thanks to the welder of jimby, the argon of halfords and the gloves of machinemart (in a rather attractive shade of turquoise (sp?)) and lots of tea and help from louie we got the welding going on the baja exhaust, all that needs doing (kinda) is to swipe the flanges off the end of the front left and back right (ie number 4 and number 1 exhaust ports) and turn them though 90 degres or so and weld them back on…

the last time i welded anything was years and years ago (and even then i wasn’t any good) but after cleaning up some old exhaust and running a few practice beads up and down all looks good, good flow, good penetration and a nicely shaped continuous bead, no pits, no mess… not bad i think to myself…

i attack the first flange and spot it in place and then start seaming… then run out of wire.. off to halfords (doh! the bontempi of tool suppliers…) and another roll of wire (and soome more cutting disks while i’m at it…) and it all starts going a bit pete…

anyhow we knock that on the head and louie starts doing his first ever welding… the grin on his face when he realised what he could now make!

we welded happily into the twilight with the arc making crazy shadow up the trunks of the trees…
…quite magical 😉