On 19/11/2018 11:01, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
MIG is no doubt the most user-friendly welding method of the lot. Very
little skill required and most of that to do with just getting the
set-up right.

I always found acetylene was..but then I was trained on that - not on
arc of any sort.

I doubt then you've ever done any car body repairs. All too easy to warp
panels with acetylene. Very difficult to do that with MIG - unless a total
idiot.

Back in the old days when young research officers had no money, one of
our lab techs used to get all our cheap rusty cars through the MOT in
the evenings, and he only used gas. Never saw him having a problem with
warping. But we only employed techs with amazing skills. Looking back,
I'm not sure how our HR and management did the recruitment so well, I
guess they researched the references and had good contacts.