost of entry sucks but a good arbor press is a very useful tool for FRC teams even more so when paired with a lathe and mill.

4. The Harbor Freight one will be enough to start you, I have a few upgrades to suggest.
Buy some digital scales for the X and Y axis (and your mill) here and here
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I would suggest a set of cutters like this as well

5. Harbor freight has a 1 inch belt sander for around $50, not fantastic but it helps.

Shars.com
littlemachineshop.com
micromark.com

All those sites have good stuff for cheap, let me know if there is anything in particular you are still looking for.

EDIT: Chris is me has a good point about the lathe
This is very helpful thank you.

Also, do you have any particular recommendation for the arbor press. Not to sure what I am looking at and how to figure out which one is better.

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