The other day I got a bit bored with butt welds and started to teach myself to weld on the up => vertical welding.

I reckon that'll come in handy.

Here's a picture of my first attempt



I didn't realise that instead of dragging the rod you are meant to push it up hill!

I must say it is messy - but it is good fun.

Here's a not so good picture of some results from today



You can see that I'm still struggling with this at the moment. But hey ho we'll get there in the end.

Has anyone got any tips?

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!