I'm no expert either, but I did have a friend who was a proper welder show me what to do. Especially with welder set up and that helped me a lot. I started with flux-core mig wire and did OK. I then got an argon/CO2 tank and used regular solid wire and found that so much easier to control. I don't weld much now and without practice I've definitely lost 'it' a bit. When I was welding most days building a Lotus 7 chassis I ended up making some really pretty welds using a cheap mig.

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