Our shop maintains the student machine shop. This modern facility (for use by Physics/Astronomy Department affiliated persons) is a complete machine shop.  The student machine shop is equipped with mills, lathes, saws, grinders and gas welding equipment as well as all the necessary hand tools and measurement equipment.  The student machine shop is for individuals who wish to complete their own research or teaching projects or learn the basics of machine tool safety and operation.  For those students taking Tom P.'s introduction to the student shop, his handout is available HERE.

How to Start Using the Student Machine Shop

    A training course (free of charge) is offered twice per year and is required before permission is granted to use the student machine shop facilities.  The course covers both the theory and "hands-on" learning of machine tool cutting operations such as milling, drilling, turning, surfacing, threading and sawing.  In addition, the course covers many secondary operations such as gas welding/soldering.  The course especially emphasizes machine shop safety.  See your student representative to the shop committee for course offering times and dates.

Inside The Student Machine Shop

A view of the student machine shop looking north

Tools of the Trade

Machine Tools of the Student Machine Shop

		Clausing Chuck Lathe (left), Metal-Cutting Bandsaw (right), Wood Cutting Bandsaw (Not Shown)
Two Variable-Speed Bridgeport Vertical Milling Machines
Clausing Collette Lathe (left), Drill Press (Right)		Grinders and Sanders