Structual steel plate weld test?

by Pedro
( Richmond Va)

On average how long should it take someone to learn how to weld using 7018 and be able to pass the 4g steel plate bend test?

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I was an instructor for several years and one of our classes was a stick welding class with a 3g and 4g plate test as the cert test.

5 days a week, 8 hours a day, the average was about 4 weeks to pass both tests.

But most of the students had a little welding background...some started from scratch

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