Pictures of your shop.

[coastertrav]

Just thought it would be interesting to see what other teams have to work with.

We are lucky to have our own building just outside the main campus over near research park. We have an office, large middle bay with two bay doors, machine room, and jig/welding room. We are down a little dead end road, and never really bother anyone down here, but the down side is the fact that most people on campus don't know we exist.

From the outside.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a318/coastertrav/FSAE/DSC_2415.jpg

Middle bay.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a318/coastertrav/DSC_6163.jpg

Machine room.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a318/coastertrav/FSAE/DSC_0551.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a318/coastertrav/FSAE/DSC_0552.jpg

Jig/Welding room.

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs257.snc1/10427_187859889202_691079202_3982778_1707997_n.jpg

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww46/knights-racing/5-4-09/DSC_3496.jpg

[d.madnick]

You can check out ours here:

http://unh.edu/fsae/videofeed.html

[coastertrav]

Originally posted by d.madnick:
You can check out ours here:

http://unh.edu/fsae/videofeed.html

That is pretty slick. I've been wanting to get a webcam in our shop for awhile now, we really need to get a website up first though.

[Muad'Dib]

Wow UCF you guys have a ton of space. I'm really jealous.

[Macros]

and a coke machine!

[coastertrav]

Originally posted by Muad'Dib:
Wow UCF you guys have a ton of space. I'm really jealous.

We do feel really lucky to have our own space and machine shop, if only we could get the funding and act together enough to produce some competitive cars. Hopefully this year and next will be different.

[mayuri]

ohh rich people http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
own office,lots of space,coke machine!!!
great going.
BEST DAMN GARAGE ON CAMPUS!!!

[kapps]

Originally posted by mayuri:
ohh rich people http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
own office,lots of space,coke machine!!!
great going.
BEST DAMN GARAGE ON CAMPUS!!!

Lots of hard work from previous teams to get moved into that shop and get the equipment purchased/donated. That happened around 10 years ago when Formula was just starting up here.

[coastertrav]

So no one else ever takes pictures of where they work? Enough talk about our shop, lets see yours.

[mumbles]

I will post some pictures when I get back to campus Sunday or Monday. I feel very fortunate having the facilities that we have

[alumasteel]

The main machining area:

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/FSAE01029.jpg

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/FSAE01030.jpg

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/FSAE01028.jpg

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/DSC00602.jpg

The high-bay area (the Bridgeport has been replaced with a 3-axis Haas CNC):

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/FSAE01024.jpg

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/FSAE01027.jpg

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/FSAE01026.jpg

The "SAE Room":

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/DSC00605.jpg

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/DSC00606.jpg

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/DSC00607.jpg

http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/meadorsp/Miami%20Shop/DSC00608.jpg

[Andy K]

I'll see if we can post one of our shop at the moment... but it will only serve as a 'before' shot. We just received a large donation to improve our facilities including new dynos etc. to be completed by March. We'll have some hurdles building the car while the renovations are taking place, but we may set up a cam to do a time-lapse video in the end.

I'm genuinely excited about the next 3-4 years for our SAE teams.

[JonMW]

This is the shop that we have had for the past year. Not sure how long we will be able to keep it, the building was scheduled for demolition this fall but it looks like we can stay for another year.

The building is at the entrance of the campus, still not a lot of people know that we have our shop there.

From the outside

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/JonMW/IMG_0233.jpg

The first room, right now we have the third car sitting here and the fourth car hanging on the wall.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/JonMW/20091130154.jpg

If you go down the stairs into the second room. We have the fifth car and last year’s frame both waiting for a rebuild. This is also acting as our welding room.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/JonMW/20091130155.jpg

The third room acts as a sort of office and lunch room.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/JonMW/20091130156.jpg

We have a small storage room behind the black wall with some tires and some metal.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/JonMW/20091130158.jpg

The fourth room is just more storage.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/JonMW/20091130159.jpg

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/JonMW/20091130160.jpg

We also have access to a machine shop with two manual mills and two manual lathes. There are also a 4-axis CNC lathe and a 3-axis CNC mill that we can use some times. The bad part is that it´s at the other side of campus so it takes about 15 min to walk there.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/JonMW/IMG_0204.jpg

[JonMW]

Post with pictures is pending approval

[MalcolmG]

we're pretty lucky in terms of the size of our workshop. We got relocated in 2007 and the building we got was formerly a student common room. It's 2 stories: upstairs is the office, electrons and an area that's not really ours but we use it for meetings and as a "quiet area"; and downstairs we have assembly, fabrication, welding, machining, composites room and engine room. The one thing it doesn't have that would be awesome is a shower. We had access to one at our old workshop, but these days we just smell bad instead.

When we first moved in:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/all4s/DSCN2494.jpg

Assembly area earlier this year (managed to find a home for most of the old cars since then)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/all4s/19082009001.jpg

Office. We've got lots of old computers with LCD screens because one of our electrons convinced the ECE department to give us the computers they were disposing of
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/all4s/DSCN3563.jpg

Where we keep the electrons:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/all4s/DSCN3564.jpg

Engine room:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/all4s/DSCN3570.jpg

Fabrication:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/all4s/DSCN3565.jpg

Machining room (there's a welding bay and a small grinding/sanding room to the left)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/all4s/DSCN3566.jpg

It's all pretty messy at the moment but that happens around this time of the year.

[coastertrav]

Dear god, that workspace is HUGE! (Both to Alumasteel and Malcolm G)

And Alumasteel, I believe we share the same Bridgeport.

[overdrive535]

you and about a million others, coastertrav;
those Bridgeport Series I's were built forever.

[coastertrav]

Originally posted by overdrive535:
you and about a million others, coastertrav;
those Bridgeport Series I's were built forever.

I can see why. They are good machines for what they are and seem to last forever. I know ours has seen some stuff, but still works fine.

[FStotal.com]

nice topic

here you can see some more FSAE workshops webcams (http://www.fstotal.com/teamwork/marketing/internet/226-webcam-behind-the-scenes)

[cjanota]

http://www.fstotal.com/videos/...ion-time-lapse-video (http://www.fstotal.com/videos/teams/208-university-of-illinois-formula-sae-chassis-fabrication-time-lapse-video)

[mech5496]

We are lucky enough to have our own "Formula room" since last year, which is the place all the design and assembly process takes place. We also have almost unlimited access to the schools' machine shop (actually the formula room is part of the machine shop). We also have a room for composite manufacturing and for storage purposes, but I don't have any pics of it right now. Anyway...

UoP2 car under maintenance

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0062.jpg

Perhaps the most used machine in the shop: Trumpf laser (really lucky to have one)

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0063.jpg

Two manual lathes

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0064.jpg

Manual milling machine

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0065.jpg

CNC milling macine....

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0068.jpg

...and her small sister...:P

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0069.jpg

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0072.jpg

Undergoing project http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0071.jpg

Formula room

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0080.jpg

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0079.jpg

"Design corner"

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0074-1.jpg

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0088.jpg

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0089.jpg

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0092.jpg

Assembly bench

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0079.jpg

Welding table

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0084.jpg

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0082.jpg

And something really necessary to any FSAE team

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0076.jpg

To spice things up a little bit...http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo295/mech5107/DSCI0075.jpg

[Wes Burk]

Oh what i'd give for a trumph...how did you land that?

[mech5107]

Most of the machinery outside the fs room is not property of the team, but they belong to the school's machine shop equipment.
The trumph is there way before the team was established.

[jm1495]

Anyone else notice the homage to Smokey Yunick in the first post? That flat bed laser would be nice to have. Trumpf also makes a nice tube laser.

[toomuchtodo]

jm1495, I'm glad someone else noticed the 'Best Damn Garage in Town' sign. I didn't want to say anything since that would reveal me as a Nascar fan, and start the taunting by others. But that guy was ahead of his time, and I didn't know that he holds 9 US patents...pretty cool.

[coastertrav]

Originally posted by toomuchtodo:
jm1495, I'm glad someone else noticed the 'Best Damn Garage in Town' sign. I didn't want to say anything since that would reveal me as a Nascar fan, and start the taunting by others. But that guy was ahead of his time, and I didn't know that he holds 9 US patents...pretty cool.

That's who started the whole shebang here on campus, and Doc (who is in charge of the building) does all his work on Nascar motors, and the effects of speed on manifold pressures.

We happen to have an old Daytona 500 1st place motor sitting in one of the corners collecting dust.

[toomuchtodo]

That is cool right there! You've got to get a picture of the motor up!!

[TorqueWrench]

Originally posted by toomuchtodo:
That is cool right there! You've got to get a picture of the motor up!!

+1

[kapps]

Not sure we should post that pic... our relationship with Doc hasn't exactly been a good one. He doesn't like us messing around in his areas of the shop. It took my sr design team quite a long time to prove to him that we weren't a bunch of idiots when we had to set the dyno up for our F4i. His stories are pretty legendary, though. Nascar (well, Winston Cup to him) was all about cheating and getting away with it. He can talk for hours without getting boring about all the things they used to do.

[RollingCamel]

As a startup team we still don't have a place, equipment or anything. We are going to rent a place outside then uni due to the unsuitable working hours in the university. We can't even apply for sponsored software such as Recardo Wave since our computer lab schedule is highly unstable especially near exams.

To sum up....we envy you guys... http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[BeunMan]

Nice to see how everyone works during the rest of the year. We usually only see you on events. To give you an impression how we live in Delft, here are some pictures.
For those of you who think we are lucky to have such a large amount of space: Yes we are, but it took years and lots of effort aquire the rooms and space we have now.

The pictures might be somewhat dark: The flashlight could not match the exterior light. You can see why in the last picture. It had something to do with a big white mess.

note: We share the hall with other teams like the Nuna (World Solar challenge team), Formula zero (Hydrogen Cart), Solarboat (Solar powered boat) and DARE (Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineers), though we are the largest team in there.

Main hall with milling machines, lathes etc. Shared space with other teams.
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx3/dutracing/IMG_3753.jpg

Our own part of the hall containing some older cars and in the back the milling machine and the lathe we usually bring to FSUK and FSG.
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx3/dutracing/_MG_3754.jpg

Assembly area
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx3/dutracing/_MG_3755.jpg

Production area and in the rear kitchen and storage on top.
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx3/dutracing/_MG_3756.jpg

'Operations' aka non-tech room, where we do meetings etc.
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx3/dutracing/IMG_3752.jpg

Electronics room
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx3/dutracing/IMG_3751.jpg

General assembly and everything else room (lunch, as you can clearly see)
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx3/dutracing/IMG_3750.jpg

The view (with snow).
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx3/dutracing/_MG_3762.jpg

Yours,

Tristan Timmermans
Chief Electronics
DUT Racing Team

[mech5107]

Is the meeting room, general room and electronics room all yours?

[Muad'Dib]

Everyone so far seems to have really nice big shop space. We're not so lucky, we've got half a room. Our machine shop is pretty nice but it's the department's shop so we have to share it with all the other classes/PhDs etc etc

http://i48.tinypic.com/10i803r.jpg
The view of our entire private space from the door.

http://i48.tinypic.com/e9yjjs.jpg
Looking back from the other way,our space only extends to the chalkboard

http://i49.tinypic.com/v7cxfd.jpg
Last year's car (in pieces) along with the 2008 chassis against the wall.

http://i49.tinypic.com/2i7uu6q.jpg
other side of the shop, along with the wall of shame. (considerably smaller since building last year's pushbar)

http://i47.tinypic.com/zn6us.jpg
Suspension table (ready to go on chassis once welding is done)

http://i45.tinypic.com/15nucxt.jpg
And the 2010 chassis. Almost completely done, upside down for welding.

Needless to say some of the pictures from other shops have made me drool with envy but I guess this is the price we pay for going to school inside a crowded city.

[Muad'Dib]

pictures pending approval. A bit of a departure from the teams so far...

[jaca]

angle grinders
welder
random engine on floor

yup definitely a fsae shop http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

cool uprights..

[Adambomb]

Finally got around to uploading pics.

Cyclone Racing Shop (http://www.sae.stuorg.iastate.edu/?page_id=144)

Here's ours, our shop is in an old nuclear reactor room. Then we have a storage room that used to be the "sub-critical storage room," (still has trace levels of radiation...not supposed to spend more than an hour a day in there), and then we have an office upstairs that we converted into a computer lab after the ME department sold the old one off to the electrical and computer engineering dept. for grad student space. In the end not such a bad deal, we had to bust our butts to scrounge up some computers capable of running Solidworks, but surprisingly most of our 5-7 year old computers are running faster than the new dept. ones due to the fact that we didn't install all the bloatware that is on typical university computers. Plus the dept. computers have pretty lame graphics cards.

[lulehf]

We moved into a new shop last year, and couldnt have asked for a better place to be!

This is the entrance (the open space is not ours)
https://www.itslearning.com/file/download.aspx?FileID=642013&FileVersionID=-1

This is the main room were we build the cars
https://www.itslearning.com/fi...leVersionID=-1 (https://www.itslearning.com/file/download.aspx?FileID=641906&FileVersionID=-1%5B/IMG%5D)

https://www.itslearning.com/file/download.aspx?FileID=641907&FileVersionID=-1

Our meeting room
https://www.itslearning.com/file/download.aspx?FileID=641910&FileVersionID=-1

Our machine roomhttps://www.itslearning.com/file/download.aspx?FileID=641912&FileVersionID=-1

https://www.itslearning.com/file/download.aspx?FileID=641913&FileVersionID=-1

https://www.itslearning.com/file/download.aspx?FileID=641914&FileVersionID=-1

And our other machine room, with some manuall machines as well as a welding room and a painting roomhttps://www.itslearning.com/file/download.aspx?FileID=641919&FileVersionID=-1