5 March 1986 Welding courses held at Lincoln College

Five three-day courses on electric arc welding, gas welding, and fitting and turning are being offered by the Rural Development and Extension Centre at Lincoln College this year.

The first two courses, one in gas welding and the other in arc welding, will be held on May 13, 14 and 15.

On August 26, 27 and 28 there will be two courses : one gas welding, the other arc welding.

The fitting and turning course will be held on November 18, 19 and 20.

Places are being offered on the courses to those from rural districts, farmers, farmers' wives and any others interested.

All the courses will be held in the teaching workshops at Lincoln College, and classes will be limited to 10 people.

Accommodation will be available at the college for those on the courses.

The cost of the course is $70 for tuition and materials, and accommodation for two nights also costs $70.

Both the gas-welding and arc welding courses will have an emphasis on safety.

Introduction to the gas welding course will deal with flame settings, and then there will be instruction on edge, corner and butt welding, welding with filler rods, positional welding of butt and corner welds, butt and tee joints in tube, bronze welding - both the flow method and galvanized pipe - and gas cutting.

Instruction on electric welding will cover an introduction to both plant and electrodes, straight bead welds on flate plate, pad welding and edge build-up, downhand butt and fillet welding, multipass downhand and fillet welding, butt joints, fillet and tee joints in galvanized pipes, and positional welding.

Turning will cover basic tool grinding, plain turning, roughing out and finishing cuts, drilling and drill grinding, thread identification, tool setting and screw cutting, and turning brass, aluminium, iron and bright mild steel.

Further information about the course can be had from the Rural Development and Extension Centre, Lincoln College 8150