This is the key. Practice. Don't expect to do perfect welding right
from the get go. You have to learn the right speed at which to
proceed, and that only comes from practice.

My practice consisted of doing seam welds on a 4 foot long piece of
steel. The first few were pretty horrible, but by the end I was
gettting pretty decent.

I need to get some aluminum scrap now so I can practice aluminum
welding.

One of these days I'll strip out the interior and tackle some of the
more egregious rust holes on one of my Vanagons.

On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:04 PM, craig cowan wrote:

> With no previous welding experience, i got some basic
> lessons, grabbed some scrap steel, and was pretty happy with not
> making to
> much of a mess after a few days of practice.