Interest in an "intro to welding" class?

[mattadams]

I stopped by Off-Road Innovations today, great place, gotta say they'll probably be getting my business from here on out. They mentioned that some Saturdays they offer intro to welding courses where they basically take people that have never welded in their life, explain some of the different welders, and let them test some welding out for a few hours. Would there be any interest in this?
i didn't ask if there was any cost for this, but its something I'd definately like to do.

[CNTRYCOWBOY]

I'm definatly game, i have ton of stuff that needs to be welded on the truck

[Walking Eagle]

I have no interest in learning how to weld, but I'll have to ask them how much to weld my shock mount that I cracked.

[crazy rob]

I'd like to learn how.

[rino351]

I know some of the basics, but would be really interested in learning more about it!!

[Heath]

Oh me... me me me... I want to go!!!

[clavos]

I was thinking of picking up a welding class somewhere once I graduate. This would be great to see if I would like it without costing a lot of time or money.

[Glass]

Hopefully ill be learning to weld if we decide to make a snow bucket for our loader....dont know what were gonna do yet...if i have wheels, and gas..im deffinently interested.


---JOHN

[UrbanCowboy]

My friend has a welder and I was hoping to start doing some fabrication over the winter. My friend's welding skills are severly lacking so I would definately be intested in a class. Oh, and Hi all. Nice to meet you. :D

[rino351]

WELCOME to the site!!

[twotone]

i would be interested in taking a welding class, i've been interested in learning how to weld for awhile now...

[drklawz]

Matt, I'm definately in. I've been eyeing up an El Cheapo harbor Freight MIG welder to screw around with... guess a class on not buring down the garage would be helpful :)

[mattadams]

I talked to the folks about this class, they said they'll try to set one up where we can have some members attend, and it is free, FYI.

[rino351]

oooohhh FREE!!
Now I am really really interested.

[y33dave]

I would like to attend if the timing is right ~

Dave

[RockingRobin69]

I'd be interested in this as well. I can make metal stick to each other but it looks like hell. :shock:

Robin...

[crazy rob]

Matt did i hear you right today? You said ORI said that we just needed to schedule a date and time to have the welding class? FI so, lets start figuring out a date, i want to go and need to probably need to see if I can get the day off.

[mattadams]

yeah I will alk to them sometime this week and confirm ha fact. I still need to get my gears installed... LOL.

[crazy rob]

So Matt, did you talk to them???

[clavos]

Yeah, whats up?

[mattadams]

yes, we are looking into times that will work for everyone.
So anyone interested in going in the next few weeks? Post what weeks will or won't work for you and we will try to work out something.

[rino351]

I'm free after 4 pm for the next few weeks
and weekends

[clavos]

I can make time on the weekends for the next few weeks. Not much going on with the onset of cold weather.

[UrbanCowboy]

I can do any Saturday......and thats it. :( I work 6 says a week and can't get time off easy. Something about essential personnel.

[CNTRYCOWBOY]

i'm good to go on saturday mornings and sundays.

[y33dave]

I can usually do sometime during the weekend ... as long as it doesn't take up my whole day

[CNTRYCOWBOY]

any word on this yet?

[mattadams]

Jeez I really dropped the ball on this one, I totally spaced it, my bad. I need to go in there soon to work on getting my gears done, I will talk to them about it then.
Sorry!

[UrbanCowboy]

I tried to Weld last weekend and ended up in the emergency room with 3rd degree burns. I sure wish I would have had a class........ :lol:

[crazy rob]

Matt, any word on this???

[mattadams]

I talked to them and they are going to try to figure out what dates work.
Everyone still ok with a Saturday?

[UrbanCowboy]

Name the Saturday and I'll be there.

[CNTRYCOWBOY]

I'm guessing this would be during the day on saturday? If so I'm game!!!

[clavos]

Saturday would be good, as long as it doesn't interfere with previous plans.

[crazy rob]

The real reason I would like to have this class is b/c I have some floor boards that the guy who had the bronco before me replaced the rusted old ones with...well he just riveted the new ones over the old. Not very safe, it holds for now but one day I would like to take care of it with welds.

[UrbanCowboy]

There is talk about an ORI welding class on Co4x4. Are we every going to get a club class together or should I sign up for this other one?

[mattadams]

we are going to do it. I'm already in talks with them on it, just trying to figure out scheduling and time and so forth. I will hopefully know something within a day or two.

[mattadams]

OK, we are still looking into a weekend that will work for ORI... but I wanted to let you know what they told me. They said we can do a straight welding course, where we just learn the basics of welding steel together, etc. It's a freebie. Or for $20 each we can do a fabrication/welding class, which also includes bending some tubes (they give us each a tube to play with which is why it costs a little extra), the welding behind it, etc.
What would more people be interested in?

[drklawz]

Sounds great! I could shell out $20 or so to get the most out of the class. Just schedule the feakin' thing!

[mattadams]

yeah unfortunately its not quite that easy. They are a fairly small shop and sometimes they schedule installs on saturday, and sometimes they don't do shop stuff on Saturday, and then they are trying to plan a session or two for the colorado4x4 group as well, so we're just working on finding a good solution for days that will work for everyone.
I told them we'd have about 6-10 people, so hopefully all those that have said they are coming will show up, once we actually get it all scheduled! :).

[UrbanCowboy]

I could go either way. I would happily pay $20 to do more. However, I will never be able to afford a bender so it would be more fun than anything. Now welding..... I can afford a welder.

Terry

[CNTRYCOWBOY]

I'll pay the $20 extra, I wanna be able to make a roll cage one day!!!!

[rino351]

I could probably cough up an extra $20

[clavos]

If by some miracle this occurs on a date that I can make it, I'll gladly fork over $20.

[ProjectAviator]

I want to learn to weld, count me in on either weekend day. I would gladly come down to learn.

Where is ORI?

Tim

[mattadams]

Tim, ORI is on the south end of town, sorry its pretty far for you I know... its near I-25 and Arapahoe.

[ProjectAviator]

NO biggie. I just hope my explorer is out of th shop by the time I come down.

Would just need directions

Tim

[UrbanCowboy]

Looks like they're making progress with the co4x4.com class....

* March 5th and 12th
or
* Marth 26th and April 2nd

[ahhjaws]

I'd be interested too. And $20 is no big deal. Any Sat would work, I just need to know at least week or two before hand so I can get time off.

[mattadams]

I assume whatever dates they choose for colorado4x4, we'll be one of the opposites... since we're about 3% of the size of colorado 4x4, thats their top priority... so unfortunately just have to wait til they have a good Saturday to get us all in on.

[UrbanCowboy]

Well I've passed up Both Co4x4.org welding classes. Hope that doesn't bite me in the butt.

[mattadams]

Well all I can do is try to get them to schedule it for us. I keep bugging them about it, and they keep saying they are trying to arrange for a free Saturday for us. That's all I can do.

[mattadams]

Here is what I've heard from ORI. I guess if you really want to get this done in a hurry, try to get in with one of the Colorado4x4 classes... I figured we were a higher priority for them :(. Not much I can do I guess.

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Matt,
We're running a couple of Colorado4x4.org classes through March and early April and have our grand opening planned for mid April. So looks like early May would be the earliest (we've promised Doug and Jack a couple of weekends off the end of April).

For this round of classes we determined that $25 per participant was
appropriate to cover materials and instructors time. For the 4x4.org groups we're including some fabrication as well. Let's touch base again in April and see what we can get figured out.

Paula
~~~~~~~~~~

[UrbanCowboy]

Crap!!! The classes are all full now dude. I was so hoping to start adding armor to the truck in the next month or so. Crap.

[mattadams]

Sorry bud, I figured they meant we'd be doing it within a few weeks, not a few months, when I talked to them last.
Anyways, I'm going to see if I can "squeeze" you into one of the other classes, but no promises or anything.

[1 EYE]

:D I think thats a great idea i would like to learn myself seeing how my body rust is tryin to take over the truck lol

[mattadams]

yeah, they are still working on scheduling us one. They've been scheduling them like every other weekend for the colorado4x4 group and everytime i ask they say they are too busy, ugh :(.

[hottruck108]

Please let us know I'm in!!

[Walker2970]

sounds kind of like i need to buy a welder and invite every one over to my place lol after all i passed the U.A. welding cert's (x-ray test)


Jake

[clavos]

Don't know what the U.A. is, but I'll throw 10 bucks into the welder fund for the first lesson.