About the Shop:
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| Introducing
machinists, left to right:
Dennis Huelsman, Todd Hardt, Tony Biondo |
The Physics Department Machine
Shop is a technical support facility whose primary function
is to provide technical assistance to the students, faculty, researchers, and administration.
The Shop's duties include manufacture, updating, and maintenance of scientific teaching apparatus
for the undergraduate and advanced labs located in Crow Hall.
It is also responsible for contribution to design and construction
of state-of-the-art research projects and related equipment
for the experimentalist groups located in the adjoining Arthur
Holly Compton Laboratory of Physics.
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Equipment:
The Physics Machine Shop has a
wide assortment of conventional machine tools as well as welding,
sheet metal, and woodworking equipment. It's versatile complement
of tools and technician skills make it capable of fulfilling
almost any manufacturing demands placed upon it by researchers
and engineers. Though the shop is primarily a prototyping facility
it will soon be receiving it's first computerized machine tool
which will expand the scope of machining options available
to project designers.
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(1) Bridgeport Mill - series 1
(1) Bridgeport Mill - series 2
(1) Cincinnati Mill
(1) Brown and Sharp Horizontal Mill
(4) Cincinnati Lathes (ranging in swing from 12" to 26" and C-C
of 12" to 73")
(1) Hardinge High Precision Lathe
(1) South Bend Collet Lathe
(1) Johansson Radial Drill
(1) Buffalo Bench Drill Press
(1) Norton Shaper
(1) Do-All Bandsaw
(1) Wells Cut-off Saw
(1) Tool & Cutter Grinder
(1) Miniature Sheet metal Slip Roll
(1) Miniature Shear
(1) Norton Hydraulic Surface Grinder
(1) DoAll Manual Surface Grinder
Our shop service is available
to non-profit organizations at a current rate of $40 per hour. Availability
based on shop load. W.U. Physics projects must be given priority.
Washington
University
Campus Box 1105
Department of Physics
c/o Todd Hardt
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis , MO. 63130 |
Phone
: ( 314 ) 935-6209
Fax : ( 314 ) 935-6219
e-mail
Physics Shop
Hours Mon. - Fri. 7AM to 3PM CST
U.S.A. |
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