^^ Good point.
My father is a pro welder on offshore platforms, I get a lot of his hand-me-downs
One of the best things I get from him are
quality welding gauntlets. These allow me to work in full contact with the surface, I usually drop my left elbow onto the surface and use my left fingertips to control the gun's nozzle. Dad keeps telling me to rig up a foot-pedal operation so that both hands can be used to control the nozzle. One day