A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American Manufacturing

Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by micaksica on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @04:49PM (#13179975)

It doesn't take years to learn how to use expensive machinery. There's a bunch of stuff you can touch at TechShop - and potentially break - with a few-hour class and a review that you actually know how to use the thing.

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Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by akiselev on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @05:06PM (#13180084)

Techshop is a hacker space, not a commercial machine shop. A machinist with a few hours training could bankrupt the average manufacturer within a matter of days, if not hours.

Based on my experience, equipment at Techshop is, on average, an order of magnitude or two cheaper and a decade or two older than what you'd see at a commercial manufacturer.

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Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by themaninthedark on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @09:46PM (#13181958)

It looks like TechShop uses Tormach machines, the Pcnc 1100 starts at 8,412.00 a Haas MiniMill starts at 35,000.00

Both of these are small machines. Larger machines can easily be over 100,000.00

You want your large machines to always be working, that means you want someone who can set it up right and fast. That takes experience.

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