Hello everyone,
I am a long time viewer, first time thread poster. I have been amateur machining for quite sometime now, 5 years, on a Micro-Mark Micro-Lux, 7x12 lathe, (it's a sieg machine), a Sherline 5400 Milling machine and a taig lathe for small/second machining projects and after viewing quite a few home made machines/conversions I want to learn CNC, actually I have been trying to learn. I bought a book that seems pretty good "Computer Numerical Control simplified" from Industrial Press it came with a CAD/CAM cd program but I can't seem to get it on my own, the math is what gets to me, math isn't my strong suit. I have been trying to look for courses on CNC machining at my local community colleges but the course's aren't offered or if they are the schools haven't opened yet because of a renovation program going on in my state for the whole school system. I wonder if anyone out there can possibly help me? I am trying to get into a CNC training program in my state of Htfd,CT. I tried to get information on such from Dept. of Education in my town/state but they end up giving me the run around between vocational high schools, I graduated in 1990, but I decided to give it a shot. I found that the local vocational high school offered night training classes for adults, I looked into this and found it was only training for paralegal and nursing. I know it may not be proper to ask this on this site/forum...what can I say? I'm desperate. Can any one possibly help me or guide me in the right direction in getting into learning CNC machining? Thanks