Wish List

Asmbly is always interested in acquiring quality tools and machinery for use by its members. This page includes a selection of our priorities.

If you own one of these machines and would be interested in donating or hosting it at Asmbly for members to use, please email workshop@asmbly.org for more information. As a rule, Asmbly accepts hosting or donation of working, ready-to-use equipment. If you have a candidate machine that needs some attention before use, we may be able to arrange volunteer support for repairs prior to or concurrent with transfer to Asmbly.

Wood Shop

• A >20" helical-head planer: eg Laguna PX|22, Powermatic 201HH, or Ironwood P600. We had a nice jointer upgrade last year; one of these days we'll want to upgrade our planer to a similar league.

• A large tilting-head scroll saw: eg Excalibur 21. We have a couple small consumer-grade scroll saws but it can be hard to control a workpiece on a tilted table, and flat they're mostly redundant to the big lasers. A tilting-head saw can make cuts that would be very difficult otherwise. (We'll need two or more matching machines if we get a scroll saw class going.)

• Two more Laguna Revo 12|16 variable-speed midi lathes. Our woodturning classes are always popular and expanding our lathe fleet will allow us to accommodate more students.

Metal Shop

• A metal-cutting handheld circular saw: eg Milwaukee or Makita. These are really useful for making clean cuts in plate without breaking out the fiber laser.

• A portable bandsaw: eg Milwaukee or Wen. Comes in handy for random fabrication work, and is a lot easier to control than a sawzall.

• A big pedestal grinder with dust collection: eg Jet IBG-12 with stand. Our bench grinders are all smallish and messy. An upgrade would solve both problems.

• Mobile gantry crane, at least 1000lbs capacity. Electric hoist and lifting magnet definitely a plus but perhaps not strictly necessary. This would come in handy for a bunch of applications, but will be needed soon for a single operator to load material in the fiber laser.

• A sheet metal corner notcher: eg Jet HN-16N. We'd definitely want a benchtop model that can be stored on a shelf or under a bench when not in use.

Electronics Lab

We are currently renovating our electronics lab to bring our outdated equipment up-to-date. Our full wish list for this renovation can be seen on Digi-Key here and here. Below are a few of the larger items we are looking for.

• Two oscilloscopes, 100+ MHz, 4ch digital bench, eg Rigol MSO5104 Plus.
• Two or more good basic handheld RMS multimeters, eg Fluke 115

• Two or more power supplies 30V 5A with several outputs, eg Siglent SPD3303X.
• Benchtop LCR meter, eg Instek LCR-6100
• Another Thermaltronics TMT-9000 and supplies

We are not currently accepting donations for electronics consumables such as capacitors, resistors, transistors, ICs, etc.

Textiles

Our new textiles area is off to a great start, but there's a lot of specialty equipment that we'd love to offer our community.

• Two more Janone MOD-19s for introductory sewing classes
• A dressmaker's mannequin
• A steamer
• A self-threading serger, eg Juki MO-2000
• A longarm quilting machine with frame, eg Juki j350
• A vinyl cutter with modern software capable of contour cutting and reading registration marks, like this 34" LaserPoint 3 ARMS Contour Cut Vinyl Cutter

General Operations

There are a few bits and bobs we need for day-to-day operations of the space

• K-Cups of any variety will always get used
• A color laser MFP (eg HP M480f or Canon MF743Cdw) would also be put to good use. We print a lot of class materials and having color would be helpful.