Bit the bullet. SIgned up yesterday for the trade course in fitting and turning. Will take me a year, but at the end of it I will know what you guys are talking about! - and be able to do things properly without wrecking tools, make two indentical things the same size, and not be wondering "what the F**** is that tool for........"
Andrew VK3BFA.
Congratulations, Andrew!
To get the most out of your investment in time and money I would encourage you to ask lots of thoughtful questions, ie. ones that the text books skim over.
Also feel free to post any relevant questions here.
Good luck!
Wolfgang
Andrew VK3BFA wrote:
Hey Andrew,
Good for you. You can never have too many skills or too much education.
Will this be a "full-time" day-time course, or evenings, or what, and where?
Take care.
Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario.
It will be one full day a week - that suits me as I am running my own small business - its the apprentice program, so they get day release to do it. Hopefully be able to do extra stuff at night classes. It will be very basic stuff at first, but since my last formal metalwork was at school over 30 years ago, dont mind at all. Later sections will deal with CAD software, CNC stuff - but at the moment, I want to get the basics of learning how to do precision measurements, marking out, how to use a manual lathe and mill.
This group has been fantastic - much friendly advice to a newcomer, a good spirit of sharing. Thank you all - I have learnt SO much by lurking, following links. Doing this course is the next step in my education.
Andrew VK3BFA.
Goodonya Andrew Where are you doing it? I should do something like that myself. I'm pretty close to what used to be called Moorabbin TAFE so might try that in a little while. What is the course called? .The problem with being retired, is you just don't have the time to do all the things you want to. Maybe next year.
Tom
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