[TheForge] Beware the quiet welder

[wmullett at bright.net]

>From the internet - blue morning glories are just blue morning glories ... but there are a lot of varieties...  Including ones you can buy.
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From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue Aug 26, 1:59 PM
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Beware the quiet welder

Yeah; morning glory.  Very pretty flower, maybe 2-inch-wide trumpet,
usually white, sometimes pinkish.  If dark blue, then it's sweet
potato (same genus).

Although a noxious weed, it does have redeeming qualities:  It has no
thorns, it has pretty flowers, and the seeds contain LSD.

Bruce
NJ

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:16 PM, terry l. ridder
<terrylr at blauedonau.com> wrote:
> hello;
>
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Jeff & Leslie 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.
>>
>
> sounds like wild morning glory vines. they are all over the fence rows in
> northern illinois.
> city folks come out here to dig them up and put
> them in their yard in the city. within a few years
> their neighbors will be cursing them for bringing
> that 'weed' into the neighborhood.
>
>>
>> Jeff Valentine
>
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> terry l. ridder ><>
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Bruce
NJ
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