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Switching To Water Borne Paint – The Transition To Green
College classes were canceled today at Butler Community College due to a snow storm. However, training continues for the collision repair program. Well, for the instructor, not the students. Our advisory board members recommended that we teach our students how to spray water borne at our last meeting. Therefore, today I traveled to Kansas City, […]
Adding Not Included Operations To Your Auto Estimates
First Year StudentsThe first year students are currently learning how to write auto repair estimates. One of the things we are focusing on is not-included items. The reason this is important is because many estimators in the industry are missing a lot of the not-included items. After researching and asking the industry for feedback from […]
Good Advice From Nickleback
This post has nothing to do with collision repair, but it sounds like some good advice to follow. This is the first year since I have been teaching at Butler that I am seeing some friction between students. When I taught in Texas, dealing with friction in the classroom, gang issues, fights, and disipline was […]
Starting Out Second Semester in Auto Tech
Starting Out Second Semesterby Michaelene Lucas1/21/10Forget review….dive right in! In engine performance and suspension & steering we went over chapters 53 (EP) & 83 (ST). There are several projects going down in the lab. Auto tech instructor Mike had me replacing an alternator and we had to repair an air filter box that was broke […]