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Nevis Machine Shop

Shop facilities

The Nevis Labs machine shop consists of one machinist with experience in an assortment of modern CNC equipment. The shop prides itself on quality work, innovative solutions to difficult problems, and fast turnaround on projects.

The shop provides both conventional and CNC milling (52" x 30" maximum X ∓ Y travel), turning (15" swing), precision grinding, and sheet metal fabrication and welding (Tungsten Inert Gas). The shop works with ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics, Teflon, scintillator, and a variety of other materials. There is extensive experience in the manufacture, welding and Helium leak testing of high vacuum systems.

The current rate for use of the machine shop is $75/hour.

For inquiries, please contact:

Here is a form (136K PDF) for machine shop service requests.

Shop location

Examples

Here we see Ralph Gardner assembling a mass spectrometer for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Sciences Observatory.

Ed Anderson, Dave Thomas, and Yin Au inspect one element of a mirror array for the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment at the University of Utah.