we tried the local community college thing and it took off with a bang, got factory support for equipment and refferal and after 1 semester all but two of the students decided that the work would be too hard and heavy and they would rather work in the auto world with air conditioned shops and rock and roll music. we hired the remaining two, one of which stuck with it and is a very good tech now. i find that work ethic is a large portion of why there are few replacements behind us. many of the youngsters that are intelligent enough to do the job dont have to, and the ones that have to arent intelligent enough to be good at it (generalization) of course that makes us more valuable as we get too old to do anything with the money but give it to our "kids". funny the way the world works!!