The Research Machine Shop makes makes use of conventional tools, including both horizontal and vertical milling machines, grinders, presses, cutoff saws, and a full range of hand tools.

• Vertical milling machines equipped with digital readouts
• Horizontal milling machine
• Engine lathes with turning capacities up to 18" in diameter with digital readouts
• Surface and cylindrical grinders (diamond wheels available for both)
• Drill presses, cutoff saws and a full range of hand tools
• Fifty-ton hydraulic press
• Cabinet-type sand blaster
• Six-foot brake
• Four-foot hydraulic shear