Physics Department Staff Shop

Cardwell Hall - Room 55 (basement level)

Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Facilities offer lathes, mills, drill presses, grinding and welding facilities.

Only certified students, faculty, and staff may use the shop.  To obtain certification, one must take a shop class or be approved by the K-State Professional Machinists listed below.   Shop users are responsible for cleaning up their work areas and putting away their tools after use.

Materials may be purchased from the Machine Shop for projects.  Tools, drill bits, taps, and safety glasses may be checked out thru the Machine Shop tool crib.

Kansas State Professional Machine Shop in the Physics Department

Cardwell Hall - Room 53 (basement level)

Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Machinist

   Russell Reynolds

   532-1631 

   russell@phys.ksu.edu

Services

• Fabrication of parts to customer specifications
• Repair of lab equipment such as water baths, shaker tables, incubators, and grain mills.
• Repair some types of office equipment like power staplers, paper shredders, and paper cutters.
• Engineering assistance to those who are designing projects and need a little help with the details.
• Design of a project from the ground up for customers who cannot put their ideas on paper.
• Basic machinist training class offered to physics students a couple times a year to help them prepare simple projects for their research.

To submit a job customers within the physics department need to bring to the shop their technical drawing, blueprints, or item they would like the shop to repair, and they will be billed directly by the physics department.  Customers from outside the physics department will also need to bring an interdepartmental requisition with them.  Once that requisition is received, they will be put on the job list for processing.

The regular labor rate is $60.00 per hour (as of July 2006).  Emergency jobs which require immediate attention will be charged double the regular labor rate.   Work is sometimes performed for customers outside the university, and is charged a different labor rate.