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newshound wrote:
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.

Quite a difference between doing structural repairs just to get through an
MOT and restoring an old car properly.

But then MIG (or rather affordable ones) didn't exist in the old days.

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