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Re: MIG Welders

To: "John T. Blair" <jblair@exis.net>
Subject: Re: MIG Welders
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:43:21 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, John T. Blair wrote:

> I'd like to also add that you might also want an oxy-acetylene tourch
> also.  When you really need heat for bending a piece of metal they
> come in very handy, plus the cutting tip for cutting things up.  
> However, unless you have a shop I'd suggest the small bottles so the
> unit is portable.  My dad has an oxy-acetylene rig with the tall
> (5 - 6 foot) bottles.  However, they are almost impossible to transport.
> I've been cutting up some cars with some of my friends and could have really
> used the tourch, but we couldn't move my dad's 
> rig. 
> 
> Another alternative to the cutting tourch is a Saws-all.  They are 
> great.  We've cut up about 4 cars with one of them.

Your dad's nobody's fool.  When I had the big tanks, they stayed right 
there in my garage.  My saws-all, however, disappeared the next day after 
I bought it, and was not returned until my daughter was finished with it.

Us fathers prefer big tools, chained to the floor.

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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