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night school at local collage but don't do the city n guild unless you want to be a welder, if its just for car repair do a car restoration course.
or just watch loads of vids on you tube
or just watch loads of vids on you tube
find a friend with a welder? i have one, one who conviently owns a garage and allows me to use his trade account 
lucky aint i
lucky aint i
My youngest was desperate to learn, watched loads of vids on YT, bought himself a 2nd hand welder, brought a load of scrap home & set about melting the metal.
He had a load of pigeon **** at first but after some trial and error he seems to have a feel for it & does a pretty good job.
He had a load of pigeon **** at first but after some trial and error he seems to have a feel for it & does a pretty good job.
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tons of young kids at leeds city college, id recommend wake field skills center
http://www.skill-centre.co.uk/
pricey tho.
what do you want to know exactly?
I'm a fabricator can't call me a welder cause I ain't perfect.
what you thinking about learning
Mig: wire provides the electrode and melts in a pool. Easiest, point n click, hardest part is getting the amperage and feed rate nice. then all you need to do is look at what your welding to where you want to put the heat.
Tig hold the electrode in one hand and feed the wire in manually, quiet fun. not overly hard to do but hard to master all the different materials
Stick welding, im ok some days n and others, the stick is the electrode and it gradually goes into the material, have about a 5% success rate of getting the peel back effect 80% of easy chippings
quite cool to do mainly used on site by us. using a large tranny filled with oil gives some lovely stick welds
oxy acetaline / gas welding. I have no idea.
and the insides of a basic 40+ year old industrial Mig welder sprite is not in pic
http://www.skill-centre.co.uk/
pricey tho.
what do you want to know exactly?
I'm a fabricator can't call me a welder cause I ain't perfect.
what you thinking about learning
Mig: wire provides the electrode and melts in a pool. Easiest, point n click, hardest part is getting the amperage and feed rate nice. then all you need to do is look at what your welding to where you want to put the heat.
Tig hold the electrode in one hand and feed the wire in manually, quiet fun. not overly hard to do but hard to master all the different materials
Stick welding, im ok some days n and others, the stick is the electrode and it gradually goes into the material, have about a 5% success rate of getting the peel back effect 80% of easy chippings
quite cool to do mainly used on site by us. using a large tranny filled with oil gives some lovely stick welds
oxy acetaline / gas welding. I have no idea.
and the insides of a basic 40+ year old industrial Mig welder sprite is not in pic
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you make a molten pool with the gas then fill with thick wire rod, for bench welding its quite good because you can actually see as goggles are not much darker than sunglasses. upside down though its a pain in the arse and arm and neck and every where else
just adding my first welding attempt
that comment meant no sense to myself
he has no where to practice and don't know what to buy i think
He does not want to buy, he just wants to know the basics via a course to make him better able to direct at his job i think
