Originally Posted by
HandsomeRyan
This is why I keep advocating that all DIYer's should buy themselves a welder! I have a lot of tools but hands down my welder is my favorite. Mine is nothing fancy- a 115V flux-core wire feed welder. It cost about $400 at Northern Tool. I also have an auto-darkening mask, a couple angle grinders, and a metal cutting chop saw. [oh how I lust for a metal cutting bandsaw as well]
Not that there is anything wrong with nut-n-bolt construction but welding is just so much more versitile and there are a lot of great application for utility cycling improvements.
Allow me to comment on your post.......
You are oh so correct about welding as a superior method of joining parts together. Welding
has strength that all other methods of fastening can never match.
That said, one needs a place to weld which is the down fall for most. I would like to own a
welder and could easily afford one,BUT I could never recover the cost of ownership wiith my
very low usage of said welder. In other words, a welder for me is a.....waste of money.
I resolve my needs with savvy shopping and blackbelt pricing and I seldom shop new.
YMMV