Crash Course in Welding?

danhutch · Jun 22, 2014

Hey there, ive recently started a project to rebuild a series 3 from 2 donor cars and a chassis, and now its dawning on me that welding will be required at some point or another. Which leads me to a slightly odd question, is there any on in the midlands area that could give me a crash course in welding, or even just some kind of insight.

Kind Regards

Hutch

joe27979 · Jun 23, 2014

lots if vids on YouTube, for background reading try these:

Arc Welding Tutorial

How to MIG Weld - Tutorial

Learning to Weld

owl · Jun 23, 2014

Your not far from me, pop over for a couple of hours. also read the tutorials posted above

ronsealdeath · Jun 23, 2014

Local colleges here do courses in evening for £80 a term or £200 for a more advanced one.

owl · Jun 23, 2014

ronsealdeath said:
Local colleges here do courses in evening for £80 a term or £200 for a more advanced one.

Yes they are very good, I did a 2 year city and guilds course. It was two evenings a week and the instructor was an retired Lloyds certificated pressure welder. We did gas, stick and mig plus metallurgy. beats watching tv and a pint after on the way home.

I will never forget watching the instructor doing overhead but welds with stick, perfect welds on both sides of the plate. He was pushing the rod through the gap and putting a bead on top then pulling it back and doing a bead underneath.

dominicbeesley · Jun 23, 2014

A friend and I got in touch with Martin from MK Engineering not quite midlands but not too far. He gave us a two hour primer on MIG with a quick overview of TIG. Wasn't too expensive and he was a good teacher. Not too much ****ing around with H&S but just enough. We got stuck in straight away. A lot of these courses spend ages telling you a load of ****e you'd be better reading from a book / the net. What I wanted, and got, was someone to watch me do it and tell me where I was going wrong.

I wouldn't say my welding is good but its ok....I probably should go back for a refresher.

danhutch · Jun 23, 2014

i will watch those vids and do some reading, when will you be free own and where are u based? can you inbox me?

danhutch · Jun 23, 2014

p.s. thanks for the responses guys, more than helpful

owl · Jun 23, 2014

pm sent

aaronledwidge · Jun 27, 2014

What mig do you have, this will have a huge bearing as to how much of a struggle you can have.

Make sure you clean the metal as much as you can and use decent gas not co2. As for practicing use good clean steel watch some vids and play on a bench.

Mig welding.co.UK has a lot of good info too.

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