<VV> Re: learning to weld

[Larry Forman]

At 11:54 AM 3/20/2005 -0500, Harry Yarnell wrote:
>Um, the only thing an oxyacetylene torch is good for is cutting things up.
>
>Harry Yarnell
>perryman garage and orphanage
>perryman, MD
>hyarnell1 at earthlink.net

Hi Harry,
You are KIDDING, right?

I get a tremendous amount of use out of mine:
Tacking things together prior to arc welding,
brazing,
heating and bending parts,
torch welding thin metal pieces when the AC arc welder would burn through,
as a heat torch removing rusty nuts.
etc.
etc.
and ... oh, yes, cutting things up.

Richard Finch says that if you can only get ONE welding system, make it an 
Oxy-Acetylene torch.

I tend to agree.

-- Larry