I've fancied learning to weld for a while but never really got round to it. Sometimes it's a bit frustrating trying to get bits of work done
and think it would be better if you could just do it yourself.
Anyway, all the courses I can find are long courses (over months or even a full year of evening classes). The only short course I can find is a 5 day
course in Wakefield for mucho money.
Problem is I work offshore so I don't have lots of time for these type of long courses and I would rather just do a week course or a couple of
weeks of evening classes.
There used to be some at Leeds College but I don't think they do them anymore. Anybody got any ideas.
Secondly, Mig or Tig. Part of the reason I want to learn is for future projects so ultimately it will be fairly thin panel welds and exhaust pipes,
that kind of stuff. What one is best for that?
If anybody is near LS8 and fancies welding up a couple of things for me in the meantime (exhaust link pipe), I'll be happy to pay them for
time/materials.
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Originally posted by speed8
Secondly, Mig or Tig. Part of the reason I want to learn is for future projects so ultimately it will be fairly thin panel welds and exhaust pipes, that kind of stuff. What one is best for that?
There should be something at Leeds College of Technology I'd have thought, Mike Coman who writes now & then for PPC mag works there doing car restoration stuff, bound to be an email address in the mag?
Martin Keenan was doing tuition check his website out mkengineering
As above, great guy and you can pay for as much or as little training as want
I did 2 hours most on Mig but also I wanted to try Tig. By the end of two hours I was confident i could join two pieces of metal to a reasonable
standard. More importantly I had sufficient knowledge to practice at home and recognise whether my welds were improving or not!
I’m a strong believer that once you’ve leant the basics practice is the best teacher. So 2 hours of flexible high quality training was better, for
me, than weeks of evening classes moving at “Mr Average’s” or worse still the slowest there’s speed of learning
Yeah, I knew there was somebody at Leeds College with links to PPC. Can't find anything on their website though, might just have to pop down and
ask him. There used to be courses at a hundred quid or so for a few weeks of night classes but they were always during my offshore time.
MK would be another option, Rotherham isn't a million miles away from me.