Im looking to get a welding cert. from a good/great school or college.. Where did you learn?

 

in my garage.

 

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Still learning, every day.

 

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at my work. i wanted to make my own intake manifold for my vw like 7 years ago. my new place of employment had a tig welder so after i had been there a while i started messing with it a few days a week after work. finally got the hang of it, made a manifold. been doing fabbing on the side ever since but now i have everything i need in my garage at home so no need to do it at work.


mike

 

My dad taught me some tips, he was certified to weld and My garage just thinking of stuff I could make and started welding.

 

I started in highschool(1998) oxy-acetalyne, mig and arc. We had a tig machine but Mr. Teeling said he needed to get parts to run it. He looked like "Spoon" from the old burns stainless catalog. Finally tig welded in community college and the rest is history.

 

Curtis @ Maxrev introduced me to TIG and that's where I met a few fabricators who knew how to weld. After asking a few ?'s trying to educate myself, I thought I could weld, but had no idea. Time under a hood will teach you a thing or two

 

Don't be so moddest. You are one of Full-Races founders and should be part owner right now(oh well). You along with Jon inspired many of us to better ourselves.

 

ha, modest is my middle name how does that saying go...the more i learn the less i know or something like that.

 

I learned to stick weld as a kid farming, didn't get into wire feed until high school, did different flux core processes as jobs for structural transport tractor chassis for a while, got into tig because I hated breathing so much smoke, getting burned and working in other poor conditions with poor materials. Got sick of doing manual production tig work so got into automated tig welding, got sick of automated tig welding and got into automated plasma welding.

Now I just machine everything and bolt it together

 

I'm still learning in my garage. Would love to take a class or two just to see what I'm missing by teaching myself.

 

Learned on a farm/shop that a family owned outside of town. Started there when I was 12 making parts. He showed me TIG shortly after on aluminum, and that's all I knew until I was 17 and he taught me to MIG weld. Lucky if I got 5 hours/summer on the TIG though.
Then MIG for a few years, then out to Alberta to do Stick, flux,etc. Got signed up, and went to school, where I learned OAW, then SMAW, then GMAW in 1st year. Got the Journeyman, then welded mostly stick for years. Contracted to a hot rod shop for a few months doing MIG and TIG, then Bought a Sync 200 back in 2004, started doing TIG on the side for the RSX community at first, and it spread from there.
What a journey. I now instruct at the same College I got my certification from. Best job in the world working for somebody else.

 

I Learned how to Weld at Comunity College, I have just two more semesters to earn my A.S in welding technology! Never got into the OFW that much, but I Learned Stick, Wire, and alot of Tig. Very happy with school. I'm going to wait til I graduate then bangout a few Tig certs before I go.

 

Tulsa Welding School. What a bunch of crap!

 

i learned freshman year in high school. but i just barely learned how to tig a few years ago at work.

 

highschool and vo-tec, did alum for 3 yrs building custom ambulances, now i'm a iron worker

 

I took a little 1 day class at a local welding fab shop that has classes (started on Tig lol), then from there just welding in my garage.

Even though I'm welding everyday I'm still learning new things all the time. Funny how you think you know what your doing then get kicked down a peg or two.

 

for me the best way to learn is to teach ur self i started welding for curries making door frames haha now i build floor for winnabago i do mig and tig welding all day at work! and way way way under paid! and im certified

 

I learned in my community college.... Just know the basics of stick and mig welding....

 

A friend at work taught me the basics of MIG. Love it. :D

 

Self taught, and learned a lot that way. Also ****ed a lot of **** up lol.

Need to learn tig and then I will be set to do whatever I need in my shop!

 

I taught my self most of what i know, but I wont lie or take all the credit. Plenty of people right here on honda tech have helped me out and delt with the "noob" posting and sending pm's Haha. Thanks to everyone who's lend there hand in my learning experience. But hell, I learn something new every day. Never ending process.


In short, i learned....

In my garage.
And Honda tech