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At the tech college which I attend, my weld instructor welcomes student projects. I believe the auto body repair students are allowed to work on their own stuff. The auto body shop also accepts outside customer projects, but those are restricted to newer model cars, because rust repair is so time consuming. As for their liability, I attended classes there, in a wheelchair, for a time.

'Twas a challenge, to be sure. Their campus isn't perfectly handicapped accessible; but with determination, I got anywhere I needed to be.

If you go part time, and skip the core classes, just take the shop classes, it becomes exceptionally inexpensive, compared to equipment rental, or professional labor rates.

As example, I'm contemplating some custom headers: if I go through with it, then I'll cut-and-piece them together at the house, tacking them together. Then, I'll take them to class, and do all the welding using the school's weld supplies, and get class credit.

Maybe your local tech schools don't operate as such, but I would talk with the school's instructors personally, before I wrote it off completely.

Originally Posted by firebird77clone

At the tech college which I attend, my weld instructor welcomes student projects. I believe the auto body repair students are allowed to work on their own stuff. The auto body shop also accepts outside customer projects, but those are restricted to newer model cars, because rust repair is so time consuming. As for their liability, I attended classes there, in a wheelchair, for a time.

'Twas a challenge, to be sure. Their campus isn't perfectly handicapped accessible; but with determination, I got anywhere I needed to be.

If you go part time, and skip the core classes, just take the shop classes, it becomes exceptionally inexpensive, compared to equipment rental, or professional labor rates.

As example, I'm contemplating some custom headers: if I go through with it, then I'll cut-and-piece them together at the house, tacking them together. Then, I'll take them to class, and do all the welding using the school's weld supplies, and get class credit.

Maybe your local tech schools don't operate as such, but I would talk with the school's instructors personally, before I wrote it off completely.

I wish the local vocational school was an option...it's less than a half mile away. I've talked to administrators twice. When I tried to get into some kind of a welding course, I was told that they do not have the capacity to take "hobby students"...they only take students in degree or certification programs. When I tried to to get handicap adaptation work done on my Cougar, I was told that they do not do outside work. And I've never seen work-in-progress looking cars around to hint that they even do work on student's cars.