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Birdman Wolfsburg Wizard

428 posts · joined May 2010 ·

#843150
G'Day all,

There has been talk on here about welding courses and stuff.
SGSCC has a course called a taste of welding which runs on saturday afternoons from 2 - 5pm. Course is being held on the 18th and 25 of May and costs $89.
It's a good way to get and understanding of ARC, Mig and oxy welding as well as oxy cutting.
They also have weeknight courses on panel beating engine building and more indepth welding.
All info at http://www.sgscc.edu.au/

The teacher has asked me to see if there is any interest in a weekday welding course?????

mactaylor Custom Title Time!

1,005 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·

#843167
mate could of run a course at broken hill tday with all the questions i got f##k! people need to get a life!
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miikeboyle Commited Dubber

57 posts · joined Jul 2008 ·

#843177
Im interested in doing a course like this, depending on the cost and the days (shiftworker)

I actually looked up these courses a week ago.

Mike

robb Officially Full-On Dubber

279 posts · joined Apr 2010 ·

#843198
what area are we talking

Birdman Wolfsburg Wizard

428 posts · joined May 2010 ·

#843225
robb wrote:what area are we talking
Southern Sydney

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#843308
Birdman wrote:G'Day all,

There has been talk on here about welding courses and stuff.
SGSCC has a course called a taste of welding which runs on saturday afternoons from 2 - 5pm. Course is being held on the 18th and 25 of May and costs $89.
It's a good way to get and understanding of ARC, Mig and oxy welding as well as oxy cutting.
They also have weeknight courses on panel beating engine building and more indepth welding.
All info at http://www.sgscc.edu.au/

The teacher has asked me to see if there is any interest in a weekday welding course?????
what??? no TIG? gawd🙅 thats that most important form of welding.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

Birdman Wolfsburg Wizard

428 posts · joined May 2010 ·

#843311
vlad01 wrote:
Birdman wrote:G'Day all,

There has been talk on here about welding courses and stuff.
SGSCC has a course called a taste of welding which runs on saturday afternoons from 2 - 5pm. Course is being held on the 18th and 25 of May and costs $89.
It's a good way to get and understanding of ARC, Mig and oxy welding as well as oxy cutting.
They also have weeknight courses on panel beating engine building and more indepth welding.
All info at http://www.sgscc.edu.au/

The teacher has asked me to see if there is any interest in a weekday welding course?????
what??? no TIG? gawd🙅 thats that most important form of welding.
That's why it's called A Taste of Welding.
Tig courses available weeknights.

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#843358
yeah but people are busy on week nights.😁

thats shits me, nothing ever good or is open of the weekends. how are people suppose to get anything done?

can't go to the post office after work, closed!, weekend closed!
drop your crap off at the local engineer on your sick day, go after work to pick it up closed!, weekend closed!
local mechanic for car service supplies, after work closed!, weekend closed!.

Arhhh lazy crap for crap country.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

toplessbug Fahrvergnugen

879 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#843983
vlad01 wrote:yeah but people are busy on week nights.😁

thats shits me, nothing ever good or is open of the weekends. how are people suppose to get anything done?

can't go to the post office after work, closed!, weekend closed!
drop your crap off at the local engineer on your sick day, go after work to pick it up closed!, weekend closed!
local mechanic for car service supplies, after work closed!, weekend closed!.

Arhhh lazy crap for crap country.
well if its that CRAP piss off somewhere else and see how you get on
Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 ·

#843997
vlad01 wrote:yeah but people are busy on week nights.😁

thats shits me, nothing ever good or is open of the weekends. how are people suppose to get anything done?

can't go to the post office after work, closed!, weekend closed!
drop your crap off at the local engineer on your sick day, go after work to pick it up closed!, weekend closed!
local mechanic for car service supplies, after work closed!, weekend closed!.

Arhhh lazy crap for crap country.
How come you're too sick to go to work, but not too sick to 'drop your crap off at the local engineer'???????
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

Scarab Wolfsburg Wizard

646 posts · joined Jul 2009 ·

#843998
vlad01 wrote:yeah but people are busy on week nights.😁

thats shits me, nothing ever good or is open of the weekends. how are people suppose to get anything done?

can't go to the post office after work, closed!, weekend closed!
drop your crap off at the local engineer on your sick day, go after work to pick it up closed!, weekend closed!
local mechanic for car service supplies, after work closed!, weekend closed!.

Arhhh lazy crap for crap country.
If you dont LOVE it....LEAVE!

donn Wolfsburg Elder

3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 ·

#843999
And the place you work (when not on a sickie) is open 24 hours a day 7 days a weel I supose, if it's such a crap country then why are you still here?
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#844060
good question? I questioned why I was born here and my parents told me it never used to be like this.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

Granto Commited Dubber

69 posts · joined Apr 2011 ·

#844063
it still is a good country just some of our decision makers are dickheads and some of the people we let in would be better off elsewhere, for us anyway.

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#844077
yeah I do apologize for looking like a jerk. I just have a sick and sadistic/serious sense of humor.

guess people take it the wrong way on the net?

Anyway I am really concerned how our system has made majority of the population.
Its not the peoples fault its our system. Our government has screwed us over BIG time.

we have Americanized way too much.(consumerism, throw away, quick fix, cheap bastards) I wish this country would get some of its influence from Europe.

Once you have been there and come back, its like being punched in the face. You realize how bad the situation really is.

but what can you say? you love it and you hate 😉

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

Birdman Wolfsburg Wizard

428 posts · joined May 2010 ·

#844084
Anyone actually want to talk about welding courses??? 🤪

L469 Officially Full-On Dubber

288 posts · joined Mar 2010 ·

#844089
having a european back ground myself you want lazy go have a siesta
.
sick days dont exsist in europe my father was laid off work for taking a day off
got his job back following week after explaining in great detail why he took the day off
having family that didnt make it over here when i came out with my parents we certainly
have never looked back but we still like our vws great thing is their in much less rusted condition
not needing as much welding
how common is tig welding for the home restorer?
australians are smart enough not to follow americas every move because we are free to choose
no dictatorships here🤓

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#844098
depends which Europe country you are talking about.
both Poland and Swiss have sick days and as far as i know Austria too.

how common is tig for the home restorer? I had the impression it was more common than mig or stick.
guess its different here?

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

Birdman Wolfsburg Wizard

428 posts · joined May 2010 ·

#844109
vlad01 wrote:depends which Europe country you are talking about.
both Poland and Swiss have sick days and as far as i know Austria too.

how common is tig for the home restorer? I had the impression it was more common than mig or stick.
guess its different here?
FYI Vlad, Tig is the most difficult and expensive form of welding. Just because you see it on Overhaulin and Monster Garage does not mean it is "fundamental".

Why don't you drop $80 and a couple of saturday afternoons and come learn something???

BTW just came back from holland where nothing is open on Sundays (not even the supermarket) and finding an ATM is a Mission. I thought this to myslef on sunday night whilst i was in a chemest at 8pm.

L469 Officially Full-On Dubber

288 posts · joined Mar 2010 ·

#844111
on subject of welding mig welding is very easy to pick up
my first welding encounter was watching a neighbour
you can pick up mig welders for $200$300 a bit of practice
and away you go👍

miikeboyle Commited Dubber

57 posts · joined Jul 2008 ·

#844115
What MIG welders can anyone recommend for the first time welder? Im guessing gas is better. Should all the chinese ebay welders be avoided?

How much power do I need? ill prob be doing repairs to body panels, as well as possibly welding exhausts.

L469 Officially Full-On Dubber

288 posts · joined Mar 2010 ·

#844135
mig stands for metal inert gas run from a bottle or in the flux on or in the wire
a 120 amp welder gasless?. is fine just dont weld for long periods without allowing the machine to cool down for a while
use in a well lit well ventilated area you dont want to breath in the fumes find a good mask self darkening if possible that is an expense i didnt account for my apologies
can cost almost as much as a machine itself for a really good one a good 2nd hand machine that has been checked over is probably a better bet than a chinese machine unless anyone on here knows otherwise'.i got my first machine from a panel shop they had bought new machines for tax purposes picked it up for $200 and a case of beer
lol spent $100 getting it to work right i guess i got lucky😎👍

Birdman Wolfsburg Wizard

428 posts · joined May 2010 ·

#844137
Im not a big fan of gasless migs and they seem to throw too much slag, especially on panel steel.

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#844146
I picked up an old Italian 160 A tig for 360 bucks only to find the DC stick mode was the only working.

being good with electronics I rebuilt the tig controller board. (15V TO 220 reg was broken off, board was cracked halfway, LV transformer had broken legs, someone drilled out the gas solenoid valve, some stupid non function mod with LEDs?, dry joints)

Well it works now, just haven't seen a descent mask yet. and haven't got a argon bottle yet.

First thing first, concrete in the shed. That come early spring, the weather it too shit atm.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

Luke Slammed & Awesome Dubber

78 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#853749
Man if That was in my area I'd be all over it like stink. I've hit a few tafes up around the area but they are not real interested. They just say we will take your name and number and if we get any interest we will call. 🙁