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Re: Welding Spit body panels

To: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Subject: Re: Welding Spit body panels
From: Carter Shore <clshore@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:48:50 -0700 (PDT)
Given the skill and equipment, welding is the way to
go. 
It's not fear, rather respect for the skill and
training that good welding requires.

Carter

--- Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca> wrote:
> 
> Carter Shore wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, good points, but but the bottom line is
> strength
> > and ease of application vs welding.
> 
>   ...and to which I reply that *NOTHING* is easier,
> faster,
> and cheaper than welding. I can't imagine drilling
> all kinds
> of holes, fuddling with rivets and so on, and I even
> have
> an air powered rivet gun! Pick up the MIG welder and
> zing,
> move on to something else.
> 
>   This brings me back to my original point which I
> still
> stand by.
> 
>   The only people who seem to prefer other methods
> of
> panel joining are either financially unable to buy a
> welder
> or just generally afraid of the whole welding thing.
> 
> 
>   Make your own decision, but I highly suggest that
> if
> you really are trying to defend rivetting body
> panels
> together, you are simply trying VERY hard in your
> mind
> to convince yourself that you don't need to learn to
> weld, and letting the facts bend around your wishes.
> 
> -- 
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> "A dog like this you have to feed EVERY DAY." -
> Homer Simpson


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