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But the cost of failure is much higher with physical machines in a production environment. It seems realistic to want to prevent beginners from touching expens
by shuntress 10y ago
But the cost of failure is much higher with physical machines in a production environment.
It seems realistic to want to prevent beginners from touching expensive machinery that they could break through incorrect use.
- micaksica 10y agoIt doesn't take years to learn how to use expensive machinery. There's a bunch of stuff you can touch at TechShop - and potentially break - with a few-hour class and a review that you actually know how to use the thing.
- akiselev 10y agoTechshop is a hacker space, not a commercial machine shop. A machinist with a few hours training could bankrupt the average manufacturer within a matter of days, if not hours. Based on my experience, equipment at Techshop is, on average, an order of magnitude or two cheaper and a decade or two older than what you'd see at a commercial manufacturer.
- themaninthedark 10y agoIt looks like TechShop uses Tormach machines, the Pcnc 1100 starts at 8,412.00 a Haas MiniMill starts at 35,000.00 Both of these are small machines. Larger machines can easily be over 100,000.00 You want your large machines to always be working, that means you want someone who can set it up right and fast. That takes experience.
- JeremyHerrman 10y agoThere are ways to help avoid many types of failures & machine crashes that beginners encounter, but solutions tend to involve physical and software integration that most machine shops just don't have the expertise to build or margins to justify spending on.