<VV> Re: learning to weld

[AKG]

If you are burning through with a mig - maybe it's the welding skills and
not the welder...

> From: Larry Forman <Larry at forman.net>
> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:33:58 -0800
> To: Harry Yarnell <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>, <virtualvairs at corvair.org>, "Dave
> Morris \"BigD\"" <BigD at DaveMorris.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Re: learning to weld
> 
> 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
> 
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