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Old 06-23-2014, 01:48 PM
David Gardiner David Gardiner is offline
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This is just plain silly......

Most of us learn without the aid of hands on instruction. We need to learn from our mistakes, by travelling too fast and getting insufficient penetration, and by travelling too slowly and blowing holes (amongst other errors). Eventually, hopefully, we can live between those two extremes.

Personally, I still blow the occasional hole in steel, let alone aluminum!

I think David, you're living in Fairy land if you think the average guy doesn't need to know how to fix his screw ups, and can just learn to "weld properly in the first place"



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I have spent more than an hour trying to scan a section of a book listing proper settings for gas welding pressures as set out by BOC but I could not get it clear enough to upload and post. I thought it might help people. I guess I have wasted my time seeing as I am living in "Fairy Land".

David


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Good grief....... Grow up.
I used your phrase and I should grow up?

David
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