ping Ernie and Gunner California TIG class?

I'm going to jump in here, having just talked to Ernie. Ernie told me there ain't gonna be a class unless someone down there pulls it together! He'll be down there, but he's not going to recruit people, find a location, find machines, find material to practice on, etc.

So if you SoCal guys want a welding class out of Ernie, you'd better get crackin'!

Grant

Hmm, if Ernie ever comes to St. Louis, I could set up a class of eager wannabe TIGers real quick. I know a bunch of people who own TIG machines of a variety of sizes, mostly Miller, but I have a Lincoln, and would be real eager to learn from a real pro!

Jon

I don't have time to put a class together, but if one should happen in either Sacramento Valley or the Bay Area, I'd be there with my machine.

One in SL would be close enough that I'd go and bring my Syncrowave 250.

The shop I had lined up for the class, called me Wed. Seems a guy walked into the office and was surprised to find a functioning business going on.

Seems the building owner sold it to him..didnt bother to tell the company leasing it..and told him he could move in Oct 1.

Big news to the GM of the shop....so he called me..said Ive got another Project.

YES!!!!

Now Ive got to line up movers, riggers and figure out how to take down the 10,000 lb overhead traveling cranes..and move them, then set em up again.

This is slightly complicated by the fact they havent found a building to move into yet....

The clock is ticking.....and I suspect the lawyers are marshaling forces (or should be....)

Ive no idea where to spot a class area at this moment. But Ill make sure welding power is the first to go in, when they find a building.

Ill be putting in automatic seam welders for those stainless steel tanks they make...so ......

On the other hand..Ive never heard a word from Ernie on this either.

Gunner

Thanks Grant. There is not a lot I can contribute to this since I am not in California, other than possibly loading up my machine and some material and driving over.

From Gunners post, it looks like he is going to be one busy guy for a while.

Thanks, BobH

Sorry, been a bit busy at school. The window is still open for me. I will have 2 weekends wide open with nothing to do but wander around Anaheim...yechhh!

I will likely just read a lot of books and watch a lot of DVDs .

I'd do the same thing!!!

Come on Ernie! St. Louis is calling you!!!

Stuart

Oh, the people who own this shop had better have lawyers straining at the leash if this is the first they've heard of it - I realize that the legal protections are much less for commercial tenants than residential, but they can't just walk in and say "Out, Now!" and expect to get away with it.

If nothing else, the lawyers can stall for time. It's easy to fake total incompetence and stretch it out.

90 days would be a bare minimum for reasonable. They might be able to negotiate to let the new owners put their 'stuff' on one side of the building while the old tenants shove their stuff to the other side (and some temporary chain-link fencing down the middle) but that would provide good leverage for getting time concessions.

I don't have my own yet, but I have a friend with aspirations to buy a TIG, and he recently landed a position at a BIG entertainment industry shop in Sun Valley, I wonder if it has enough power there... Hell, they have to have a "Company Switch" feeder box there - they have to test run dimmer banks and stage lights, etc.

(We could always run an extension cord over to the LADWP Valley Steam Plant - that should be enough...)

I need to call you, Gunner - same friend also might have some connections on available space, depending on where they want to end up. Couldn't hurt to ask...

If all else fails, I can give you the R.C.M Tour of Disneyland and DCA. There's a lot of gearhead stuff if you know where to look.

Fr'instance there are no lift chains on California Screamin', but there are some BIG Honkin' Linear Induction Motors... (And some even bigger capacitor banks and motor drives hidden under the pier.)

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I can bring at least one tig machine to the party. Maybe 2. The one I loaned to one friend, I got back today. The other, sits unused in the other friends shop.

My big Squarewave 300,,,,thats not going anywhere.

Gunner

It all comes down to the lease and the notification provisions in it. If the lease says 30 days, then no judge will give you anything good, and might hit you with damages to the other guy for his loss of use, if they gave you 30 days to get out. The new owner might have an issue with the disclosures from the seller, since he expected an empty building...

Of course, there might have been a colossal mis-communication where each party thought the other had evicted the original tenant...90 days later...what are they still here for?

Great fun.

That might be more expensive than moving...

And I sure hope that's what they had in their lease when they wrote it.