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[bertie1.8vectra]

now ive got the disco i want to learn how to weld... any tips on where to go or look into learning about it???

[hotel21]

Sills, body/chassis mounts, bottom of the b pillars.  Pretty much anywhere thats steel as opposed to ally....         









Or try your local techy college.  Normaly good for night classes....   

[ozzycat]

if you lived near me i would teach you

[waspy]

if you lived near me i would teach you

Dito

[Andy B]

if you lived near me i would teach you

Dito

You don't know what kind of welding he wants to do! 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Here is a good site:

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/index.php

Tutorials across the top.

For vehicle welding, MIG and TIG are the most appropriate (but TIG is pricey) as ARC is not so good on thin sheet and Gas is expensive.

[cem_devecioglu]

Here is a good site:

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/index.php

Tutorials across the top.

For vehicle welding, MIG and TIG are the most appropriate (but TIG is pricey) as ARC is not so good on thin sheet and Gas is expensive.

thanks for the link

[Kevin Wood]

I would second the recommendation to go to your local college. For me, it was worth it just for the practice as I must have used many times the course fee in metal and consumables alone.

Then again, we had a good teacher. He just let us roam free in a workshop full of MMA,MIG,TIG,gas and spot welding kit and do what we wanted, offering advice when it went Pete Tong.

[jonnyboyws6]

I did a couple of City and Guilds as a night school years ago. Good as a basic introduction, but it was all about welding thick plate so not particularly relevant to cars. But, once you know the basics you can adapt your skills to suit. Also a good tutor should be able to help and advise outside the boundaries of the course, and I would say it is invaluable to have some one with experience there to help and advise rather than learning from a website/book. You should be able to get the hang of mig fairly quickly to patch stuff up to MOT standard, the art is in fabricating good repair panels if you want it to look nice.

[Kevin Wood]

Most colleges do courses in vehicle restoration too. Might be more appropriate than just the welding aspect perhaps?

[aaronjb]

Most colleges do courses in vehicle restoration too. Might be more appropriate than just the welding aspect perhaps?

Restore? A Disco? Nah, just bodge it together with bailing wire and gaffer tape

[henryd]

Most colleges do courses in vehicle restoration too. Might be more appropriate than just the welding aspect perhaps?

Restore? A Disco? Nah, just bodge it together with bailing wire and gaffer tape

Much like Landrover did then !,And I'm not taking the piss,I own one

[Marks DTM Calib]

I should add that I am totaly self taught, starting with MIG and then ARC and TIG.

Can weld most things, done alloys and steel with TIG, large steel stuff with ARC and most things with MIG (from thin plate Fiats through to 20mm platework).

Once you understand the basics you soon pick it up. 

I should add that I found it very hard to find courses that teach welding etc of an evening in this area

[omega3000]

Not a welder myself but i do have a brand new mig welder never used , is aluminium welding more difficult than say steel 

[hercules]

the on;y advice i would give is invest in a good set as the cheap ones if you have no experience are crap and are not starter friendly(bird shit lol).i always said with a good set i could teach anybody to weld in 10 mins....well the basics anyway