New welder, from midwest USA

[AkaZero]

Been wanting to get into welding for a long time. Looked at a lot of the tutorials around the internet, but just got my first welder.

Picked up a hobart handler 140 with a half tank of co2 and regulator for $400 usd.

Got right to welding lines on some scrap exhaust, and the tutorials really do help.
Laying down some decent beads the first day I got it.

Wanted to try a project with stuff I had around, so I made a car seat office chair.

G20 seat + some random steel stuff welded to an old broken office chair base.

Not bad considering I started welding yesterday, and it's not even cleaned up.

 

[shenion]

Looks good.

Welcome from the Southeast

 

[stuvy]

welcome to the forum mate, your weld looks very neat for a first days attempt. Keep on practicing and youl be onto ally in no time

 

[chunkolini]

Good start, welcome aboard.
Looks as though you have got the ideas 'thing' sorted.

 

[AkaZero]

Welding is really fun, can't find enough stuff around the house that needs welded though.

Need a good chop saw and I can start fabbing some exhaust for a couple of my cars.

 

[FranV8]

Welcome and good work!

You could weld a mug to the stainless sink, I'm sure your wife would see the funny side!