Does anyone know of scraping classes apart from Richard King?

If you guys watch the Keith Rucker You Tube show. His first class he hosted. He interviewed me and I said if someone really wanted to take a class and can't afford it, I give the class away under what I call a "Hardship clause" I have also helped several over the phone and email on "How to do it" for free. I am so proud of this experience.

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Special Scraping Class in Portland Oregon

I will be teaching a special one on one class in Portland Oregon the weekend of August 21 - 23. I am honored to be asked to teach the class for a special young man who is 15 and has some health issues and he will be getting the class from me for free and Make-A-Wish is buying him tools and...
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I wish I could afford to give my classes away, but can't. I do a class every couple of months and that's my income plus SS. I supply the class free of charge $25,000.00 worth of tools and teach you the best I can do using my 50+ years of experience. Many say my class and the info I teach is like trying to get a drink out of a firehose. You become part of a family of 40,000 + students and can always call me for advice. Plus hotel and travel expenses. I'm exhausted after teaching the classes. Takes me a week to recuperate.

If you really want to learn and have a hardship, I can fit 1 to 2 people into the classes no charge.

Rich
 
I was fortunate to take Richard's 40 hour scraping class in the Spring of 2018.
You will learn how to hand scrape the right way! and you'll learn how to power scrape.
In a very short time, you won't want to pick up the hand scraper again. A Biax power scraper will run close to $3,000 and up.
As a student in the class you will also be exposed to snippits of machine tool rebuilding. Like Richard says, you have to be a detective, the trick is knowing how much to take off and where.
Dive bombing, individual scrape marks, hinging, .
Lots and lots of tricks to this trade.

Consistent individual scrapes in a 90 degree (diagonal criss cross) pattern, will produce a flat surface for load bearing with oil pockets.
You will see guys that are self taught on Youtube that produce work that lack these qualities.
You really need to learn from someone that knows the proper way to scrape.
In my humble opinion.
 
I have several students in the PA area......I am also waiting for the Covid BS to end or slow down as I was going to Mechanicsburg PA to teach 2 weeks at Defense Logistics East. a big Defense plant. Maybe we can work something else too. I just checked and Reading is 13 hour drive to Fayetteville TN where I will hopefully doing a class in February or March and if you still are short of funds....we can do something to make it happen.... Rich
 
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Braeden P said:
Yea I probably will buy the CD to learn more and I am saving to go to a real class to be taught right.
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I think the most important question has not been asked yet: what makes you think that you need to learn scraping (or, more importantly, to learn it right now)?

If you are planning to get into machine restoration, then you'll have to learn it at some point. In that case, you should make a scraper from an old file (like all the old machinist books say), and attempt to learn it on your own from books and videos. Then, when you do eventually take the class, you'll get a lot more out of it, as you will have a frame of reference for what does and doesn't work.

If you are not planning to get into machine restoration, then your time may be better spent learning more immediately-useful skills. Scraping can be learned when you're of job age, if it still interests you.
 
ThinWoodsman said:
I think the most important question has not been asked yet: what makes you think that you need to learn scraping (or, more importantly, to learn it right now)?

If you are planning to get into machine restoration, then you'll have to learn it at some point. In that case, you should make a scraper from an old file (like all the old machinist books say), and attempt to learn it on your own from books and videos. Then, when you do eventually take the class, you'll get a lot more out of it, as you will have a frame of reference for what does and doesn't work.

If you are not planning to get into machine restoration, then your time may be better spent learning more immediately-useful skills. Scraping can be learned when you're of job age, if it still interests you.
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I am rescuing a brown and sharp 10ft straight edge and it deserves more than just being wall art so I will want that scraped in and a might be getting a metal planer with a 10 foot bed so I will need a big straight edge and probably will save old iron once my shop gets built. And I have built one with a file absolutely junk I have a chunk of 1in square carbide that got in a fight with the dremel turning it into a scraper blade but it just gouged the part so o will need to made a slow speed diamond wheel spiny thing to sharpen it.
 
Richard King 2 said:
I have several students in the PA area......I am also waiting for the Covid BS to end or slow down as I was going to Mechanicsburg PA to teach 2 weeks at Defense Logistics East. a big Defense plant. Maybe we can work something else too. I just checked and Reading is 13 hour drive to Fayetteville TN where I will hopefully doing a class in February or March and if you still are short of funds....we can do something to make it happen.... Rich
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I went to tuckahoe steam and gas museum two weeks ago for the show I got to do some scraping there by Pablo and got to see @DiscoDan and that trip was fun and seeing how good the Lucas HBM was scraped that is why I want to take a class to get some real knowledge instead of people on YouTube with tons of different ways and know I’m looking at a Milwaukee 6500 to convert instead of spending so much on a biax.
I was thinking about this sawzall for a conversion because it is really close to a biax in the big ball at the front and just flip the handle upside down but now I am getting ahead of myself here.

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Braeden P said:
I went to tuckahoe steam and gas museum two weeks ago for the show I got to do some scraping there by Pablo and got to see @DiscoDan and that trip was fun and seeing how good the Lucas HBM was scraped that is why I want to take a class to get some real knowledge instead of people on YouTube with tons of different ways and know I’m looking at a Milwaukee 6500 to convert instead of spending so much on a biax.
I was thinking about this sawzall for a conversion because it is really close to a biax in the big ball at the front and just flip the handle upside down but now I am getting ahead of myself here.

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I have one of those Milwaukee reciprocating saws. They are a beast. Be careful and be sure it is grounded since the case is metal.


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vtcnc said:
I have one of those Milwaukee reciprocating saws. They are a beast. Be careful and be sure it is grounded since the case is metal.


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Oh yea I will put a real cord on it so that it doesn’t kill me and I don’t like things not being grounded at all. And I chose that one because of the good design and the heft those oldies have.
 
Braeden, you are smart to realize that learning on You tube has its limitations (to say the least) especially when you have no context for what you're seeing.

Richard King is offering you an in to get his help learning the right way. Don't let a chance like this go by.

Tim
 
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