21 Feb
2004
21 Feb
'04
4:26 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, der Mouse wrote:
Oh, if there's a real welder, there will surely be
helmets (or at least
goggles, though you have to be careful with goggles - sometimes they're
for oxyacetelyne welding, not sufficient for arc-welding). I'm talking
about times like out on the road in rural India when he's managed to
convert a spare diesel truck starter motor into a generator and is
using it as an emergency arc-welder. (No, that's not a specific
example, as far as I know. But it's the sort of thing he might well
have done at need - he had a real gift for things mechanical, and he
did tend to end up in places like Poland after the war, or rural India,
where you can't just pop down to the corner store and pick up an
arc-welding helmet.)
Your dad wouldn't happened to be named MacGyver by any chance?
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