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[scaffers]

Welding is like most things, gets easier the more you do.

Once you get to grips with it you won stop it

I learnt over 25yrs ago, simply because £35 for a 2nd hand mig was about 10% of what the garage wanted at te time.

So once I'd blown thru the panel I needed to sort, set fire to the under seal, made myself blind on numerous occasions, burnt more skin than the wickerman, I'd got the bug.................. And then the fun began.

Numerous minis, range rover, reliant scimitar GTC, triumph Vittesse, landies, sunbeam alpine plus numerous accident repairs for people saw the skills get better and better.


Do the hard work now, and spend the rest of your life enjoying the benefits of it,


Scaff

[gazza01]

I had never welded before either. Just go get yourself a MIG and get on with it. Do simple bits first. If you do the whole thing in blobs it won't matter once you grind it down. It will be a useful thing to have under your belt especially as a mini owner. It's fairly simple to do if you have a practice first. Don't be afraid, just do it! Good luck.

I had new wings A panels, door skins, door sills, rear valance and closing plates, plus a few holes here and there to do. 

It may not be the neatest in the world but it got me through the MOT and now its ground flat and painted it looks fine.

Edited by gazza01, 19 June 2013 - 08:50 PM.

[tractor]

Welding is like most things, gets easier the more you do.
Once you get to grips with it you won stop it
I learnt over 25yrs ago, simply because £35 for a 2nd hand mig was about 10% of what the garage wanted at te time.
So once I'd blown thru the panel I needed to sort, set fire to the under seal, made myself blind on numerous occasions, burnt more skin than the wickerman, I'd got the bug.................. And then the fun began.
Numerous minis, range rover, reliant scimitar GTC, triumph Vittesse, landies, sunbeam alpine plus numerous accident repairs for people saw the skills get better and better.
Do the hard work now, and spend the rest of your life enjoying the benefits of it,
Scaff

Very true

I learnt to weld when I left school and it paid for quite a few nights out during college and uni, there was no shortage of skint students with crappy cars that needed patching up cheaply for the mot, cash in hand that sort of thing

Trac

Edited by tractor, 19 June 2013 - 10:31 PM.

[sonikk4]

I started out welding as i could not afford to keep paying somebody to weld my Cortina. Within two weeks i was welding for other peeps and have not looked back since. Practise makes perfect and that is what its about.

 

Buy a reasonable welder to start with for example a Clarke 135TE, do not go gasless and before you know it you will have recouped your costs.