hi thumper, look also for an okuma shop in your area : arround here are a few within a normal distance, so it takes me 5-15 minutes to reach them
even if you receive training, i can tell that such training has a schedule, but if you are not familiarized with such machines, then you may get lost after the 3rd hour of training, and you may have a revelation and ask a question 1 year later about a thing that was presented during the training this happens sometimes ...
so go with training + talk with your tool supliers, training guy, okuma rep, etc, so to locate your okuma neighbours, so to have a reliable contact close to you
also, i am in kansas, but i cant explain where ... basically, i am so lost in kansas & i no longer see the aligators / kindly