Being in cnc machining for 15 years now, there is so much advantage for cnc equipment that make successful results possible and that is what truly drives your profits. Having repeatable processes is key for long term success. One day ill have my own shop.
All true, but making payments on 300k ++ machine is tough at 5 years. You still need someone to clean, measure and assemble the parts. That can only be done by hand from very talented humans. That being said, there is a shop tour on UA-cam that shows a Rottler hone in the background just doing its thing. Very cool as it takes a skilled operator to use a Sunnen CK or like machine as we are running out of them.
One person cant do enough work to buy any of the new equipment, I walked into a cylinder head shop. I bought 135k worth of equipment for 35k, after we get a paycheck and we have maintained the machines we have zero left at the end of every week. All these goliath equipment sellers dont care about the small fry guys trying to come in. They want the silver spoon babies that have a million to drop on the equipment, of course those guys can make money, they had plenty to start with. But try and build a shop from nothing, its a joke.
the fancy machines are great.but they wont fix a clueless builder. Ive seen well equipped shops still do crap work.and think they are the best around and think they are doing it better than any body and yet what they put out is crap. but it go/s both ways.
In my early 40s, working in Information Technology, building a Gasser drag car in my free time, too late to transition into a career with a machine shop, CNC, or anything performance engine related?
If you're working in IT, you're halfway there already. Biggest barrier we see is people are intimidated by the equipment because they think it's too hard to learn (though it's not). You'd probably be a rockstar with a CNC machine.
Being in cnc machining for 15 years now, there is so much advantage for cnc equipment that make successful results possible and that is what truly drives your profits. Having repeatable processes is key for long term success. One day ill have my own shop.
What is the maintenance and upkeep like on those machines ?
All true, but making payments on 300k ++ machine is tough at 5 years. You still need someone to clean, measure and assemble the parts. That can only be done by hand from very talented humans. That being said, there is a shop tour on UA-cam that shows a Rottler hone in the background just doing its thing. Very cool as it takes a skilled operator to use a Sunnen CK or like machine as we are running out of them.
One person cant do enough work to buy any of the new equipment, I walked into a cylinder head shop. I bought 135k worth of equipment for 35k, after we get a paycheck and we have maintained the machines we have zero left at the end of every week. All these goliath equipment sellers dont care about the small fry guys trying to come in. They want the silver spoon babies that have a million to drop on the equipment, of course those guys can make money, they had plenty to start with. But try and build a shop from nothing, its a joke.
the fancy machines are great.but they wont fix a clueless builder. Ive seen well equipped shops still do crap work.and think they are the best around and think they are doing it better than any body and yet what they put out is crap. but it go/s both ways.
In my early 40s, working in Information Technology, building a Gasser drag car in my free time, too late to transition into a career with a machine shop, CNC, or anything performance engine related?
If you're working in IT, you're halfway there already. Biggest barrier we see is people are intimidated by the equipment because they think it's too hard to learn (though it's not). You'd probably be a rockstar with a CNC machine.
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