Thats cool, what sort of work are you hoping to do and what sort are you retiring from? Not retiring yet, may work for a couple more years until I'm 70. Looking to do repair work on trailers, etc, and perhaps some farm equipment, and some light fabrication/welding. I'm even toying with the idea of ...

Thanks Gdarc21 & Jack for your posts. Very helpful info from you both! I’m in US, and even though I’m new to welding, only less than a year, and now in school, I’m retirement age, but not trying to get myself out of work, but get myself into the kind of work that I want to do!

Just trying to clarify terms, as I'm in welding school, and want to understand exactly the correct and common use of the term "root pass." My welding instructor tells me that we will be burning 7018 almost exclusively during the 5 weeks we're focused on stick, before we go on to MIG, then ...

Just saying hello, and intoducing myself as recommended by admin. I’m a fairly new welder with about 10 months under my belt as of this month, and I’m attending welding school presently.