Originally Posted by
meech151
Just curious as to why it is so hard to get welding gas in the UK? There seems to be a fair number of frame builders from that area.
It's not actually that hard, but you can't buy the cylinders and get them refilled like you can in the US. You have to rent them, at a fairly high price, which is too expensive for a 17-year-old student like me. It's not hard to get welding gas in general over here, it's just hard for people in my particular situation.
By the way, on that carbon/steel frame you made, how far into the steel tubes did the carbon tubes actually extend?