Our workshop contains the machinery and expert staff required to design, repair and create specialist equipment.
The role of the mechanical workshop is to provide technical support to staff and students at the Centre. We machine mechanical components to a very high specification using conventional and CAD machining methods. Our team of highly-skilled technicians regularly produce custom-built equipment, which is tailor-made to specific brain research imaging projects.
3D printing
We have two 3D printers (Stratasys Objet30 and Formlabs Form 2), which allow us to fabricate high-end rapid prototypes to support our research, working from pencil sketches and CAD drawings. We also have an electronics workbench, soldering station and a Roland Modela MDX-40A 3D milling machine.
Equipment
Our workshop houses the following specialist equipment:
- Stratasys Objet30 3D printer
- Formlabs Form 2 3D printer
- Kryptonic temperature-controlled digital soldering station
- Proxxon MF70 micro miller fan
- Purex fume extraction fan
- PD 400 lathe
- Sealey pillar drill
- Record BS250 bandsaw
- Roland Modela MDX-40A mill
- Formech FLB500
- SX2 Mini Mill
- Tektronic TBS 10252B-EDU digital oscilloscope
- Fluke 8808A 5-1/2 digital desktop multimeter (C2)
- Bambo silent compressor
- ISO- tech IPS 2303 Laboratory DC power supply
- Tektronicx AFG1022 arbitrary function generator
Completed projects
The following projects were all custom-built on site using the tools and equipment in our workshop.
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The 3D printer was used to fabricate these tailor-made TMS coil spacers.
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This custom-built joystick stand was constructed for the MEG lab to the precise specifications set out by our researchers.
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This custom-made projector stand was built to match the requirements of MR scientists working on research projects.
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This custom screen holder was created to allow participants to engage in tasks while brain images are retrieved by the MEG scanner.
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This aluminium frame with 3D-printed custom inserts for holding compressed gas flow meters was built in-house by our technicians for gas physiology MRI studies.