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MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT

Engineering/Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing

  • EzCam used for CNC operations
  • Variety of software for design applications

Machining Equipment:

  • Two Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) milling machines

  • Two Electrostatic Discharge (spark erosion) Machines (EDM),
    one traveling wire EDM with 10x15x15 inch capacity, and one
    ram-type (sinker) EDM with 8x8x12 inch capacity.


  • Seven vertical milling machines with capabilities form 250 to 700
    pounds and travels from 28 to 41 inches, most with digital
    positioning (0.0005 inch resolution)

  • Two jig boring machines with capabilities to 600 pounds and
    positional accuracies to 0.0001 inch.

  • Horizontal boring mill with a capacity of 1500 pounds,
    36 x 36 x 48 inches travels, and 0.0005 inch resolution

  • Seven tool room or engine lathes with capacities from 10 x 18
    inches up to 50 x 120 inches, including one lathe equipped for
    contouring by servo-tracer

  • Sheet metal fabrication equipment including power and manual
    shears and brakes, rolls and punches



  • Horizontal power band saw, 12 x 12 inch capacity

  • Two vertical band saws 18 and 28 inch capacity (one equipped
    with hyd. feed) and Plate shear rated 3/8 mild steel x 72 inch

  • Diamond abrasive cut-off saw
  • Universal tool room grinder
  • Surface grinder, 18 x 6 inch travels
  • Power tapping station #4 to 9/16 capacity
  • Five drill presses, from .5 to 5 hp., including a 30 inch
    radial-arm drill with tapping rated 3 inch diameter mild steel
  • Miscellaneous woodworking, sanding and grinding equipment

Welding Equipment:

 
  • Separate shop equipped for TIG (GTAW), MIG (GMAW),
    stick (SMAW) and Oxy-Acetylene welding, gas and plasma
    cutting, soldering and brazing
  • Leyboldt-Heraeus High Vacuum Leak Detector

Heat Treating:

  • Two heat treating furnaces, one capable of wet or dry Hyrogen
    or inert gas annealing, plus a large stress relieving oven for
    aluminum or plastic parts

 

Inspection Equipment:

  • Digital Height Gage - 18 inch capacity with
    .0001/.001 mm resolution
 
  • 4 x 5 foot laboratory grade Surface Plate
  • Micro-inch Comparators
  • Dimensional Standards traceable to NIST
  • 18 inch Optical Comparator (shadowgraph) - 10 to 100x
  • Electronic Surface Roughness Gauge - 1 to 100 micro inch
  • .0002 resolution bore gauge to 4.5 inch diameter
  • Toolmaker's microscope
  • Wilson Hardness Tester (Rockwell B,C)


The MDG will occasionally surplus equipment to make room for new equipment or to reorganize. When this occurs we are required to follow the University's guidelines, thus any such equipment will be disposed of through Terrapin Trader. It is expected that most of these will be "Bid items," so please feel free to peruse their website.

 

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