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On 6/25/2025 6:56 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 6/25/2025 3:50 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
>> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:103hbhd$2tfs6$1@dont-email.me...
>>
>> On 6/25/2025 10:19 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> To a certain extent that is self deprecation, and to some extent I 
>>> know what a "pretty" weld should look like.  I really don't think 48 
>>> inches of weld will fail catastrophically all at once without warning 
>>> causing both jacks to suddenly fall off under load.
>>
>>
>> I am concerned my shade tree engineering may have been wrong and I may
>> have to cut them off and reweld them higher.  LOL.  We shall see.  That
>> could also just be my inner pessimist.
>>
>> Bob La Londe
>> CNC Molds N Stuff
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> That's the sort of rework that convinced me to not do things I 
>> couldn't undo. To remind myself to at least think twice I put a pencil 
>> eraser on the end of my Xacto knife.
>>
>> I've noticed very skilled machinists avoiding old fashioned freehand 
>> metal working like the plague, so I wrote that how-to in case you 
>> hesitate to try it. They left me those jobs, such as laying out and 
>> drilling hole patterns on sand castings.
>>
> 
> Snag, Richard, Clare, Leon, Everybody... did I just read that right? Did 
> he just call me a machinist?
> 
> I HAVE ARRIVED.
> 
> LOL
> 

   You been there quite a while now Bob ... don't let it go to your head .
-- 
Snag
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