butt welds

Joe, a second year student painted a motorcycle tank in his spare time. As you can see, the tank looks great. The second year students have been extremely busy performing live work. We are studying weld-on panels, sectioning, door skins, and adhesive so we will be ready for these types of jobs as we get them.

The first-year student just started welding. We spend six weeks performing lap welds, butt welds, butt welds with a backing plate, and plug welds. Each student must perform each one of these welds in a flat, vertical, and overhead position that must pass a destructive test. This sounds scary to many students if they have never welded before, but we have a lot of time to get it right. If the student shows up every day and practices these welds repetitively, they will have no problem when it comes to testing the welds.

Check back and we will keep you posted with our progress.

The 1st-year BCC Collision Repair students have been busy learning how to properly weld using various methods to perform different types of welds. They have also been busy by preparing a student led lesson for welding. Teams of (3) are responsible to conduct a 15 minute lecture with visual aides and props, create and administrate a quiz over the content, and demonstrate the task in the lab. They were given an outline of the requirements needed for this assignment and they will be graded by their performance and how well the other students performed on the quiz.

Below is one of the lab demonstrations given over plug welds.

Victor demonstrates how to perform a plug weld

We also have student led lessons on fillet welds, butt welds, and butt welds with a backing plate.

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BCC Student Demonstrates Plug Welding