Cold Metals Wishlist

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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)