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Boat Building Courses: (Courses in Melbourne,
Victoria & Northern Territory & QUEENSLAND)
We run Aluminium Welding and Boat Building courses at
least 8 times per year. The courses are run at our
premesis, and are scheduled as weekly intensive courses.
For the past 19+ years, the courses have been held in
Melbourne, Australia, and we have had people attend from
around Australia and overseas including America, France,
Brazil, Columbia, New Zealand, Canada, Alaska, Korea,
etc.. The course is popular and are often booked out many
months in advance. From 2022, we are also holding courses
at our Queensland premesis, close to Hervey Bay, also in
Berrimah in Darwin
The courses are designed to teach the latest techniques
in Pulse MIG welding of aluminium using the worlds most
advanced welding equipment. The course covers aluminium
welding, and the boat building techniques required to
build a boat.
In 2005, we started teaching the courses at the local
Tafe college, but since 2007, we have run all our courses
at our main boatbuilding facility in Melbourne. 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 students can use,
these include Cebora, Fimer, Fronius, CEA, Unimig and
Others. 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 consider
building a plate alloy boat.
At the course you will learn basic MIG welding techniques
with aluminium, using these 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 USB, in addition to a manual of the build of
the vessel and other information regarding welding and
boatbuilding.
If you would like information on the course, or would
like to discuss an on-site course, call John on (03) 9555
6399.
The course dates are posted below. Note: There is
a maximum of 8-10 students in each class.
These courses are very popular, and if you are
interested, please email us and book in to one of the
courses
listed.
Course content, (typical):
- Induction to Safe
Workplace / OH&S & Mig Welder types
- Welding, fillet, butt
and corner to corner welds using different
welders & techniques
- Trim boat parts &
start boat assembly
- Boat kit assembly
tips and tricks
- Sanding and finishing
aluminium
- Continue / Finish
Boat Kit assembly
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