pic: machines

[briholton]

what i would give for a mill, a lathe, a big drill press. we have a donated (by me) 100 dollar drill press and some hand tools. Oh, but we do have a 9.6 V dewalt drill! It's a bit difficult to build without good tooling.....

[sanddrag]

For big tools we only have a big RIGID floor drill press and a big Dewalt Compount Mitre saw and a smaller Dewalt Compound mitre saw, a bench grinder, and a combo belt/disk sander.

But, we have access to a machine shop with:
-6 bridgeport mills and 6 lathes, a few equipped with digital readout
-A HAAS VF-4 710 ipm 20 HP CNC mill with 4th axis (you can make full size car wheels in this thing)
-One HAAS VF-2 CNC mill with 4th axis (soon getting another VF-2)
-A HAAS CNC Lathe
-A large verticle band saw
-A large horizontal bandsaw
-A large press
-Many large grinders including a precision surface grinder

Also, we have access to a full welding shop that does both aluminum and steel and professional welder guy.

Last, we have someone with full sheetmetal fabrication facilites available to make us stuff.

So, we are pretty set with our tools. I wish we had our own mill and lathe but they are expensive and cost a lot and the college where the machine shop is, is only 8 minutes (driving) away from us.

[sanddrag]

We just got some pics up on our site from last year at the machine shop.

If the picture was larger you'd see the two CNC mills off to the left. Also, the shop was TWICE this size in 2002 before it got downsized and half of it got turned into a computer lab.

[Marygrace]

We have a mill/lathe. LOL, im to impatient to use it. It takes to long, my favorite machines are the grinder and horizontal band saw. They are the easiest.