Need some recommendations for tooling

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

I recommended buy the lathe.

In parallel, reach out to local machine shops and find a sponsor to make your rails/plates/whatever other fancy, mostly flat custom parts you think you need.

The sponsor will be able to make your custom flat parts better than you will (maybe even faster!), and it doesn't cost any money to pick up the phone book and start calling local shops!

-Mike

We have a waterjet sponsor with a very nice machine. He had made a few really high tolerance Parts. But, he doesn't seem to be too happy to do work for us and we are just not that comfortable asking him to cut stuff for us.

In the end we are buying the nicer lathe and the nicer router but forgetting breaching for the most part.

This lathe better be useful