Need some recommendations for tooling

[Monochron]

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

I could see a lathe being more useful if you have found a sponsor for milling with fast turn around times. Not sure how fast Sperkowsky's team gets part, but for us was a ~3 week turn around time for 6 plates this past season. At that kind of speed, parallelizing by CNCing additional parts ourselves could create a distinct advantage for us.