[Gert-Jan]

Thanks for your reply and welcome David.

The slapper made of a car leaf spring, a MG roadster to be more precise.

I know you avoid MIG welding when possible of sensible and you're keen on gas welding for good reasons. The thing is, I already bought a MIG welder some time ago and I didn't discover it downsides at the time.

If you totally new to this, like I am, you ask around, see some stuff on Discovery, read some books about restoring. Guess what, every resource mention MIG welding as the way to go. (and then talk about filler of course) Later I discovered metalmeet.com and later this forum came up. I don't hear or read stuff like slappers (flippers), shrinking discs outside metalmeet and allmatalshaping so much! I discovered your DVD through this forum also.

Finishing MIG welding IS a lot of work and grinding weld is a precise job, I see why you don't prefer it. I'm just having a go and see what I can do. I don't want to spend a lot of money when I just barely know how to hold a MIG welder. I was raised to making do with what you have. If I'm getting better at all this I will think about upgrading to gas or tig weld unit.