There is only so much you can learn about welding from watching youtube tutorials and reading books. In the end you have to get some master guidance and then lots of practice. So with that in mind, TVOR and I set off to Coventry to spend a couple of days in the company of expert welder Tom at the Coventry Welding Workshop.
CWW appears to be joined with CBW (Coventry Building Workshop) where a number of youths seemed very productive in the plastering and bricklaying bays. However on the other side of the wall - in the CWW welding bays, TVOR and I had the place to ourselves. Heaven :-)
We had requested some hands on TIG learning with minimal theory and plenty of practise - and that is exactly what we got. Within minutes of arriving, Tom had us welding! He demonstrated a couple of runs (making it look of course Oh-so-simple) and then got us to work.
When I booked the course I mentioned that I was building a trike out of 2" pipe so Tom had read prepared for us a tray of cut and beveled 2" pipes - it was clear that he wasnt going to let us stand around doing nothing.
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