I have some real small holes to weld up and saw that you can back the back-side of the hole with a copper plate temp while you weld. Eastwood sells this.

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=1181&itemType=PRODUCT

But would a piece of copper pipe, with a wood handle work just as well?

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