floor pans

I guess it all depends on budget. When I did my floors I had NO welder, I didn't have the extra cash to spend on a nicer one. Soooo, I bought the HF flux core wire welder. I used it to put the pans in my Dart, and will be using it again to do the pans in the car I just picked up for the wife.

Are there better welders out there? Absolutely. If you have the extra, spring for a better one that you can run gas with, it would be a good investment. If not the HF will do the job, however, it will be somewhat messy with all of the splatter from the flux core wire. I just do some clean up when I'm done.

As far as learning the welding process I would get some thin sheet metal and butt two pieces together and play away. You will soon learn what to do and not to do.

As always when welding thin sheet metal it is better to stitch weld it, do a small length and move to a cooler area and do it again, once it gets too hot you will get "blow through", repeat the process until you have them completely surrounded, lol.