and £18- quid for a normal size bottle at the car diy shop in new milton a reggie is about the same its a few quid cheaper on the net
that why i asked if gasless wire is any good
its only a tenner on the net

Normal you mean micky mouse..? Re read my last sentence!!

Those small bottles are pointless

Ayjay, to summarise gasless will do the job, it won't be pretty. A bottle of gas will improve things, but as someone that doesn't do much welding it still won't be pretty.

Only you can work out the cost benefit to yourself of a £10 roll of gasless Vs a disposable bottle and some 0.6 wire as we don't now what gear you have. If you are only doing the hinge and you don't have wire gas or a regulator then gassless. Go on the assumption that once you start poking there is going to be a lot more welding . If you intend to do more then gear up for gas I used to do a pair of sills seat box and toe board to a bottle of co2 from Machine Mart

Thats me then I did all the welding on my Dyane which was about 6 months of every spare minute i had with my old Snap on welder and Halfords bottles,to be fair most lasted well as long as you unscrewed the regulator when you have finished and it still worked out cheaper than renting a BOC bottle.The biggest problem with the disposable bottles is what to do with the empty ones as nobody wants them.

Tryed that but our bin men are fussy buggers! rang the council and they said they shouldn't be put in the rubbish or the recycle bins I will take them to work and dump them some time.

Put them in next doors bin.

Now that is a good idea

Wrap them in a carrier bag with other rubbish. By the time they get to the tip on-one will know which bin they came from (unless you've left a receipt or something else with your name on in the bag with them)

Its the the pressure vessel thing, take the brass valve off with a 14mm spanner then its just a lump of steel