Im just curious did most of you guys just learn to weld on your own? Or did you take some kind of welding class


Modified by super-NAPIER at 8:50 PM 1/4/2006

 

i learned on my own but when i got a job at catapiller they made me go to welding school it was more a 2 week test to make sure my welds were quality more then it was actual school since i didnt learn any thing but it was cool lol i got to sleep in my welding both

 

yea, Im debating on whether or not to take this one at my local college its called basic welding concepts. I just dont wanna waste the money on something stupid

 

how much do u know about welding?

im sure the college has sepcific courses that cover arc mig and tig induvidually at different levels

take a course that u dont know about maybe

 

I still say no, there going to teach you the basics which you already know. I would take a class that is specifically for tig, or mig, or even arc.

 

i took a class. only once a week. i already knew how to mig. but really, everyone does. I learned stick, and we mainly focused on that, with a little tig at the end. I got real good at stick, but you rarely use it in the automotive field


Modified by vr6chris at 6:32 PM 1/4/2006

 

3 1/2 years of full-time classes at a local community college. About 75% of the coursework was hands-on while the other 25% was spent in the classroom (main teacher is the President of the AWS )

 

i'm starting a tig course on the 14th. i'm more interested in theory.

 

I bought a MIG to try and teach myself and get familiar with it, then I enrolled in a couple classes for oxy/acy and plasma cutting, Shielded Metal Arc 'stick', MIG, and TIG.

 

i learned MIG on my own but am going to take a welding lab at VT this semester for use with SAE Baja...

 

I learned by doing..

If there was a class to be taken, I probably would have done it.. But I dont like looking

 

I learned ARC in highschool.. Then got tested at a local college for my CWB certificate in Flat position...

8 pass fillet weld using 5/16" 7018 rods.. Then the plates get X rayed