welding (was: Tranny woes)

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

Geez, that's ridiculous!

I paid ~$220 for 8 weeks of 2 days a week, 5 hours a day = 80 hours of
instruction and welding time. I took the class at a community college.

I'd look in to what people think of the school before going somewhere. I
did my research on http://groups.google.com/

-Toby

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Mark wrote:

> > All in all it was well worth
> > the
> > $60
> > or $70 it cost.  I recommend anyone interested in welding look into a
> > class
> > like this.
>
> Look into it a bit though...  I took a one day welding "crash course"
> earlier this summer and it was a major disappointment.  The instructor
> sucked, he even said that he hated teaching welding since he was really
> an auto shop teacher...  Nearly three hours into the in-class
> instruction all we had established was what not to wear while welding,
> and heard completely boring off topic stories about his life...  NO
> theory on how to actually weld was covered.  After lunch he let us into
> the lab and just told us to "practice and get the hang of it" while he
> welded up a project from home.  All this for an outrageous price of
> $200, with no books or anything to take home, except a single photocopy
> of a proper lap weld.  Moral of the story, get some references...  (If
> you're in the Toronto area, DON'T take this course at Centennial
> College)
>
> Mark - 'Performance Welding' book on my X-mas list...
> 80 S
> 81 S  2.0 ABA/JH/4K
>
>
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