I grew up with a hotroding father that had no use for a newfandangled wirefeeder! it was the stick or the tanks.
I have put so many dual exhausts on my rigs when I was a kid with the oxyace setup. If you can weld up a rusty exhaust with a torch, you got it made. I can lay oxy welds with no filler that look like tig welds.
My dad just got done welding a roof back on a 50 olds coupe witha torch. He hammerwelds all the sheet metal. He will weld it all, then heat up a section at a time red hot, then hammer & dolly it till its perfectly flat. He ends up with a super strong weld that wont crack later cuz the weld had been ground off weakening the joint. then he works the metal with a torch and shrinking hammer to smooth it all out.:beer:
Hes in his seventies go figure.
