[Ironstrike]

Your over thinking this !! I used to do the same as you and over analyse everything and the result is you get less done. Just get on with it. If you can’t get in with a grinder, use a file. Or a Dremel or something. You have apparently decided to stick weld it. Obviously the cleaner the surface the better the weld, but stick welding can cope with some light rust.

Yeah, I tend to do that But at least I have a plan now, I got all the tools and equipment I will need together today and put them in a crate ready to do it tomorrow, which if I can believe the weather forecast is the only day in the next week where it wont be raining.

 

[meego]

Yeah, I tend to do that But at least I have a plan now, I got all the tools and equipment I will need together today and put them in a crate ready to do it tomorrow, which if I can believe the weather forecast is the only day in the next week where it wont be raining.

I hope your gloves don’t get wet if it’s raining. I’ve done quit a bit of stick welding in the rain and it gets interesting when you get wet

 

[Ironstrike]

One on at least, it did take all day but that included driving to Tool station to buy a new grinder and using a welding mask about as useful as a pair of Poundland sunglasses.