Seventynine
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Hello all, thought i'd introduce myself on here.
i have just finished a welding course at Sutton Coldfield college (level 2 TIG)
http://www.sutcol.ac.uk/search.aspx?pid=98&aid=3&level=1&courseid=728&searchType=3
^^ That one
The course is great value for money, especially now its dropped to around £150 for the full 18 weeks, 3 weeks every Saturday morning, over the winter while its too cold to be stuck under a car.
anyway, i thought i'd show you some 'before and after' pictures, so to speak.
Not being a complete stranger to MIG, (usually as a spectator) I got pretty stuck in with gas welding first off, after a few weeks playing with the torch left me with this:
[image]
quite pretty I thought, not great but a nice passable piece of welding, I urge anyone who gets a chance to gas weld, or wants to learn to start with gas welding, as its quite easy and its possibly the most logical form of welding in that you have a visible heat source and you can concentrate more on feeding the wire and the heat separately.
Anyway, after my (brief) encounter with gas welding and feeling quite proud of myself I moved onto TIG.
when I picked up the TIG gun it took a bit of getting used to, the electricity comes out of the gun different to MIG, it seemed a little similar to gas except you have to remember to turn the gun off when you draw it away from the plate otherwise you end up with a rather unruly arc of electricity all over the place
I started off doing a few dry runs
then a bit of filler wire
that was probably the first 4 weeks of the course, it got me in gear to learn the rest of it
attempts at butt welding.
after a few more hours
then a few weeks passed getting the form right, positioning myself etc and i was getting there ^^^
then a big ol' gap of time busy getting my test pieces done and getting them ticked off. which left me with a few weeks to get to grips with a bit of aluminium welding.
thought i'd post all this up for anyone else thinking of getting involved, my school was that why should i pay a big sum of money for a welder and not learn how to use it first? especially when you compare the costs.
i'm going to be looking for a welder once i've saved up a few quid, am i right in thinking i'll need about a grand for something that will do aluminium?
i have just finished a welding course at Sutton Coldfield college (level 2 TIG)
http://www.sutcol.ac.uk/search.aspx?pid=98&aid=3&level=1&courseid=728&searchType=3
^^ That one
The course is great value for money, especially now its dropped to around £150 for the full 18 weeks, 3 weeks every Saturday morning, over the winter while its too cold to be stuck under a car.
anyway, i thought i'd show you some 'before and after' pictures, so to speak.
Not being a complete stranger to MIG, (usually as a spectator) I got pretty stuck in with gas welding first off, after a few weeks playing with the torch left me with this:
[image]
quite pretty I thought, not great but a nice passable piece of welding, I urge anyone who gets a chance to gas weld, or wants to learn to start with gas welding, as its quite easy and its possibly the most logical form of welding in that you have a visible heat source and you can concentrate more on feeding the wire and the heat separately.
Anyway, after my (brief) encounter with gas welding and feeling quite proud of myself I moved onto TIG.
when I picked up the TIG gun it took a bit of getting used to, the electricity comes out of the gun different to MIG, it seemed a little similar to gas except you have to remember to turn the gun off when you draw it away from the plate otherwise you end up with a rather unruly arc of electricity all over the place
I started off doing a few dry runs
then a bit of filler wire
that was probably the first 4 weeks of the course, it got me in gear to learn the rest of it
attempts at butt welding.
after a few more hours
then a few weeks passed getting the form right, positioning myself etc and i was getting there ^^^
then a big ol' gap of time busy getting my test pieces done and getting them ticked off. which left me with a few weeks to get to grips with a bit of aluminium welding.
thought i'd post all this up for anyone else thinking of getting involved, my school was that why should i pay a big sum of money for a welder and not learn how to use it first? especially when you compare the costs.
i'm going to be looking for a welder once i've saved up a few quid, am i right in thinking i'll need about a grand for something that will do aluminium?