Shop Gallery

Pictured here are examples of different-sized projects designed and built by the Research Machine Shop. We complete projects of all sizes, from simple modifications to a single part, to the design, machining, and assembly of complex scientific instruments. What can we build for you?

Reactor Stand

This reactor stand was designed and built for a postdoctoral research and graduate student in CEE. It holds up to four Parr reactors suspending water samples in a fluidized, heated sand bed, under high temperatures and pressures. His research group is studying processes that destroy PFASs in the water supply.

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Neutron Detector Mount

The Campus Machine Shop designed and built 65 copies of this low-profile mount for neutron detectors (shown in beige), installed in the TRIUMF particle accelerator center in Canada. For scale, each detector is about 20 inches long by 8 inches in diameter, and weighs about 20 pounds. The mount provides gross vertical adjustment of ±50° and several degrees of both vertical and horizontal adjustment. Another design requirement is that the center of rotation is out at the detector face during fine aiming adjustments.

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Tiny Parts

The Campus Machine Shop makes tiny parts too! These stainless steel triangles are 0.025″ think with sides a little over an eighth of an inch long.