Cold Metals Wishlist
Tools members would like to see in the cold metals area.
Low ticket items
- Parts washer (solvent type)
- Ultrasonic parts washer
- Slip roller
- Stomp shear
- Cold cut saw
- dimple dies, knock out punches (could be hot metals or cold)
- better selection of metric taps and dies
- Mag base drill
- Drill bits
- Common sizes
- Metric
- Left hand
- Screw extractors
- 1/2" Shoulder nuts for work clamping
Big ticket items
- Working CNC mill/vmc (yes there is a working group trying to make the bridgeport go a tormach PCNC 700 with all the bells and whistles would be ~$20k)
- CNC Lathe (Tormach ready to go is ~$17k)