He took it off me and said it's best for me to do that (in other words you're cr*p and will mess it up). What he did was a work of art!
. However, I have friend who is an expert welder and I said to him that I thought I had bought a cheap, rubbish machine. He came over one evening, had a look at the machine, twiddled the wire feed and set the current, and proceeded to produce a perfect weld first time. Once he had shown me what was possible, I learned how to do it, particularly how the wire feed setting is as important as the current setting. When I had finished welding my MGB GT (new sills, floors, boot floor etc.) and the local paint shop came to collect the shell for painting, the guys said "Did you do all that with that toy welder?" When I said yes, he offered me a job in his workshop! Maybe I should have taken him up on it.
A stick welder is useless for car body repairs Stewarty, you need to get a MIG which uses gas too, not a gas-less MIG.
Very true, you don't have to be that close to the welder to get 'flash' - Years ago I worked in a large factory and got it from someone who was arc welding well over 10 yards away from where I was working - very painful for a couple of days. You should also always use a mask as well - one of the guys was tac welding with an arc welder and instead of using his mask was just closing his eyes - he got some spatter that landed on his eyelid and burnt right through it, damaging his eye permanently - you can't afford to do that very often!
