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   Message 214,498 of 215,319   
   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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