Thread: Rust.....we meet again....

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I have a little lincoln weld pac and have done quite a bit of sheetmetal welding with it with nothing going wrong with it. Probably 15 years since I bought it now Something are just worth paying a little more for. I bought all the regulators to convert it to gas, but still have never went and bought the tanks and gas to do that yet. Using the nice big miller at work reminds me how much nicer gas is and how much cleaner weld. I would like to get a bigger welder, but for normal sheetmetal work the little lincoln around $300 does a good job. Really dying to buy myself some victor torches also. Ohh an iwata spray gun. So many tools I want, so little time and money. Santa, are you listening?. Some good brands of tools I have, milwaukee, viking, ect will last a lifetime if taken care of, even used regularily. The cheap tools just may not stand up to much continous use without breaking. Some guys that did some contract work for a place I use to work at bought all there grinders from harbor freight. They were getting new ones every week, as they burnt up quick doing production work. I do love going to harbor freight for stuff like cutoff disks at like 10 for a few bucks, and tools I will probably only be needing once or use very little. I think its a little tacky for floors and wouldn't be the way the factory did it, but think some people put them in with panel adhesive on a frame car. It should be okay if its not a big structural part of the car. But you don't have much worry about burning off corrosion protection somewhere. Manufacturers are using adhesives in more in more applications these days. But I still wouldn't go replaceing a structural part of a car with adhesive, such as floors in a unibody car. But the adhesive is $30 a tube and the guns to apply are a little pricey if you can't get a loaner. Here is a link I found in a search where they use panel adhesive.
http://www.theautoist.com/fusor.htm
P.S. Is it okay if I rate your photos as offensive? Rust is pretty offensive to look at and makes me think of work. Do see enough of it around here though.