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Originally Posted by raf4far

this kind of thing happens all the time in our shop. Its the kind of thing that happens when you are in a machinee shop. The only way you learn is to make mistakes

Man, I don't even know what to say to that. I'm not saying I've never crashed a machine. But I know the one time I did, I never wanted to again. I was very embarrassed that I made such a careless mistake, and I was very concerned about the "health" of the machine. I usually try to learn by watching someone who knows what they are doing; not buy toying around with something I should have no business messing with. When you work at JPL, and you drive the Mars rover off the table by mistake because you weren't sure which button to press. They aren't going to say "oh well, at least he learned something" when you just cost them a few million dollars and multiple months of hard work. When you open up a computer monitor to repair it, and you accidentally grab a hold of the CRT, you might not even get to learn anything from that experience because you might be dead.

While making mistakes is a method of learning, it is certainly not the only method and I don't think it is a great method of learning.

If I had the luxury of owning a HAAS CNC, I'd take care of it like it was my child.