Teaching welding

[wackywacerwill]

Hi all, I'm new to the site and fairly new to welding too. I have dabbled with Mig and gas at work and have a Mig at home which is mainly used for repairing my fleet of shonky vehicles

I work in a youth project and we have both mig and oxy/acetylene which we use for basic fabrication. No one here is trained as such in welding other than getting a few pointers from those with more experience and basic trial and error practice.
We would like to be able to teach some of our young people to weld (most likely Mig) and as such I have been tasked with finding out what qualifications we would need to gain? I've followed a few dead links and then remembered this place so thought I'd ask here.

Any help/advice much appreciated

 

[awemawson]

If it involves 'youth' and you have ox-acetylene I would strongly advise someone urgently needs to be properly trained in the safety aspects, preferably certified. It is safe in the right hands and VERY unsafe in unskilled / inexperienced hands. If not I'm sure that your insurance will be invalidated, but even if not, you need to be able to demonstrate competence in the handling of acetylene.

 

[Lawnmowerboy]

oxi propane

 

[Lawnmowerboy]

its just as good but beople dont shudder when you say it like acet.

 

[awemawson]

its just as good but beople dont shudder when you say it like acet.

Only for cutting and brazing. No use at all for welding.

 

[backpurge]

its just as good but beople dont shudder when you say it like acet.

Lot of "urban myths" surrounding acetylene, ask the pro's what they would rather work with and most will say acetylene

It's like owt else, abuse it an it will bite you in the ****, treat it correctly and you won't have a problem