..I hope to learn some some welding skills in the near future and follow suit.
My first advice is, no matter how cheap it is to get, don't get a flux core HF welder. Spend the money to get a good MIG if you are planning on doing much welding.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
