Go down to your local community college.

What a great idea. Learning to use tools such as lathes and milling
machines is a joy and having such a tool should be an incentive to join an
EAA chapter.

When it comes to reasons for joining an EAA chapter, the opportunity to
learn new skills and use specialized equipment I did not have at home, and
watching others who were experienced using that tool, I would put that way
above drinking beer and telling old war stories, as much as I like to do
that.

Colin