[AR] Re: Your Next/Dream Rocket Tool Purchase?
- From: Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:43:26 +0000
On 19/03/15 04:07, Ray Rocket (Redacted sender ar0cketman@xxxxxxxxx for
DMARC) wrote:
What tools do you find most useful for rocket fabrication?
Particularly interested in tools for larger scale work, up to
microlauncher sizes. What would _you_ like in your dream shop?
How big is a microlauncher?
On my wish or to-buy lists, and also suggested:
More storage space.
Bandsaw vertical.
A good TIG welder with three or more large pure Argon cylinders; you can
now do 'most all of the bigger bits, and not worry about running out of
gas.
A Jig Borer is handy for some smaller bits like end or injector plates
(I have a cnc-converted BCA jig borer, but I want a manual one as well).
Bigger heavier manual lathe. The biggest manual lathe is never really
big and heavy enough. The biggest manual milling machine could be bigger
and heavier too ...
If you are going CNC, pro design /cam software. Ouch. But afaics good
cheap-or-free easy-to-use full-3D software doesn't exist.
What pretty much everyone will need:
[ hand tools, electric hand tools (drills, screwdrivers, dremels etc),
benches, vices, more benches ]
[ bench drill(s), wheel grinder/linisher ]
[ bandsaw horizontal and/or vertical ]
[ lathe(s), milling machine(s); tooling for these will double their
initial price ]
[ fittings eg screws and nuts, washers, o-rings, pipe fittings ]
[ more storage space!!! ]
[ electronics bench ]
Some things you may or may not need, depending on how you plan to do things:
[ tube benders, flarers, threaders ]
[ sheet metal machines (bending rollers, bead bending machine, arbor
press etc) ]
[ EDM, ECM, electroforming machines }
[ furnaces, ovens ]
[ hydraulic press ]
[ surface grinder ]
[ tool grinder ]
[ stick, mig, oxy-fuel, spot, roll, stir etc welders; brazing
torches/ovens/furnaces ]
[ metal casting shop ]
[ fibre winding machines, curing ovens ]
[ 3d printer ]
[ very large cnc lathe for tanks?
and so on ..
-- Peter Fairbrother
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