He is now retired, but has tentatively offered to come up to the Museum for the week of 9-13 November to run a comprehensive crash course on arcade and pin repair .
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for those who are serious about repair / operators , as he has never taught in Canada before. He ran an arcade school for many years, and has trained lots and lots of experts the world over.
Positions are limited to 9 and price to be determined , but will probably be in the neighbourhood of 600-800 $ for the week.
I have to book this ASAP to get him, and I do have public who would snap this training up, especially at this price.
We will still be carrying on with our small workshops, but look at this as an opportunity for a train the trainer program!
PM me if interested
PS If their is sufficient demand, an additional training course in the future may be possibly arranged
I’m in the same boat, no moolah right now. Too bad because I’m in dire need for this type of training! This is an awesome initiative Gerald, awesome and if in the future my finances can be upgraded a bit and you do another one of these, I’d jump at the chance.
Something to consider though, for training to be very effective, sometimes a minimum amount of knowledge should already be known, especially if the course is geared towards a “training the trainer” level as this appears to be. I’ve not seen any prerequisites required so I’m assuming it’s for any who want to attend. What could happen is you might end up with two different types of audiences: a beginner and a more advanced group. Does his training session take that into consideration? If not, this could end up being frustrating to either of the demographics, pending the target audience of course.
This is for people with little to no knowledge, and he will work from there. That is why it is going to be a small class, for a lot of one on one training. Naturally there may be some people at more advanced levels, but he will quickly bring novices up to that level. Also, if the entire class is at an advanced level already, it may result in an elevated level of training / pinball centric stuff.
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I have his video and print training materials. He is entertaining. His standard training is aimed at new slot machine / arcade techs with no training in electronics, so he goes over the very basics (what is a resistor, etc.) and works his way up to specifics (though I am sure you can have him start at whatever level you feel is appropriate to the audience being trained).
Yes, he starts from the beginning. I also have the video and print training dvd's, think it might be worthwhile to have a "pre course" for free, covering a lot of basic info, so as to bring others up to a basic standard, to maximize our time with him.
I will probably include the following with cost of tuition:
Full electronic tool suite T shirt lunches provided ( Hope you like hot dogs and beef patties, just joking brother in law is a chef) starter supply of parts ( Lots of caps) and for a nominal extra charge, probably a project game that will be fully up and running at the end of it by your own hand!
Let me know guys,check the kijiji wanted ads right now all over Ontario to see how many people can use the services of this " dying art"
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The hours would be agreeable to all, not too early, but not too late. As he would be in town primarily to help us out, I could see it going late a few evenings to get maximum bang for the buck
Im thinking something along the lines of 9-5, but if everyone is an early bird, we could start at say 8 or even 7
It will largely depend on the composition of the class It will be everyday from Monday to friday, with a little "graduation ceremony" on the Fri afternoon
Ok so... whom ever is emailing me about my pin project laser ball on kijiji and thinks I am Gerald... please stop sending me your emails for Gerald and not leaving your email so I can write back and let you know your messaging the wrong guy. If your looking for someone on here why not pm them here rather then assume their ads on kijiji are from someone else... Its pretty annoying to not be able to write back because you dont put in your proper email and are having a one sided conversation with the totally wrong person. I wont post what your writing on here but im sure you know who you are obviously since you were refering to this forum post you will see this. Dont mean to come off harsh but you know what they say about assuming...
Sounds intersting... my hats off and respect to Randy.
No disrespect, but I did a basic monitor repair seminar for about 30 members of CGCA last year... no charge at my shop. Hamburgers on me and a number of the guys brought stuff like water, pop chips...
I did the same seminar for over 160 techs from Chuck E Cheese in Vegas.
Randy's costs need to be covered so the price is reasonable.
I think the cost and the time comitment is a deterent for most. If it will help reduce the costs and time involved, I would be happy to offer to do a prelim of the same seminar. Only need 2~3 hours.
Yes I see your point, thanks for that. The idea with this training is it will be comprehensive and go into a lot more than monitor repair ( Although it can be a big part of it), but he will also be doing some pinball stuff, and actually quite a bit of it I hope. There may be a good opportunity for you to do a pretraining class if you wish. PM me if you are interested.
Anyone who wants to know, here is my email address
Reference the above few posts regarding a 2-3 hour seminar, and another's intention to prefer that, I completely understand your point. As I stated in the first post, this is directed towards operators, and those who are serious about learning comprehensive arcade repair techniques over 40 hrs of instruction or more. In my travels, and through the operators I have been in touch with ( One actually approached me with this suggestion to host Randy, I agreeed to facilitate it), there is a complete lack of qualified commercial technicians to be able to service their games, or those that are helping them are on there way to retirement and they are nervous. No offense, but I have heard of Randy Fromm, I have never heard of Rick prior to your post. Had I have known, I would have facilitated you too, although I intend to in the future. This is not a course for the average hobbyist by any stretch of the imagination.It is geared towards commercial techs, or those that have sufficeint resources and / or a stable of games, to warrant this type of expenditure, so as to save money in the long run on what can be ,sometimes, costly repairs.
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I'd have to say, My main issue with repairs is monitors, so i am all in for a Rick evening or weekend type thing. I would dig a Randy course, but getting a week off to do it would be murder.
I would think that there is a lot of interest in the Randy Fromm course (again for operators) but for us Schmucks, maybe a monitor course would be a killer idea!!
Thanks Gerald for the offer to everyone to host this thing... I will try to be available for January. If enough people are interested I would consider a re-run at my factory before. Show off the RFM, do more on set up and adjustmets and move onto LCDs
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