No I don't agree with you there, if you read my post you would have seen that I don't recommend it, I said that I did it for myself and I am quite happy with the results. I have seen a lot of good welders on this forum and no doubt most of them will not use that gas as I did, as there are far are more appropriate gasses to use, I wouldn't do it again myself as I would get the right gas mix next time, and those good welders you referred to are quite capable of making their own minds as to what is or isn't a good weld as I am. You have your opinion and I have mine
As for the rest of the beginner welders they have to make up their own minds on whether or not to do something. It's a bit like someone asking on this forum about cutting open an empty propane bottle, if you don't know how to do it then you shouldn't untill you know how to do it safely. You can't catergorically say you can't or shouldn't. I am not trying to be argumentative or anything, I just answered the OP's question because I have done it with satisfactory results, you may disagree and that is your 2 cents and what I wrote was mine, let's leave it at that.
As for the rest of the beginner welders they have to make up their own minds on whether or not to do something. It's a bit like someone asking on this forum about cutting open an empty propane bottle, if you don't know how to do it then you shouldn't untill you know how to do it safely. You can't catergorically say you can't or shouldn't. I am not trying to be argumentative or anything, I just answered the OP's question because I have done it with satisfactory results, you may disagree and that is your 2 cents and what I wrote was mine, let's leave it at that.