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Hello all....I am new to this forum and new to the CNC field. I recently obtained a job in a small machine shop and operate our newest machine, a HURCO TMM8. Aside from a 4 month long certificate course in Industrial Technology, I have no experience in this field. A majority of what I learned has been forgotten, since its been 6 years since I took the course. I would like to get myself "up to speed" on things so that I am more prepared while I am at work. I am interested in making a career out of this.
I was hoping that someone out there would have some pointers for me on where to start in this learning process, as well as what I should be learning now and what can come with time. Any websites, forums ETC???? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!

Phil

Hi Phil,

Doing this at home with ideas toward the future but looking for the same kind of information.

Build a smallish pipedream mill and while far from perfect, it has been quite educational and fun.

The one thing I did learn is that building up the hardware certainly seems to be the easy part.

Good luck!

I guess you mostly just learn from your mistakes and talk with the other operators at work. Take it slow for now, see what others are doing and try to copy from them until you feel more at home and build up some confidence. At least you are learning in English, they got me learning over here in Japanese.

I came acrosss this forum by luck so I would say stay here, lots of newbies here, hope work goes well for you, I know it can be really stressful. Cheers

Lucky You, in Japan! And amazing that you can study in Japanees

At least they have some good knowledge of tooling and advanced machinery. And they might be laughing their asses off , every time you make a mistake. But at least you have a knowledgeable support team. And as soon as you get used to their Military discipline and Safety checks they are quite OK to work with. (My experience is coming from arriving there a lot with chemical tankers. And I must say it was a pleasure to see how they had everything arranged and lined up. My favorite harbors anytime!)
Here in Thailand they hardly know the word precision (They are mostly pre-historical Blacksmiths if you ask me. Most of the time at least!)
And As I am brand new to CNC same or even worse than the author of this tread (Still have to buy me one cheap mini unit to try it out) I will have no support whatsoever from this community at least! I hope I’m wrong on that.


No Idea how to aquire a cheap CNC Mini router / milling unit here in Asia?