Greetings

My name is Eldi, I live in Sydney and have no formal education in machining. I learn a lot from this amazing forum and watching YouTube.

I would like to start a journey that will take me into building small models, engines, of various types, orrery, etc. I am doing it as a hobby, but with a thought at the back of my mind that maybe (maybe) someday in the future I would be able to earn little money from making custom-made scientific apparatuses, which are not available as off-the-shelf products. My background and current occupation is pure scientific research. I’ve always had the desire to design and build things, and when I graduated high school wanted to study mechanical or aeronautics engineering. However, for some reasons I ended up studying and doing other things…So now, at a later stage in life I am finding myself, again, enjoying tremendously from making and building things.

I am looking to purchase my first milling machine, I prefer it to be a CNC version, not purely manual.

I have been working with a gantry-type CNC machine for doing some woodworking, so I am familiar with the general principles of CNC operation, CAD and CAM design, I primarily use Fusion 360 and Vectric Aspire software. I lack a lot of knowledge in metal machining and everything related to it, this is my weak point.

Welcome to the forum

There are others here with much more knowledge than I have of CNC … so I am just bumping this post to attract attention.

MichaelG.

^ Bumping again, before it falls off the page ^

Welcome!

Am sure that you will find kindred spirits on here, even if a long way away in mileage terms

Howard

Welcome to the forum

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Welcome to the forum Eldad. Good luck on your venture into model engineering. Lots of helpful people here to answer questions.

regards