welding is a mystical art form,

I remember a young lad keen and pennyless who had an old wreck of a mini
that should really have been scrapped. but. it was the only car he could
afford, unfortunately, it needed inner and outer sills doorsteps A posts
inner wings boot floor, rear valance subframe mounts and great chunks of the
footwells. It would have been a challenge for an experienced vehicle
restorer to put back together, and probably quicker and cheaper to buy a new
shell, But the young lad was so pig headed and determined to make the old
wreck work that he spent hours with a borrowed welder blowing holes in what
was left of the rust, setting fire to insulation, nearly poisioning himself
by trying to weld to old fibreglass repairs and underseal... It took the lad
weeks of weekends and late nights to get it ready to pass an MOT test.

But
I did learn how to weld.

Jim