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Become an in-kind donor!

Become an in-kind donor! We owe much of our success to the individuals and businesses who have contributed essential, working equipment and materials we use. If you have something that you would consider donating, please contact us, so that we can evaluate how we could best use it. If we can use the donated item, we can guarantee that it will be used by energetic people in creative ways, plus, you can receive a tax-deduction. We have a 20 ft. flatbed truck with a lift-gate and can pick up most local donations. We appreciate your support!

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Needed for the buildout!

The following building materials and tools are necessary for the construction and transformation of the warehouse space into the studio.

Building Materials

  • Lighted exit signs & Emergency Lighting
  • High efficiency lighting
  • Ventilation ducting, roof top centrifugal utility fans
  • 36" wide metal doors and door frames
  • Metal frames windows (varying sizes)
  • Aluminum framed sliding glass doors
  • Metal stairs and staircases
  • Lumber, 2" x 6" x 12'ft
  • Steel studs, 2" x 4" x 12'ft
  • 1/2" plywood and OSB
  • Construction, Tools & Misc.

  • Airless paint sprayer
  • Nail guns, cordless drivers, hammer drill, circular saw, etc.
  • Hand tools, any usable for construction
  • Clamps (spring, C, vice grips)
  • Sawzall
  • Vehicles

  • Dependable pickup truck - with title, registration
  • Railroad caboose
  • 6000 lb. electric forklift
  • Vehicles (cars, boats, motor homes, etc.) - with title, registration



  • Continuing Needs

    Office

  • Digital video/still camera
  • Macintosh G4 computers & laptops
  • CD/DVD burner
  • Good working copying machine
  • Good working PCs - not older than 2 years
  • Fully licenced copy of Windows XP
  • Events

  • Large projection screen
  • Video projector
  • VCR
  • DVD Player
  • stage monitors & microphones for sound system
  • Mixing board for sound system
  • lighting dimmer pack
  • collapsible bleachers
  • Theater lighting
  • Stage curtains
  • Theatre seating
  • Large heavy duty black tablecloths
  • Foundry

  • 300-500 pound induction furnace
  • Sand blaster
  • Minor bench burners
  • Wax melter
  • Banding machine
  • Welding Shop

  • Angle grinders
  • Functional welders (ARC, MIG, and TIG)
  • Oxyacetylene rigs
  • Plasma cutter
  • Pneumatic die grinders & burs
  • Ironworker (multi-use hydraulic press)
  • Sheet forming tools & machines
  • Lay-Out Tables (clamps, jigs, vices, etc.)
  • Hand-held power tools
  • Pneumatic tools & supplies
  • Drill Press
  • Gas Welder/generator
  • Glass studio

  • Glass finishing tools
  • Furnace control system
  • Sparker ignite system "Fireye" safety system
  • Automatic dialer
  • Industrial ventilation hood
  • Gas/air mixer
  • Zero governors
  • Butterfly valves
  • Gas ball valves
  • Casting ladles
  • Glass tools
  • Blowpipes
  • Punties
  • Lockers
  • High temperature fire bricks
  • Low temperature fire bricks
  • Pipe for gas and air lines
  • Ceramic fiber furnace mortar
  • Glass Fusing kilns and slumping molds
  • Complete Furnaces and Glory Holes
  • Neon studio

  • Neon burners, torches, and equipment
  • Any size surplus clear or colored glass tubing
  • Pipes, pipe fittings & valves for gas system
  • High voltage transformers
  • Industrial ventilation hoods
  • Ceramics

  • Kiln furniture
  • Pyrometers
  • Jewelry

  • Jewelry torches, tools
  • Flex shaft systems
  • Centrifugal casting machine
  • Vacuum casting machine
  • Enameling kilns and firing tools
  • Kinetics studio

  • 10 x 486 (or better) laptops
  • Variable power supply
  • Voltmeters
  • Solar panels
  • Electronic components
  • Pyrometers
  • Blacksmithing

  • Tooling (hammers, tongues, etc.)
  • Anvils
  • Power hammer
  • Pneumatic press
  • Post vices/ machinist vices
  • Machine Shop

  • Lathes and accessories
  • Bridgeport-style milling machines
  • Any machine shop tools
  • Inductive electrical multi-meter
  • Metal roller
  • Horizontal band saw
  • Machining equipment & accessories
  • Wood Shop

  • Wood lathes
  • Table saw
  • Dust collection system
  • Industrial ventilation systems (fans, ducts, hoods, etc.)
  • Hand tools and Cutters
  • Panel Saw
  • Metal Detector
  • Palm orbital sanders
  • Routers and Bits
  • Jig Saw
  • Belt Sanders
  • Planers
  • Band Saw
  • Hand Carving tools



  • Non-discrimination policy: The Crucible is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, gender, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or physical disability.


    1260 7th Street, Oakland CA 94607  
    Phone: 510-444-0919 | Fax: 510-444-0918  
    Email: info@thecrucible.org  


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