[TheForge] Beware the quiet welder

[Larry Brown]

Between the heat and the humidity down there I would make sure the fan is 
running to keep the unit from being overheated, there fore turning it into 
garbage. What was that vine down there kudzu or something? Small animals 
who like warmth will sometimes try to get into the machines a friend found 
a semi-cooked baby snake in his once

Haven't been in Tallahassee since the mid 80s when my grandmother passed 
away, still nice or has there been a lot of changes?

L Brown



At 07:53 PM 8/25/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>Today I noticed that my Lincoln buzzbox while working nicely was running 
>very quietly.  Now I don't exactly have a shop and it lives under a tent 
>by my garage here in soggy Tallahassee where I'm constantly fighting one 
>fast growing vine in particular that tries to take over my azaleas and now 
>my "shop".  Took the back off and at first I thought it was a tiny wire 
>that had gotten in the fan, but it was a thin tendril of white vine that 
>had stopped the little fan from running.   After I removed the little 
>#$%&^%$#@ and put the back on it ran noisily as before and blew air out 
>the back.  So, watch out for your welder running too smoothly.
>
>Jeff Valentine