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"Ignoramus16418" wrote in
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On 2014-12-02, Jon Elson wrote:
Yup, one of the guys in our shop is so good, he can make a hole
drilled in
the wrong place literally disappear! This is in aluminum, of
course.



I can do that with 6013 electrode, I once capped, by welding, a 1/2"
pipe
nipple.

i


I was shown how and then practiced filling in quarter-sized holes in
sheet metal with MIG. I can't do it well enough to fill rust holes in
cars, though. It's a lot easier horizontal, over a backing plate or
firebrick.
-jsw