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I have spoken with Ken Jones this morning on the welding course.
I will have firm pricing on costs as of early next week. It is estimated that the cost will be between $150-$200 per person which will cover materials and instructor for an eight hour class on a Saturday.
They have room for 14 students at a time, each will have their own welder and bench.
This will be a hands on introductory welding class using a mig welder. He has asked what kind if stuff we would like covered, I said we would like to learn how to weld metal plate up to 1/4", round tubing for roll cages and bumpers/ fenders etc., as well as light gauge metal for body panels and such. If you have more suggestions please speak up.
The instructor is a retired journeyman welder by trade, and comes out of retirement so us jeepers can improve our fab skills.
Providing there is enough interest, more advanced courses can and will be provided, we will discuss that after the first course.
I would think that we should put a deposit down (when price and dates are finalized), as we all now lots of people will say "I'm there man", but may not show up.
Ken is willing to put on more then one course for this, if there is more interest, there is more courses.
I will keep you all posted!
Good morning everyone,
While shopping at Jackstandjohnny's house of jeeps we got into the subject of learning how to weld and thought wouldn't it be nice to get a bunch of the jeep community out to learn how to weld so we can all start to build and fix our jeeps a bit better.
So I spoke with the local pipe union here in which I am affiliated with, who happens to have a nice shop set up in calgary with workstations and welders, as well as an instructor.
They would be happy to have the folks from the cja down to put on a course so we can learn how to weld.
Now please note that I am not a member of the cja as of yet, and this is not a course put on by the cja, I'm just a guy who loves wrenching and would like to broaden my skills so I can tinker more with my own money pits.
In order to get this course going, I need to see who would be interested so I can get numbers, pricing, duration, dates, times excetera from the union hall.
If this is something that you fellow jeepers would be interested in, please let me know by replying to this post or sending me a message.
If you happen to be an executive and have any thoughts on how to make this better or such, please feel free to let me know.
Once again, I am not a person of authority in the cja, I just thought I'd extend an invitation to the jeep community.
Topic: Want to learn how to weld? *****UPDATE***** (Read 9762 times)