Jim Hall Design and Prototyping Lab

Hand Tools

A complete assortment of hand tools, ranging from hammers to adjustable wrenches, and precision measuring tools is available on each student workstation. In addition to these tools, a fully equipped tool room has larger and more unique hand tools. Many of these tools are available for check out. Check out is limited to 24 hours.

Machine Tools

Manual tools

• 3 Southbend lathes - 8" swing
• Kerry lathe - 10" swing
• Sheldon lathe - 10" swing
• Le Blond lathe - 10" swing
• Sidney lathe - 13" swing
• Promaster lathe - 10" swing
• 2 tree vertical mills
• 3 Bridgeport type vertical millsRambaudi vertical mill
• Cincinnatti vertical mill
• DoAll band saw
• Johnson horizontal band saw

Automated tools

• Fadal VCM 15 vertical machine center
  • X axis travel - 22"
  • Y axis travel - 16"
  • Z axis travel - 20"
    
• Fourth rotary axis
• 16 tool automated tool changer
• 15 horsepower 5000 rpm
• Bridgeport/Romy CNC lathe
  
  • Distance between center - 40"
  • Swing over bed - 17"
  • Dwing over cross slide - 8"
  • Cross-slide (X) trave - l 8.6"
  • Longitudinal (Z) travel - 40"
  • 10 horsepower
    
• Universal ILS9 laser cutter
• Stratasys FDM360 rapid prototyping machine
• Levin precision lathes
• Servo high speed micro drill
• MillRight and Acer vertical milling machines

Materials and Fasteners

Various sizes of aluminum, steel, stainless steel, copper, brass, and plastics are available in the shop in limited supply. Most all common sizes and types of fasteners are available. A small assortment of metric fasteners is also available. These materials are for use by the students when a small quick job must be completed. For larger quantities of materials and fasteners, it is requested that the materials be purchased from either on-campus stores, or through one of the many catalogs that are available in the shop