Cheap welding for punks

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Cheap welding for punks
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From the all-important step #2 of this Instructable: “Don’t Poison Gas Attack Yourself, etc.”

Useful for anyone who wants to make welds without spending much:

Welding is usually the easiest and quickest way to build something.
You just put the parts next to each other and weld them.
You don’t have to drill bolt holes and go to the hardware store for bolts.
Metal doesn’t split like wood. It doesn’t have grain and knots that make every piece different.
You can get all kinds of scrap metal for free. Bed frames, parts of old cars, etc etc.
And you can make your own welder for free or close to it.

Don’t have access to a welder? LIAR!! All it takes is some junk car batteries and a welding rod.
Or some dead microwave ovens to butcher for the transformers.
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