Mum won't let me have an arc welder

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I am a 15 year old boy living in rural Devon UK and wish to have a arc welder. But my Mum says it is too dangerous if I have been properly trained. I have already done some arc welding with a neighbor so has my Dad. I have also looked for a course for arc welding but there all aimed at people who wish to become professionals and too expensive.
How can I persuade my Mum and Dad to allow me to buy an arc welder?

Does your dad want an arc welder? If so, what would your mum say to him?
(And if not, why doesn't he want one?)

hagarthorne my mum finds you pesterpower very funny

TequilaMockingbirdy i don't this is my first time using this and i don't really intended to use it again

If the welding doesn't work out how about dancing?

Off point, but ArcWeldingInTheCobBarn would be a great username.

Suggest to your mum, that when you can afford the welding equipment, including all safety gear, plus you've found a proper training course & earned the money yourself, to pay for it, if your mum will reconsider then.

My dad had an arc welder. You can go blind if you don't use the helmet properly. Also, you need protective clothing, which he didn't wear, he got burned on one arm with splashes of molten metal, & ended up in hospital with an infection. The safety course is important, they are expensive for a reason.

I think that your mum needs to join mn.

I already do so dancing on Just dance on xbox

Yes! Dancing.

'Oh what a feeling, I'm arc welding on the ceiling' - hmm not quite the same ring to it eh OP?!

What a feeling!

Your mum probably fears you trying to twerk whilst welding. Arc twerking = recipe for disaster.

I know that you are using your money to pay for this, but you would be better saving more and buying a decent mig welder.

A decent welding set up is worth the wait and you can get gasless welding wire.

But having said that you do need some sort of training to use it and night classes are the way to go.

But MIG is almost double the price.

Thank you! And hi to the aspiring arc welder's Mum.
I think cookery would be a nice way into arc welding for you.

I do cook and last summer holiday I cooked everyday while my parents worked on the land.

My dad doesn't want one because he is too busy.

mig is much more versatile, more variation in the settings and when you get good you will be able to weld aluminium as well as steel.

There is a downside in having to buy tips but again having arrange of tips and wire allows you much more freedom in what you can weld and weld well.

Then you are a very good son and deserve your arc welder (in due course). You also have a nice archaic turn of phrase and I think you could go far in the literary columnist line (approach your local paper with an offer of 250 words per week on Until I Get My Arc Welder (not a joke)(avoid excess brackets)(do as I say, not as I do)). The cob barn and Rural Devon and the parents working the land- keep it all in. And please keep up the mumsnet connection because you have cheered up today immensely.

Ok, but my Mum would still want me to do a course.

Thanks, hagarthorne

So do the course.

Your mum can be right.

She is.

Well the course kind of costs £375

Many years ago, my older brother once set light to my car with an arc welder and he is fully trained.

I think your mum is right not to let you have one untrained.

Oh yes, my dad also set fire to the car door whilst welding. I see a pattern. That £375 course would be money well spent, if your parents allow you to have the thing in the first place.