In article , Jim K
wrote:
newshound Wrote in message:
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.

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How much welded body repairs was he welding with a gas axe though?

Presumably Benson & hedges packets & isopon did for the bits "above the
waterline"?

Back in the 1960s I was introduced to a car repairer: he was "George, the
only person I know who can weld two pieces of rust together."

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from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle