For those of you who don't know, Randy Fromm is one of the worlds leading arcade repair guys, since before the 1980's. Here is a link to his site:

http://randyfromm.com/amusements/arcadeschool/


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

Thanks
Gerald

Sounds like a really awesome opportunity.

And the price is very good; I'm sure you'll sell-out in no time...

... but my finances just can't allow that right now....  sigh...


Steph

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.

Just something to consider,

Rob

Good point

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.

I would love to do this but the only time I can get that much time off is in the summer time.  Hopefully this works and you can do another.

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.

UPDATE****

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"

I'd be in if I can come up with the cash within a month..  

What would the hours be?  (ie. would I have to take a week of work?)

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...

Thanks,
Terry.

Does that mean you are in Terry!!