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A decent instructor is invaluable. I was struggling a bit on a vertical fillet until the instructor advised that my root was far too big. Once I corrected this my top pass got so much easier and it clicked into place. I could have burned scores of rods otherwise and probably not improved. All I needed was thirty seconds of advice.
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EAZEE
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Most courses these days have no qualification attached. The government pulled the funding on short courses hence, these new short courses that charge a load of money because the colleges can't make any money from funding. Some colleges, not all, employ guys that can't weld for toffee making it difficult for those that can weld to get a foot in.
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Short courses is a big business here also
No much control of the quality but there are many advantages provided up to govt funding.
To learn technical gesture one need theory then watch the job done by a competent tech
Videos are valuable because of that.
I am not sure than 10 persons with hoods on can see well what the instructor is doing. But a proficient instructor knows how to analyze, how to speak about his and your gesture.
Good luck
No much control of the quality but there are many advantages provided up to govt funding.
To learn technical gesture one need theory then watch the job done by a competent tech
Videos are valuable because of that.
I am not sure than 10 persons with hoods on can see well what the instructor is doing. But a proficient instructor knows how to analyze, how to speak about his and your gesture.
Good luck
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got any details?
beginners arc welding i recon is best done 1:1 for the 1st hour or two.
i've got a few mates welding reasonable well quite quickly it genraly starts with them makeing me cups of tea, and watching. give them a good mask and a running commentry of of how / why your doing what when. then get them to burn a few rods and watch advise as needed ( just 6013s but new decient quality rods you know the ones that'll weld on there own ) just to help get them started laying beads, once they are doing ok at that comes makeing tea part 2. this basicly consits of chunks of 10 - 20mm plate offcut, a 5kg box of old damp nasty rods, and a bucket of water. lay beads on plate untill its to hot, chuck it in bucket repeat untill the bucket is hot enough to make tea or you've run out of rods ( takes a while ). they've all got the hang of butt and fillet joints on the flat very quick fter that and it virtually straight on to vertical up
i've got a few mates welding reasonable well quite quickly it genraly starts with them makeing me cups of tea, and watching. give them a good mask and a running commentry of of how / why your doing what when. then get them to burn a few rods and watch advise as needed ( just 6013s but new decient quality rods you know the ones that'll weld on there own ) just to help get them started laying beads, once they are doing ok at that comes makeing tea part 2. this basicly consits of chunks of 10 - 20mm plate offcut, a 5kg box of old damp nasty rods, and a bucket of water. lay beads on plate untill its to hot, chuck it in bucket repeat untill the bucket is hot enough to make tea or you've run out of rods ( takes a while ). they've all got the hang of butt and fillet joints on the flat very quick fter that and it virtually straight on to vertical up
PM sent so not to go off topic here.
EDIT: PM sent also to Chris Y below 10.14am
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Can you tell me more about this please, if its going off topic maybe a PM.
I'm in the North East and as well as generally improving my skills I particul
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RaceDiagnostics
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I did a night school on welding a few years ago at Oatridge Agricutural college (near Linlithgow), it was a total waste of time and money, again the "instructor" was totally incapable of teaching.
In the end I learned what little I know from practice, youtube and asking questions here.
In the end I learned what little I know from practice, youtube and asking questions here.
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Its happening everywhere they advertise a course in a subject if its gets some interest they recruit a lecture to teach.
I started to apply for a part-time job with a local college for a cad course as I met the entry requirements for the position.
I was also going to enroll on a course to update my knowledge.
It wasn't until I dug a little deeper that I put 2 and 2 together and realized the course I was enquiring about was the same one they had just advertised as a part-time job, I was thinking of applying for.
That was more than enough to walk away from both.
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I've offered the OP my help but I'm not cheap. Then again neither is going to any proper training centres.
As I mentioned to go down to CEME in Rainham with a guy called Alan is £235 a day plus VAT. That's per person and usually there's 4 or 5 of you there.
One on one would be a lot of money I should think.
TWI are a little bit more expensive.
Weldability are about the same.
As I mentioned to go down to CEME in Rainham with a guy called Alan is £235 a day plus VAT. That's per person and usually there's 4 or 5 of you there.
One on one would be a lot of money I should think.
TWI are a little bit more expensive.
Weldability are about the same.
