WELCOME TO HACKSPACE MANCHESTER

Hackspace Manchester is a 24/7 makerspace located within the city centre of Manchester,  a community hub which provides you access to a varied range of equipment to help you realise your personal or group arts, science, craft, technology projects.

We run weekly open nights from 6.30pm to 9.30pm each Wednesday for non members to come along, get a tour, use the space and see the benefits of becoming a member.

Please be aware that no open evenings or space tours are currently taking place due to the COVID-19 Level.

OUR FACILITIES

LASER CUTTER

A 600 x 400mm bed CO2 laser cutter which can cut and engrave a wide variety of materials

PRINTERS

3D printers, laser printer, wax printer and large format printer all available for use

WOODWORK

A dedicated woodworking area with band saw, table saw, wood lathe, pillar drills and more alongside our CNC machine

METAL WORK

A dedicated metal work area with metal bandsaw, metal pillar drill, metal lathe and metal folding tools

CRAFT

Craft suppliers including leather making tools, sewing machines and overlockers.

PLASTICS

Plastic forming area with tools and materials to create your own plastic moulds alongside our 3D Printers

ELECTRONICS

A dedicated electronics bench with soldering equipment, desoldering equipment, hot air and infrared oven

SNACKSPACE

Members tuckshop with soft drinks, chocolate, crisps, noodle boxes and other snacks.

SOCIAL

It’s not all about projects, we have an active community with regular social evenings and get togethers.

WHERE TO FIND US

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Wellington House, Pollard Street East, Manchester, M40 7FS

LOCAL TRANSPORT LINKS

  • Tram: Holt Town (2 min walk) / New Islington (5 min walk)
  • Buses: 216 or 231 from Piccadilly Gardens every 10 mins or so until midnight each day.
  • Car parking: there is limited off street parking alongside the building and a fair amount of on street parking outside.
  • Walking: it’s a 25 min walk from Piccadilly Gardens, 20 from Piccadilly Station.

CONNECT WITH US

LATEST FORUM POSTS

Metal Milling Machine

There’s been some discussion recently about getting a manual metal milling machine for the space. I think this would be very useful personally. I’ll ask for this to be made a wiki post if possible so that others can edit it. I’ve tried to combine all the bits of info… [...]

T-shirt (and other stuff) Printing

As it looks like we are going to end up with a heatpress through the new equipment fund YAY which we can use to do t-shirt printing and other things like caps, phone cases etc. To do this we need to either be able to use the vvnyl cutter for… [...]