Techshop is a hacker space, not a commercial machine shop. A machinist with a few hours training could bankrupt the average manufacturer within a matter of days

Techshop is a hacker space, not a commercial machine shop. A machinist with a few hours training could bankrupt the average manufacturer within a matter of days, if not hours. Based on my experience, equipment at Techshop is, on average, an order of magnitude or two cheaper and a decade or two older than what you'd see at a commercial manufacturer.