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|    Bob La Londe to Jim Wilkins    |
|    Re: Outdoor Welding    |
|    25 Jun 25 16:56:32    |
      From: none@none.com99              On 6/25/2025 3:50 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:       > "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.       >              Snag, Richard, Clare, Leon, Everybody... did I just read that right?       Did he just call me a machinist?              I HAVE ARRIVED.              LOL                                   --       Bob La Londe       CNC Molds N Stuff              --       This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software.       www.avg.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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