I was the first year of student loans.
They paid the year in advance then. What idiot thought of that…
Mate at school was Norfolk U18 clay champ. Went to uni to be a Doctor. Got his student loan in a oner the summer before he started….. bought a pair of match grade OUs! He father went mental.
Luckily he got on the clay team and got some sort of scholarship/ sponsorship so you could argue it was an investmenthe is now a consultant with better guns.
I never went to uni. I’m in the grey no man’s land. “Oh you don’t have a degree, you must be thick” vs “you didn’t do time served apprenticeship so you don’t know what you’re doing” Probably the main reason I’ve been self employed for more than 95% of my working life. Think it’s about 4 years total out of the Last 23
They changed the grant system after our year…. Wonder why
Worked with a bloke who refused any decent job until he was 40 so he didn’t have to pay back his loan on principle. He was a total knob though. One of them that enjoys being hit
My thougths on the subject is: Enterprise has been kinder to me than education.
But saying that - if you want a PAYE job - my advice would be get as many qualifications as you can for your CV - and job hunt - swap jobs for more money - keep seeking one better job after another. Don't hang about waiting to be promoted - get a better job by moving jobs.
Like many, I've had a combination in roughly the following order. Qualifications, apprenticeship, PAYE in a workshop, office based, stuff this, then self employment.
Education is a funny thing in that you get most of it when you're too young to appreciate it and/or know what you want to do. I guess a lot on here will remember all the cutting, filing, shaping, bolting of random stuff for which you could see no point whatsoever except it gave some miserable old git an opportunity to make you work harder than they did. Then there was being treated like a slave cleaning their tools and sweeping up etc. It's only when you get further on in age and mileage that you realise that those transferable hand skills, knowledge of prep, benefits of working in a tidy environment etc came from all that "pointless crap" you did. The same applies academically, calculations, physics, chemistry, ability to write clearly and concisely etc.
Me too and yet an environment has been created where young people are almost forced into higher education with no clue of what they want to do at the end. We need to drive choice more and the value of ALL of the different options open to people.100% agree with the above!![]()
Me too and yet an environment has been created where young people are almost forced into higher education with no clue of what they want to do at the end. We need to drive choice more and the value of ALL of the different options open to people.
It’s a welding forum, you know how it goes grahamI thought that this thread was about a fuel injector![]()
I think it's covered in the terms and conditions :-I thought that this thread was about a fuel injector![]()
That would be nice to know,OP hasn't actually posted whether he has got the injector out yet. Wonder if he has?
I'm trying to extract a corroded in diesel injector. Three out of the four came out by using a puller and slide hammer together. The fourth is more difficult. The threaded end has broken off the injector and so the only way to attach the puller is by welding. but the weld keep breaking every time I apply force with the puller. I always get a brittle fracture at the interface between injector and puller. I've tried MIG and MMA and it's the same. I've attached a couple of pictures. First one shows the puller to the side of the injector and the second has the puller fitted over the injector. What am I doing wrong?
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Hi. I just wondered how you got on with this? I have a similar issue. Injector snapped in half so wanting to weld a nut to it, get it turning and then maybe add some threaded bar and get my puller on it. Not welded before but planning to learn.I'm trying to extract a corroded in diesel injector. Three out of the four came out by using a puller and slide hammer together. The fourth is more difficult. The threaded end has broken off the injector and so the only way to attach the puller is by welding. but the weld keep breaking every time I apply force with the puller. I always get a brittle fracture at the interface between injector and puller. I've tried MIG and MMA and it's the same. I've attached a couple of pictures. First one shows the puller to the side of the injector and the second has the puller fitted over the injector. What am I doing wrong?
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scroll back a little and you will get yourr answer , he got it outHi. I just wondered how you got on with this? I have a similar issue. Injector snapped in half so wanting to weld a nut to it, get it turning and then maybe add some threaded bar and get my puller on it. Not welded before but planning to learn.
Cheers
Afraid so. Needs must. Live on an island and nobody wanted to take it on. Got two out, last one snapped leaving about an inch hanging out. Don’t have too many options that I can see so thought I could at least try.On this job ?
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Ah yeah. Cheers.scroll back a little and you will get yourr answer , he got it out