🏗️ Alcor's Engineering Equipment Wishlist
Alcor’s engineers have been working in a seriously cramped space -- and it's seriously cramping their style. We've built them a new engineering wing with plenty of breathing room, but now we need your help to outfit it with essential equipment.
>> Alcor's Engineering Wishlist <<
- $8,000 HEPA Fume/VOC Extractor – BOFA AD 1000iQ - https://www.matterhackers.com/store/l/bofa-ad-1000-iq/sk/MZA039LV A good Fume and VOC extractor is essential in an enclosed environment when using adhesives, glues, resins, soldering, etc. Health and safety.
- $2,000 Material storage racks for tubing and sheet materials – Custom designed inhouse, built locally. An organized workshop is an efficient workshop. Having quick access to our available materials means less waste and duplication of material purchases
- $40,000 Small electric 2.5T forklift – PCB to cover some of the cost due to use as main push/pull vehicle for SuperD for all patient transfers into SD dewars. Other functions are general use to load and unload truck shipments, lift heavy objects to mezzanine, onto storage racks and onto worktables.
- $27,175 Tormach 770M CNC Mill - https://tormach.com/770m-premium-package-cfg.html or – a Lower Cost CNC Mill as an alternative to the 770M is this one; $18,785 Tormach PCNC440 CNC Mill https://tormach.com/pcnc-440-premium-package-with-atc.html A good CNC mill will be used mainly for machining cryonics-specific custom designed aluminum and copper components. The more expensive mill is bigger, has a larger work area, and due to greater rigidity of the structure it can machine more types of materials in less time.
- $5,000 – $15,000 for Various Bulk Fastener Assortments - https://nutsandbolts.com/collections/fastener-assortments Almost everything we build requires threaded fasteners of some kind. We have always ordered fasteners piecemeal, which means that we buy each one separately at retail price as needed. Buying bulk fasteners means that we will have those fasteners in stock, and these will be much cheaper to implement in the long run. The price differential is based on which fastener assortments we can afford to purchase. More $ = more fasteners.
A well-designed engineering space is essential for maintaining and advancing our technical capabilities. Your contribution will help establish a purpose-built work environment where our team can efficiently manage, maintain, and develop our critical systems and equipment. This investment in infrastructure directly supports the quality and reliability of our preservation services.
Prefer to support a different aspect of our mission? You can support other areas of Alcor through our variety of directed donation funds: