Multimachine - Uses

Uses

As a general-purpose machine tool that includes the functions of a milling machine, drill press, and lathe, the multimachine can be used for many projects important for humanitarian and economic development in developing countries:

• Agriculture: Building and repairing irrigation pumps and farm implements
• Water supplies: Making and repairing water pumps and water-well drilling rigs.
• Food supplies: Building steel-rolling-and-bending machines for making fuel efficient cook stoves and other cooking equipment
• Transportation: Anything from making cart axles to rebuilding vehicle clutch, brake, and other parts.
• Education: Building simple pipe-and-bar-bending machines to make school furniture, providing "hands on" training on student-built multimachines that they take with them when they leave school.
• Job creation: A group of specialized but easily built multimachines can be combined to form a small, very low cost, metal working factory which could also serve as a trade school. Students could be taught a single skill on a specialized machine and be paid as a worker while learning other skills that they could take elsewhere.