March 27th, 2010 at 6:02 pm » Comments (1)

Today, we have the welding test. It's also our final day. It was a ten week course yes - but we missed one week, and did two double weeks, so ...more »

March 23rd, 2010 at 9:52 pm » Comments (2)

So before I've even finished my 10 day course, I've been accepted to a 6 week course. Unlike the last course (Manual Metal Arc Welding) this one will be Oxy-Acetylene ...more »

March 20th, 2010 at 9:03 pm » Comments (0)

Laying perfect weld is always awesome. However, today was a remarkably stressful day because next week is the test. Trying to get each and every weld perfect can really stress ...more »

March 13th, 2010 at 8:54 pm » Comments (0)

Today was a good day. We kept on welding the three composite runs the same as we were doing last week: One foundation run, and two further runs for strength. However there ...more »

March 6th, 2010 at 1:47 am » Comments (0)

Today was an awful day. It was long, hot, and difficult. What's worse, I could not get into the swing of welding at all. Laying down loose welds, full of holes, ...more »

February 27th, 2010 at 12:52 am » Comments (0)

Back to work. This week we were doing multiple layers of weld on single joints. The top weld in the picture is a single weld, the bottom joint has one weld ...more »

February 20th, 2010 at 11:05 pm » Comments (0)

No Mad Industrialist today. One inch of snow and they called the whole thing off. I'd say all of us lads on the course would have made it. We love ...more »

February 6th, 2010 at 3:42 pm » Comments (0)

The Mad Welder! This here's my booth. After the jump the first pictures of my first welds. more »