On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:02:36 -0700, Ernie Leimkuhler
wrote:
In article ,
Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:24:09 -0700, Grant Erwin
wrote:
BobH wrote:

It's getting closer to October and I was wondering if this event was
still going to happen?

I'm going to jump in here, having just talked to Ernie. Ernie told me there
ain't gonna be a class unless someone down there pulls it together! He'll be
down there, but he's not going to recruit people, find a location, find
machines, find material to practice on, etc.

So if you SoCal guys want a welding class out of Ernie, you'd better get
crackin'!

The shop I had lined up for the class, called me Wed. Seems a guy
walked into the office and was surprised to find a functioning
business going on.

Seems the building owner sold it to him..didnt bother to tell the
company leasing it..and told him he could move in Oct 1.

Big news to the GM of the shop....so he called me..said Ive got
another Project.
G
YES!!!!

Now Ive got to line up movers, riggers and figure out how to take down
the 10,000 lb overhead traveling cranes..and move them, then set em up
again.

This is slightly complicated by the fact they havent found a building
to move into yet....

The clock is ticking.....and I suspect the lawyers are marshaling
forces (or should be....)

Oh, the people who own this shop had better have lawyers straining
at the leash if this is the first they've heard of it - I realize that
the legal protections are much less for commercial tenants than
residential, but they can't just walk in and say "Out, Now!" and
expect to get away with it.

If nothing else, the lawyers can stall for time. It's easy to fake
total incompetence and stretch it out.

90 days would be a bare minimum for reasonable. They might be able
to negotiate to let the new owners put their 'stuff' on one side of
the building while the old tenants shove their stuff to the other side
(and some temporary chain-link fencing down the middle) but that would
provide good leverage for getting time concessions.

Ive no idea where to spot a class area at this moment. But I'll make
sure welding power is the first to go in, when they find a building.

Ill be putting in automatic seam welders for those stainless steel
tanks they make...so ......

On the other hand..Ive never heard a word from Ernie on this either.

I don't have my own yet, but I have a friend with aspirations to buy
a TIG, and he recently landed a position at a BIG entertainment
industry shop in Sun Valley, I wonder if it has enough power there...
Hell, they have to have a "Company Switch" feeder box there - they
have to test run dimmer banks and stage lights, etc.

(We could always run an extension cord over to the LADWP Valley
Steam Plant - that should be enough...)

I need to call you, Gunner - same friend also might have some
connections on available space, depending on where they want to end
up. Couldn't hurt to ask...

Sorry, been a bit busy at school.
The window is still open for me.
I will have 2 weekends wide open with nothing to do but wander around
Anaheim...yechhh!

I will likely just read a lot of books and watch a lot of DVDs .

If all else fails, I can give you the R.C.M Tour of Disneyland and
DCA. There's a lot of gearhead stuff if you know where to look.

Fr'instance there are no lift chains on California Screamin', but
there are some BIG Honkin' Linear Induction Motors... (And some even
bigger capacitor banks and motor drives hidden under the pier.)