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   Message 214,496 of 215,319   
   Jim Wilkins to Bob La Londe   
   Re: Outdoor Welding   
   25 Jun 25 18:50:58   
   
   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:103hbhd$2tfs6$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 6/25/2025 10:19 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > To a certain extent that is self deprecation, and to some extent I know   
   > what a "pretty" weld should look like.  I really don't think 48 inches of   
   > weld will fail catastrophically all at once without warning causing both   
   > jacks to suddenly fall off under load.   
      
      
   I am concerned my shade tree engineering may have been wrong and I may   
   have to cut them off and reweld them higher.  LOL.  We shall see.  That   
   could also just be my inner pessimist.   
      
   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
   ---------------------------------   
      
   That's the sort of rework that convinced me to not do things I couldn't   
   undo. To remind myself to at least think twice I put a pencil eraser on the   
   end of my Xacto knife.   
      
   I've noticed very skilled machinists avoiding old fashioned freehand metal   
   working like the plague, so I wrote that how-to in case you hesitate to try   
   it. They left me those jobs, such as laying out and drilling hole patterns   
   on sand castings.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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