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|    Snag to Bob La Londe    |
|    Re: Outdoor Welding    |
|    25 Jun 25 19:26:21    |
      From: Snag_one@msn.com              On 6/25/2025 6:56 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:       > 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       >               You been there quite a while now Bob ... don't let it go to your head .       --       Snag       We live in a time where intelligent people       are being silenced so that       stupid people won't be offended.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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