[TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships OT

[Kevin Donahoe]

Fussy? naw, I always said I'm quite a catch if you're willing to lower your
standards (is that the difference between a blacksmith and machinist? 1/8"
vs 0.0001" :)

Ralph, I just thought Red-Green was a reference to your beautiful eyes!

Kevin

 -----Original Message-----
 From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
 [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Ralph Sproul
 Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:47 AM
 To: Sponsored by ABANA
 Subject: Re: [TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships


 Wow, them Ohio gals aint' to fussy.   :-)    But then again I dont' have
 much to say as my gal keeps muttering "if you can't find em handsome, find
 em handy".    I've always figured one out of two ain't bad anyway.

 Ralph

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Kevin Donahoe" <flyinpig at go-concepts.com>
 To: <artgawk at thegrid.net>; "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
 Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:34 PM
 Subject: RE: [TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships


 >
 > Shortly after shoeing school, I had a job working on the
 shipping/receiving
 > dock at a company that made metering stations for the Alaska
 Pipeline.  As
 > the largess of jobs would come back, I ended up with about 600 lbs of
 > welding rod (that was to go in the dumpster after not being used on a
 gov't
 > contract), gave most of it away when I moved back to the midwest, but
 still
 > have a mess of 3/32-6010, 5/32-7018, and some odd ball stainless rods.
 Boy,
 > I love free shyte!
 >
 > Kevin D
 >
 > (early date with my wife was dumpster diving behind nice restaurants for
 > wine bottles for home made wine, and she married me anyway!)
 >
 >  -----Original Message-----
 >  From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
 >  [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Peter Fels And
 >  Phoebe Palmer
 >  Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:29 PM
 >  To: Sponsored by ABANA
 >  Subject: Re: [TheForge] Welding Liberty Ships
 >
 >
 >  When they were building Diablo Cyn Nuke plant, the engineering specs
 >  quantified the number of pounds and type of rod for each stage of
 >  construction. I talked to a young guy who had just proudly graduated
 >  from the Lincon welding school with a pretty big rating. He was one of
 >  the last welding hires and spent months on end opening cans of expensive
 >    lo hydrogen rod, bending the rods till the flux broke off and tossing
 >  the result into a pit that a dozer covered over  at the end of every
 >  day. He was a tad disillusioned. Fortunately, i live upwind...mostly.
 >  Pete F
 >
 >  Andrew Vida wrote:
 >
 >  > Yeah, the story kind of reeks of urban legend.  I cannot imagine even
 in
 >  > those times that a shipyard would be so foolish as to pay based upon
 >  > number of rods consumed.
 >  >
 >  > JOHN CHOBRDA wrote:
 >  >
 >  >>     My late Aunt worked building ships during the war and I never
 heard
 >  >> that story, she said they got paid by the hour and how fast
 they could
 >  >> produce. I thought that when the ships that did break apart, it
 happened
 >  >> during the winter months in the North Atlantic and they sank, hard to
 >  >> inspect.
 >  >>
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