Thanks all. In retrospect, the danger should have been obvious, but when 1) a guy has a new welder, 2) You're the type that fixes absolutely everything, it's not always the first step to stop and think, "Should I really be doing this, even if I can?" Appreciate the knock on the head "...

Hey all, I'm a somewhat newby welder working on a crack on my small air compressor. Where a support was welded to one of the air tanks a crack formed and allowed air to leak. I thought it would be a simple matter of running a bead over the crack, but no matter how many times I weld it, new cracks fo...