The machine shop is equipped with not only standard metal-working equiptment, but also a full wood-shop and a welding shop. We also have the capabilities of a small foundry, and the advantage of a numerically controlled milling machine for more complex tasks.  We have two variable-speed drill presses suitable for all materials, three vertical bandsaws and one horizontal heavy-duty bandsaw. There are several bending machines, a shear for sheet metals and three milling machines, one connected to computer controls. Three lathes are operational, with a brand-new lathe still in its shipping crate waiting for rewiring.  With this equipment, we are able to work materials ranging from plastic, thru wood and softer metals like brass and aluminum, up to hardened steels.

     For the Student Rocket Project we work in mostly Alumium and some steel. But for the project that we are currently working on we have branched into the foundry capabilities by making a model for the ambilical block and poured this mold with alumium. The wood shop was used to produce the female mold for the fiberglass nose cone. We also are learning from a graduate student how to do fiberglass work.

     Anything that can be thought of can almost all be made down in the Duckering machine shop. The only limitations that we have run up against is that object with an eight inch diameters and longer then four feet we have to either contract out to a bigger machine shop, this is because the machines were not made to take that large of work piece. The only things that we have found that we could not do ourselves we the payload tube and the boatail. The boattail is the part that connects the
rocket motor to the payload tube.