I think I saw on here somewhere a 17 air cooled hose repair gizmo, anyone?

noob as well here no training whatsoever beyond jody's videos

no formal training at all, wanted to learn to weld for my own hobby interests so 20 years ago I bought a 110 V flux core machine within a month I was hooked and bought a lincoln powermig 300. Long story I know, anyhow that machine mostly sat in storage until I recently moved from So. Cal to AZ. and ...