I had a job in HS working maintenance in a food processing plant and got to play with stick and scratch tig a little, hooked to big blue. They had gas torches too but I was too intimidated to try those.
Fast forward a few years and I needed to fix my wife's driver seat, so grabbed a lincoln AC225. Did a fair amount with that, a trailer from a ford ranger (since sold), my garden tractor loader (on its 2nd tractor) and a whole mess of repairs and odds and ends. I got a hold of one of the everlast DC stick units and haven't looked back. Small, does everything I need (mostly 3/32 and 1/8 7014). I have a HF flux wirefeed but haven't really payed with it yet. Swapped the Lincoln to a friend in exchange for some work.
