Need some recommendations for tooling

[Steven Smith]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

This lathe better be useful

One thing I'd love to see, keep telling myself I'll make time to do, and never find it high enough on my priority list... is to make some videos showing "how we work". Specifically, what tools we use for what jobs in the shop, and what problems you can solve with those tools.

Some of those (<10% as a wild guess) require an engineer's level of knowledge to explain, but 90%+ of it is just "good shop practice" by good teams.

As far of what you are doing with F4, perhaps you could do a segment where students explain how their teams use tools. Both from the "top end teams" with high levels of machining resources, to explain what problems you can solve with the right tool, as well as mid tier teams that might have clever work-arounds to get good results out of cheaper tools.

As a start, you could use it as a way to get people to help explain the many uses of a lathe in FRC