Practice, I’m expecting to do lots of that, I just want to make sure I am practicing the right things.
Gas wise I have a hobbyweld rent free bottle just now to see how quickly I get through it. After speaking to one of the local BOC reps I have calculated if I get through this one in less than 4 months I am cheaper on contract.
After yesterday’s practice I have figured out there are a few more tools I need in the garage to make things a little more efficient.
Air die grinder for cleaning up the scrap metal I have.
More clamps/vice grips.
Proper welding table.
Yesterday was fun but I was thinking to try and help with control of the weld pool I could draw a couple of parallel lines on the sheet 5mm or so apart to give me something to try and keep within. I thought this may help with my speed of weld as I found I kinda got bogged down at times yesterday at which point the weld went wayward.
I have a friend up here who showed me some basics briefly yesterday while checking over my setup to see I hadn’t done anything stupid but he is expecting his first born in 6 weeks or so so hasn’t got much free time.