One of the funniest things I can remember about uni shop bill time was that some aerospace engi's needed some really special washers. They were quite expensive

One of the funniest things I can remember about uni shop bill time was that some aerospace engi's needed some really special washers. They were quite expensive and the shipping time was going to cut a deadline extremely close. So they were able to send one of the grad students who watches over the after hours student machine shop a few hours away to a place that had the metal needed in stock and then have them CNC all the washers. They charged typically charged a good bit for physics/aerospace dept. to use said CNC, still ended up being much cheaper and much faster... for simple washers.