[TheForge] switching torches

Thu Dec 5 12:22:00 2002

It sounds like you would get a good cost benefit from locking tool cabinets.

Ray Baker
Frontier Forge
Olympia, WA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "terry l. ridder" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] switching torches

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> 
> why do i go through cutting and welding tips so often? it is caused when
> one of my children or one of their friends uses the torch for something
> and either changes the tips and does not put the tips back in the
> welding draw of the tool box. i found my 000 propane welding tip in the
> driveway run over by a car. they do not bother to check the tips while
> in the shop they wait to try whatever is in the torch at the time they
> pick it up if that does not work they keep trying other tips.
> 
> today, i have a ride to aurora, il so i am going by harbor freight to
> pick up a new set of tin snips ( again since someone borrowed my old
> tin snips and never returned them. ) and stop by the large welding
> supply house and see what they have.
> 