Nick, I did just that! Just played played with the amperage output__starting at 1.0 amp per .001" thickness, but needed more heat than that provided. I do believe and agree with you, in that I should just stick to the basics. Instead of watching Russian dash-cam fails, I'm going to start search...

... thought I was the third, but looks like I get silver instead of bronze! I saw a link to How to Weld Aluminum Pt 1 today, and that led me to weldmonger.com and then to here. Good video, by the way; now if I could only remember what I was looking for when I started watching the YouTube video__it s...