CNC MILL AND LATHE COURSES

[Danny McGee]

Does anyone know of a place that does training courses on cnc mills and lathes? Somethine like a 5 day course or whatever really.

Cheers

danny

[timmy121]

i did one at Leeds college of building but that was night course, one night a week for about 6 months they may do others, really good college

[Fabs]

5 days is very short to learn how to use a CNC lathe or machining centre properly...

[Doomanic]

Originally Posted by Fabs

5 days is very short to learn how to use a CNC lathe or machining centre properly...

It's about long enough to be dangerous.

Programming courses will last up to a year, most operators and setters will learn on the job whilst under close supervision.

[RogerM]

Have to agree with Dom, having seen the utter devistation caused by a mistake on the feed speed on a CNC milling centre a few years ago as the investigating health and safety officer (also first first-aider on scene) I can assure you that no matter how good an engineer you are or what level of experience you have on manuals CNC can not and should not be rushed into.

I've looked at courses fairly recently and most are around 300 hours.

[timmy121]

that's what i was doing an apprenticeship, working on the machine with a bloke who was qualified on it and went to college on a Tuesday night

[Fabs]

Whatever you wanna do Danny gimme a shout I have access to machines and am qualified on them.