[nobrakes8]

I'm apprentice tool maker, I don;t have a lot of exprience with CNC, just the basic G, M, and F codes. From what I know each manufacturer and each machine slightly change with codes. I guess most of the basic codes you can find online and in books. I bet it would be cheaper if he hired somebody with CNC exprience to come in and work for him or hire somebody as Temp. to just to teach you or whoever is going to run the machine what to do. I bet if he looked around he could find somebody at a machine shop to work on the side on weekends or after hours up at the motorcycle shop. I might be way off on that assumption. I'm assumeing your uncle isn't going to want much down time on the machine after he gets it, so it'll probably pay off to hire somebody who knows what he's doing to atleast teach whoever will be programming the machine how to run it. My school just bought about a million dollars of CNC equiptment and our teachers have been in the trade 30-35 years and I guess CNC has changed so much with newer machines than the machines 5-10 years ago so they decided to go ahead and hire somebody in the trade to work on this side to show them how to use the new machines and aspree (CAM).