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Originally Posted by anthonyttu
Does your team allow the students to use a CNC mill on there own? How did you go about getting the students trained? My old team had issues just training other mentors to use it safely. How are you not worried for the students safety and the safety of your tools?
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Yep we do allow students to run the machines by themselves, well an instructor or mentor is in the room at all times.
For manual machines, we go through all the safety stuff and then start off with easy parts. Usually I or one of the older kids will show them all the knobs and do the first few parts with them. The CNC normally takes a lot longer for kids to understand and we only have 1-2 kids that can run the CNC mill. But the CNC router is a lot easier to understand and 1/2 of our team usually knows how to run that guy.
I'm not really worried about kids using the machines, as long as they are trained correctly and machines are properly kept up, there really should be no issue. The CNC we have is an educational machine, its not a production machine like a HAAS, Fadal, Mori Seiki and so on.. So its not as powerful or intimidating for new kids.
-RC