Foundry

The foundry can used to cast aluminum using a sand cast mold system. 

To use the foundry independently, two people must be present. Both the person pouring and the person who is the safety backup person must have completed the safety certification course.

To be fully certified, the certification class and four independent pours are required. Often these can happen during the certification class. If not, there are always pour times set up at the end of every certification class for this purpose. Class is by request.

There is a cost of $5.00 per pour to cover the gas.

*We do not currently have a Shop Captain or Instructor for the Foundry. Would you like to teach? Reach out to info@tinkermill.org!

HAM Radio

Tinkermill has the best station inside the Longmont City limits for working DX and is definitely within the top 10 stations in Boulder county in that regard.

The main antenna is a Mosley Pro-67 mounted at 65 feet on a Rohn-25G tower. This antenna covers 40m (3el), 30m (1el), 20m (3el), 17m (2el), 15m(3el), 12m (2el) and 10m (4el). The antenna is turned with a Yaesu G2800 rotor. We also have 2 dipole antennas for 80 amd 160m.

Contact: sebastian.wessels@tinkermill.org  and active on Slack

IT Infrastructure 

The IT Infrastructure at TinkerMill consists of a few desktops, laptops and printers distributed throughout the facility for use by members. There are a few dedicated machine side PC’s for interfacing with pieces of equipment such as the Laser cutter, the ShopBot and 3D printers. In addition we have a small hypervised server infrastructure for local monitoring and backup functions.

See more on our Wiki.