Noob welder, looking for info. Good questions

[turbotalon1g]

Thanks guys. Sadly my broseph is working hard as a professional, I think minimally at 40hrs/week, those ballin' ass manifolds don't make themselves.

I'd love to sit at his work, but I don't know if his boss would like that although I'm good at keeping people on task and working hard.

While at Toll (5 mins) from my place, i spotted some nice ass winter welding gloves for $5. I have a manual darkening helmet right now, I haven't tried any good auto darkening helmets, i tried a cheap one and the delay was terrible and would mess me up.

Right now I have some scrap metal and I might take this freakishly warm week to go and collect some scrap from a welding place I used to deliver from and get metal from.

I'll keep this thread updated with my progress, I don't get out too much usually during winter and in my current state winter will be different.