Re: Outdoor Welding

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...
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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.

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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.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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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.
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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.
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 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 .
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