Shipwright Archive
Thread: Space Mining Equipment
Not sure exactly about the large starfighter cargo hold.
Otherwise both the Y-8 and POB ship components are all effectively level 10 because they require master level to deed anyway.
Hope that helps,
.Keg
Master Shipwright
Wanderhome
Small cargo hold is Lvl 1 and class 1 mining laser is lvl 2. I have both and used them in my scyk light fighter.
-Indene-
You can get them from doin the Y-8 Quest (I think, but it is currently bugged and can't complete it). There are Shipwrights that are out there that will wither go and gather asteroid resources or buy them to make the equipment. I am betting that most Shipwrights would make some equipment for you if you got the resources yourself.
Hope this helps. 
You don't have to do any quest to be able to mine asteroids. The quest serves the purpose of teaching you how to accomplish this, as well as reward you in the end with a useless mining ship (a nice trophy). Admittedly, the quest does represent some of the best content in the game. However, all you need to do is look on public bazaar (using the vendor search) for a mining laser and a cargo hold, equip the mining laser to a weapon slot and the cargo hold to the cargo hold slot and you are set. Alternatively, contract a shipwright to craft these components for you.
If you want a good guide on mining asteroids, the Pilot Forum has a link in their FAQ sticky.
Any shipwright who says they can't make mining equipment probably just doesn't think they can sell mining equipment at the rate it would take to make sense for them, considering the equipment consists solely of asteroid resources that sell on the open market for as much as 75-80CPU.
Illuminatrix wrote:
Where are these quests? I want to get started as well but can't seem to find any mining equipment available.. anywhere.
Go to the main tree in Kachiro and find a guy named Flash, he'll give you a sob story about losing his ship and he needs you to carry a message he is the starting point.