New Equipment-price and usage guide

 Cutting torch  Price:300$  Avail: C/C

 This requires acetylene and oxygen (or compressed air) tanks. Small tanks will last for 4-5 jobs, while large tanks will last 30 jobs (10min cutting time/job). Tanks cost 50$ for a small one, or 150$ for a large one and are V/V. A new charge of fuel costs 40$/job for acetylene (R/R) and 5$/job for oxygen (R/R) or 1$/tank compressed air (V/V). Cutting torches and Arc welders are necessary for jury-rigging.

 Forge   Price:1000-50000$ Avail: S/S

 The quality of the forge is determined by it's cost, a gas fired industrial forge from a steel foundry will run into the 10's of thousands of dollars, and are immobile. Small expermimental gas fired forges will cost 4-5000$. Primitive hand-made coal burning forges will run 1000$-5000$ depending on size. As natural gas is as rare as can be, hardly anyone will be using gas-fired forges, but they have about twice the efficiency, and are much easier to work with.

 Machine shop Price:10000$  Avail: S/S

 The shop consists of 4 basic parts. The lathe, the disk grinder, the drill press, and metal saw. The one listed here is for a small experimental shop. An Industrial set could cost up to 1 million dollars. These require at least 50Kw to operate a small shop (and up to 500Kw for industrial). To use the shop, one has to have Machinist skill, though any "shop" skill (Metalurgy, mechanic, civil engineer) will allow use at 1/2 skill level. A well run Machine shop can create practically any metal part from stock metal. These parts are hand made, rather than produced in a factory, and will take a great deal of time (and thus money) to create. however, it is the only source of new parts. Other machines can be bought for specialized jobs. A brass stamper for turning out cartridges (with different dies for each calibre).

 Anvil   Price:50$  Avail: S/S

 This is part of the basic blacksmith tools, but must be bought and handled seperatly. This and a small forge allows basic blacksmithy (creation of simple metal parts).

 Blacksmith tools Price:100$  Avail: C/C

 These include tongs, hammers, bending rods, engravers, etc. A basic tool set can also be used but suffers a -1 penalty.

 Temperature controlled ovens Price:1000$ Avail: R/R

 These allow the slow cooling of metals to properly anneal newly cast metal parts. Crude annealing will cause the part to automatically have a wear value of d10 (10 being automatic failure of the part).

 Crucible  Price: 100-5000$  Avail: S/S

 This holds molten metals (steel/copper), and can be attached to a crane to move molten metal out of the forge, and cast it into the mould in a controlled manner. The price depends on the size and how advanced the pouring technique. For 100$ you get an insulated bucket with handles, for 5000$, an industrial 500l steelcasting bucket.

 Cranes  Price: 500$/ton  Avail: S/S

 These are fixed assembliges (which have to be built into the shop) which lift and move heavy objects via electrical power. they require around 2Kw/ton for everyday use, with peak power ranging in the 15Kw/ton range (usually handled by batterys). Deisel cranes can also be found, and consume fuel at the rating listed for generators of that power. They are essential for speedy replacement of large vehicle parts (engines, turrets), or moving immobilized vehicles around. A 10 Ton crane is good enough for parts and engines, a 50 Ton crane for vehicles (except the heaviest of tanks). They can also be invaluable in construction of buildings, bridges etc. Setting up a crane at a site is a Major (but Average) task for Civil Engineer, or Machinist.

 Finishing tools Price: 1500$   Avail: S/S

 These are power hand tools for "blueprinting" parts to fit exactly into place. They are needed for using cast parts, and augment the normal tools for the machineist.
 
 

 Sandcasting setup Price: 1000$   Avail: S/S

 Rather than one fixed product, this represents the gathering of all the materials in order to do sandcasting, it includes braces, a clean supply of sand, and clamps. Once an object has been created, it can be cast by placing it (or a wax copy) in sand, and hypercompressing the sand around it (or melting the wax out). A crude copy (unfinished) can be made then by pouring molten metal into the mould. This is the fastest way of making parts, called Drop Forging. The parts then have to be annealed, and finally finished.

 Bullet moulds Price: 250$   Avail: S/S

 One mould will allow casting of the lead bullet of one calibre of weapon. Shot is made much more simply by dropping molten lead into a bucket of water. Lead bullets are usually much worse penetrators (+1 to each penetration catagory), but cannot be jacketed with primitive technology. They can be crossed into Dum-Dums (by hollowing out the tip), this reduces the range by 1/2 and worsens the penetration further (+1), but increases the damage by 1 die. Gunpowder or corditie is still needed however.