Donations needed for

DMS General
#1

Continuing the discussion from WoodShop Committee Meeting Tuesday Jan 5 7pm:

@jeffbob & Tom Cook, thank you for highlighting this issue.

Some places (I think @Brian said WoodWorld) charge $100 an hour just for shop time. AN HOUR! wow. We get such a fantastic deal. $50 covers 720+ hours a month! or or $0.07 an hour if you could take advantage of it all, lol. (I think that would be $72,000 a month at elsewhere at $100 an hour, haha)

Contributions beyond the membership fee help keep our Woodshop in stock with sandpaper, new blades, sharp blades, and so much more. it is important for the rest of the Space too. Filament for 3D, Ink for the Photoprinter, Vinyl and Transfer Paper for the vinyl cutter, Creative Arts Supplies, Sharpies, Masking Tape, Nitrile Gloves, tape measures, magnetic dishes for metal parts (these have become consumables :-/ ).

The contributions also help maintain the tools we have, plus fund new, greater tools.

Donations are also tax deductible.

Please help build the Space. Your Space.

Cheers- john

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#2

So I need to make sure to get the free tape measure at Harbor Freight and drop it off

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#3

haha.

Funny you picked that one. Logistics today brought in several of the Harbor Freight $1.49 taps, among other goodies. Thanks Logistics!

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#4

Is there any of the other Freebies that we can use? There is one across the street from the larger Kroger I go to

#5

Most likely so!

There are 2 strong trains of thought on goodies at the makerspace.

  1. give it to us, and we will find a use for it.

  2. give it to us, and we will find a use for it eventually. but it is a lot of clutter until then.

So, just like choosing the blue pill or the red pill, or Resistance vs Enlightened in Ingress, choose withā€¦ nah. it is not as lasting as those options. Snag it for us! Thank you!

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#6

Thereā€™s been a request for more flashlights and I gather that HF often gives away their fabulous 9-LED/3xAAA models.

#7

I havenā€™t used the woodshop in a while, so please pardon my ignorance here. Is there a payment box anywhere (like we have for the the laser cutters)? If we put one up with a sign that says something like, ā€œPlease contribute for consumablesā€, maybe people will put in a few dollars from time to time. Or possibly if we put one up next to the sandpaper racks that might be a really good reminder. It would be totally voluntary but the easier it is, and the more it is visible, the more likely we might get a little extra monies that way.

Chris

#8

There is. I put one next to the sandpaper rack. We also put the QR code there and on the door.

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#9

Maybe we should spray paint all the cashboxes a bright obnoxious color so they stand out to people.

@Brandon_Green do your thing!

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#10

Say, is this true of any cash or paypal donation to a committee account? It never occurred to me this was the case and if so, is something we might want to advertise a bit more. (Or Iā€™m dense as hell and just missed it :slight_smile: )

#11

The cashboxes are in committee areas (vs common ā€˜logisticsā€™ areas), it would be up to the committees to do the painting

#12

Only a gift donation is deductible. Something like paying for laser time or 3d printer plastic is considered payment.

If you were donating $300 to woodshop because you thought it was awesome, that would be deductible.

Sandpaper replenishment is not.

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#13

I believe this would be true if we were charging for sandpaper use; however, my understanding is this would be a voluntary donation, which would be deductable.

In many ways this is different from say laser time or 3d filament. The reason is that wood shop (and machine shop) receive a monthly stipend from the member dues, ostensibly to cover operating costs like consumables. Voluntary contributions to cover sandpaper, particularly if you use a lot of it for a project, seems like a decent compromise.

#14

Hopefully youā€™re getting donation receipts then. Iā€™d play it safe for both sides and not count something like that.

#15

Yep receipts would certainly be a good idea. Also, you would need to donate a fair bit for the tax break to be worth the paperwork.