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Yes, a 110 volt wire feed welder will work
just fine. The way to work it is to sort of treat your new metal as a
square or rectangle, picking a corner to start on. You tack it down solid
at that corner, then get the new metal flat and lined up correctly
with the old metal, and tack the next corner. Then you get it lined up and
flat again with the fourth corner and tack that down, then do the same with
the third corner. From here on out, there are 2 schools of thought .
One says to start at one end, and make tack welds every couple inches,
proceeding around the piece. The one I like is to make a tack in the
center of each of the sides, starting at the original 1-2, then go to the other
side of the material and do between 3 and 4. Then go to 2-3 and tack
between them, then to 4-1 and tack between that. Then you go sort of like
torqueing a head, where you start at the center, and go one way then the
other and cross side to side welding an inch at a time. What this does is
reduce distortion from heat build up.
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