Week 2 of Practicum

I've been visiting around and checking out what people are doing on their practicums. Everybody seems to be getting a chance to work on a wide variety of things. Employers have been pleased with the skill and commitment levels. Everyone is reporting that they have been able to put their new skills to good use.

Week 30 Day 2 Welding workshop

Bill Plett from ACC conducted a one-day welding workshop. 

Oxy-acetylene cutting, pipe welding and braze wedling

Week 30, Day 1

Prep for welding workshop.
Welding theory and Welding safety.

Week 29, Day 5. Last day of class work for Pipe 0012 and 0013.

Here is a link to one of the systems that recovers heat from DWV piping systems, Might be a thing in the not too distant

http://www.renewability.com/power_pipe/how_works.html

Roll your own! You have the technology.




Bidet toilet seats. https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.white-elongated-heated-bidet-toilet-seat-s900.1000726864.html

Week 29, Day 4

While we are talking about septic tanks it is a good time to review the requirements for confined space entry in the Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Regulations. See Section Section 15. 

Week 29, Day 3

Field trip to ACC!!
BBQ lunch,
Tour of facility shops and classrooms.
Meet with In
Meeting with apprenticeship instructors and
Ken Falloon the apprenticeship coordinator.

In the meantime watch this video on the issues around water borne wastes and the notion that there is no such thing as downstream. We are all downstream of something.

National Film Board presents Crapshoot: The Gamble with our Wastes