Aargh...It never ends..

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.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B