Notes about the courses.
These courses are designed to teach the techniques
required to build a boat.
Th courses used to be held at our local Tafe college, but
we now run all our courses at our main boatbuilding
facility in Cheltenham.
In the course, we cover welder types, MIG, pulse MIG, and
MIG welders fitted with different types of guns, normal,
snake, (long push type guns), and push pull guns.
We have many different brands of welders that the
students can use, these include Fronius, T&R, CIG,
UniMIG and Esseti. We use both single phase welders,
(240V), and also 3 phase welders, (415V) in the course.
The course also covers the setting up a welder for
aluminium, the items you have to change to run aluminium
in a convential MIG welder that has previously been setup
for steel. We cover items such as teflon liners,
"U" groove rollers, MIG gun types, wire types,
brands and other important information required for users
who may be attempting to build a boat.
At the course you will learn basic MIG welding techniques
with aluminium, using different welders. The course
covers all aspects of the welding and weld and edge
finishing, typical on a plate alloy boat.
After students get the basics of the welding, we cut a
boat kit, and together with the students, we build a
boat. We capture the pictorial build sequence and the
students are given a copy of the CD in addition to a
manual of the build and other information.
The vessel we build is always different from one course
to the next, but in most cases the vessel is 4 - 5 metres
in length.
If you would like information on the course, or would
like to discuss a custom course, call John on (03) 9555
6399.
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