Dot wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:41 pm
If you get into a bigish town ask at the uni or what ever if they would like someone to do a night school, work on you're bus in days when you feel well enough maybe the students could be your students and do the work for you (Hands on experience)
Doesn't work like that here in NSW, TAFE teachers are very catty bunch and keep any vacancies like that for their mates. The mechanical trade is now 1 week a mth at Tafe, all book work, they other 3 weeks are at their employers workshop and the employer signs off on the practical work assignments set by the Tafe. Often, they will swap around apprentices between shops if they don't have much of the type of work required for that practical assignment.
We did everything at my workshop, apprentices would apply to do some of their training with us, so they got good hands on experience, carburettors was a popular one, I'd give them the job from removal from the vehicle to strip, soak and clean, then show them how the bodies were straightened, where the problem areas were, but they'd have to remember how to reassemble them .... but I'd end up helping most of them out, the panicked look on their faces after they had cleaned all the parts and then told to put it back together

Some of them were lucky and just got a single throat Stromberg or a Holley, the ones that got a Thermoquad 4 brl off a Ford or a Rochester of a Holden, certainly worked hard for their sign off ..... it all had to be same day, no leaving the bits over night and making a second attempt the next day ... some would be there till 9pm, but they got their carby back on and got to tune it on the dyno, so they were all happy with the experience .....
T1 Terry