This is the lathe area on the Freshman/Sophomore side of the shop. Seen
here are eleven South Bend lathes. in the lower left corner you can just
the our shop supervisor, the world famous, BOB the Shop Rat.The Ellis Tech Machine Shop If you are interested in getting parts made please keep in mind that all our work is student made and speed is not one of our strong points. Allow plenty of time! We will do our best but due to the schedule of the shop cycle there is not always students available to do projects.
Next door to our shop is the Mechanical Drawing shop and that instructor has expressed an interest in participating in the work. If you have a sketch that needs to be redrawn in CAD format probably that shop can help.
This is the lathe area on the Freshman/Sophomore side of the shop. Seen
here are eleven South Bend lathes. in the lower left corner you can just
the our shop supervisor, the world famous, BOB the Shop Rat.
On the F/S side of the shop we have four Bridgeport millers, tow of which are
retrofitted with Southwestern Industries Proto-Trak 2 axis CNC units.
This is our newest machine. So new that as of this date it is waiting to
be wired up and set up for operation. We expect the tech to be in on
Wednesday Feb 26 to do the set up. This is a full up 3 axis CNC vertical
mill.
This Brown and Sharpe horizontal mill may be an old timer but it can still take
a heavy cut in most any material.
This is our CNC lathe. Also from SWI it can be conversationally programmed
at the machine or parts can be drawn in Master Cam or AutoCad and tool pathed
for the machine.
We have four large conventional LeBlond lathes
These two surface grinders plus one that is not seen here round out the
equipment.