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Gavin John Hyde

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Been helping a friend put some conduit up today to run cat5e and phone cable down to the shed/office in his garden.
His son is doing a plumbing course at college and was keen to help with the conduit and bending,
His method of putting an off set into the conduit was to get a butane torch and warm it up until he could basically form it into shape.
We let him carry on and watched with interest, he let the conduit go pretty soft, but not melt, he kept the torch about 5 inches from the conduit and kept it moving, then put the end into the adaptor in the pattress box. then whilst still soft bent the off set in so looked tidy and placed the upright part into the saddle, held it in place and used wet rag to set it good.
Have to say i never had considered doing that myself, i was about to get the bending spring out.
I asked him is this what they teach you at college these days? his answer was interesting, they don't teach us much to be fair, its mainly health and safety rubbish and then how to pass the course assessments, He says he learns more watching youtube! Sad really as he clearly wants to learn and thankfully has an apprenticeship lined up now after struggling to get taken on.
That pretty much sums up the courses in college these days, teach to pass not teach to actually give somebody a skill they can use and build upon. I had a lad work with me for a bit of experience recently, he had nearly finished his 2365 L3 and was next to useless at bending metal conduit, had to teach him how to mark it out and bend correctly.
 
I echo his comments tbh. Personally it seems theres far too many students that are not interested, almost like that are being forced to be there.

I don't know if this has an effect on the teaching styles/appraoches of the tutors but personally it does feel like they just want to rush you through things without a thorough explanation or detail. I have learnt a lot from YouTube/this forum and other online resources.

Iv realised I'm better off doing my own personal research and further development and just get through my apprenticeship. Luckily I'm hard on myself so it's not a problem and I think I'll still finish my apprenticeship with a good and varied array of skills.
 
In the last year of college I learnt a couple of things especially as the idiots at work decided to send me out on a Friday, don't drink triple vodkas at lunch time, Sally the hottie from the secretarial side of the college usually wore red knickers under her leather mini skirt and was very nimble in the space of a Ford Capri. Damn I miss that 1.6S ;o))))

And don't be fecked off your face when sitting the approved electricians exam..........
 

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