tempaire1

you can park outside ok from what i can remember, where to stay well it is willsden choose wisely i am sure they is accomodation like travel lodge locally.

Brownie

As tempaire said i also think you can park outside the college. Not to sure about decent accomodation off hand. I am sure there must be something close as Wembly is only down the road.

chris96

Karl,

I've lost your number, give me ring tomorrow mate

Chris.

571090

thanks chaps , i will look into a good digs , i can only assume from the statement that wilsden is not the best place in the world . regards karl .
ps will give you a bell in morning chris.

FlyingPicketts

Yeah I went there and the area is a dump! Don't take a van full of tools and park around there!! I think Willesden has a tube station nearby....try and stay outside of the area and commute in. Good luck to all.
Phil

571090

cheers phil and all the others for the advice , lets hope it all goes well for everyone whos going on it , regards . karl.

tempaire1

good luck to all those taking practical on monday 7th april

Brownie

So Guys, How was it?
What sort of tasks did you have to do?
Was there many people there?

tempaire1

hi to all, just waiting for the results to come through so you can apprieciate that not many would want to put anything on the forum as yet but i would have liked some info so just brushing over the day. on arrival registration then taken to work shop was given varying assignments to do on 5 work stations 5 attended with 1 assessor and 2 assistants they just want you to show competancy if you do ac install/splits dont bother more so fridge set up
would learn how to test compr 1 & 3 phase and be able to draw star/delta the rest is straight forward proceedures pressure test de-hydration charging and logging of superheat low/high pressure settings and such like, note aussies do not use bar or psig so would get use to using kpa (psig x 6.89)
will not say anymore do not want to tempt fate but if you know what you are doing you will be fine, you do get asked loads of questions if they feel you are stuggling as some found out. to all the guys who went well done.

571090

for god sake dont use a haksaw to cut tube , use a junior , agreed tempaire.

tempaire1

ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.

well i could add to the list hammer, ting, thingy, and dont forget the knife and fork, take extra food theres always someone who pleads poverty ha,ha,ha i had to come out with that one, and go to the gym if you need to carry tools, long walk, now i am crying, last of all a fire exstinguisher and some ear plugs.

Brownie

Thanks tempaire1 for the info hope it went ok for you all. Just waiting to here when i will be doing it, think the next one is around June.
At least i have a rough idea what i will be doing now.

Fingers crossed guys

571090

you will be fine mate , but if you mainly work on air con then you need to brush up on your fridge side , semi hermetics , rotalock valves , solonoid valves etc , the examiner will make you feel relaxed , in honesty after the first hour i started to enjoy the assessment , i think tempaire will agree with me .
if you know what you are doing you will be fine , but you must be hot on your health and safety and also demonstrate good working practice , our assessor was old school [ he knew what he was talking about ] not a jumped up college boy , he explained the tasks in laymans terms , that in itself made you feel more at ease about the assessment , like tempaire said before we dont want to jump the gun and say we passed it easy because things like this have a nasty habit of biting you on the arse , regards.karl.

tempaire1

totally agree karl,but am looking at post daily thinking by some chance results will come early just done medicals, company would like me to start aug everything a rush but good fun, did they say they would email results as well could not remember please remind if so.also did you get your new employee ha ha.

571090

hi boss , i think they said that they would email us when the results come through , i think it will probably be the back end of next week before we hear anything [ fingers crossed ] i am going to the middle east next week to recrute engineers , fancy coming , regarding the medical did they ask you to cough , regards.
karl.