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I am starting a Tig/Wire feed welder class in several weeks. Cover Tig and Mig welding.  The director of the program waived the pre-requisites because of my past welding experience. All in all the course will run me about $500. Seven weeks......two 4 hour classes a week!
Reply:I'm in an 8 week class, 1 day a week for 6 1/2 hours per day. $210Includes all consumables except tungstens.
Reply:i went for 4 semesters. first two were stick and like 600 some per sem. then the last two were mig and tig and 900 a semester. 2 nights a week 3hrs a night
Reply:Lincoln Electric Comprehensive 16 week course, 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday.  ~$5,000+.  Worth every penny.  You get out of it, what you put into it.Craig MontgomeryM&L Fabrication, LLChttps://www.facebook.com/pages/ML-Fa...8228829?ref=hl
Reply:Originally Posted by montgoc3Lincoln Electric Comprehensive 16 week course, 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday.  ~$5,000+.  Worth every penny.  You get out of it, what you put into it.
Reply:My Lincoln handbook lists a 5 week course with at least 150 hours of practice for $65."USMCPOP" First-born son: KIA  Iraq 1/26/05Syncrowave 250 w/ Coolmate 3Dialarc 250, Idealarc 250SP-175 +Firepower TIG 160S (gave the TA 161 STL to the son)Lincwelder AC180C (1952)Victor & Smith O/A torchesMiller spot welder
Reply:A lot of money.
Reply:I got PAID to learn......zap!I am not completely insane..Some parts are missing Professional Driver on a closed course....Do not attempt.Just because I'm a  dumbass don't mean that you can be too.So DON'T try any of this **** l do at home.
Reply:$150 per credit hour. The nice thing is my college lets you come in and take classes you aren't signed up for without getting credit if you are signed up for other welding classes...i.e., I'm signed up for 3 nights a week but come in for forth night for extra practice. For this semester for 3 classes I paid $1100 total, that includes an "Intro to welding", "Gas and Arc Welding 1" and "Blueprint Reading for Welders 1". The nice thing is I'm able to pay out of pocket for it and still go to my normal fulltime job. I'd love to take something like the Lincoln 16 week course for $5k but that's 4 months. I have to work and pay the bills so I can't take time off and go to a comprehensive, compressed course.
Reply:30+ years of labor and about $12 Million in earnings
Reply:Had to learn tig and wanted to for prsonal needs. 4 month 2 days a week nights 500.00
Reply:I paid $8,800 for a full-time 10 month program.
Reply:Well my dad taught me and it cost me one hell of a lot of swift kicks in the A.ss to learn it correctly. But I did learn it and good too.
Reply:Not a dime, they paid me.At workMillermatic 252Syncrowave 250DXAt HomeLincoln Pro Mig 140Lincoln AC/DC 225/125
Reply:I paid around $17,000 for  a 900 hour program with tools and consumables included.  I would say it was worth it for the most part.  I would not be as well off as I am now in technique and weld quality if I would not have went through the program.
Reply:all in all i would say $250,000+ and never stepped foot into a classroom.  Some things are learned the hard way.Vantage 500's LN-25's, VI-400's, cobramatics, Miller migs, synch 350 LX, Powcon inverters, XMT's, 250 Ton Acurrpress 12' brake, 1/4" 10' Atlantic shear,Koikie plasma table W/ esab plasmas. marvel & hyd-mech saws, pirrana & metal muncher punches.
Reply:Originally Posted by Fat Bastard30+ years of labor and about $12 Million in earnings
Reply:Originally Posted by rahtreelimbsI am starting a Tig/Wire feed welder class in several weeks. Cover Tig and Mig welding.  The director of the program waived the pre-requisites because of my past welding experience. All in all the course will run me about $500. Seven weeks......two 4 hour classes a week!
Reply:Pain, suffering, years of my life........oh you meant real paid for schooling.....Disclaimer; "I am just an a$$hole welder, don't take it personally ."
Reply:Ironworkers Apprenticeship. They paid me.L.U. 492 Nashville TN
Reply:Where I go it costs about $350 a class. A class is two days a week for four hours for four months. To get the structural welder cert it takes four classes and the combo welder cert is eight classes. Way cheaper than the $11000 it costs for tulsa welding school or the $14000 for hobart school.
Reply:... It costs a lot more than 11k at Tulsa welding school now. I went in 2004 and it was around 10,000. Last I heard from someone going (about a year ago) it was about 18,000!!!  That's ridiculous. I can't believe I paid as much as I did, but I cant complain. I still learned on the jobs I worked, but I think I could get a job just about anywhere now. (No thanks to TWS).Lincoln Idealarc Tig 300/300, Lincoln ranger 8, Lincoln LN-25, Miller Sidekick (keeps rockin!), Oxy/Acy torch, Miller XMT-304 with a Miller 60 series wire feeder and high freq. box, Profax positioner 8" chuck, Aaronson 3500# positioner 15" chuck
Reply:$18000!!!!!! That's crazy!