[TheForge] power and accidents

Wed Jan 16 13:35:33 EST 2013

Exactly.

I am thinking about selling my 25 pound little giant. It is in working
condition with an electric motor driving a belt.  Guess I should take some
photos and get opinions on what it is worth.  More on that below:

At a garage sale last summer, I bought a cute little 110 volt wire feed
welder with an extra, full 2 pound role of flux wire inside it.  I had
stopped on a whim.  I had seen a disk blade mounted pedistal / bench
grinder as I drove by.. then spotted  the welder and bought both for $50. 
The little welder turned out to be a Clark, in like new condition. Back on
the farm, my old 230 volt AC / DC  stick welder gets most service,  and I
also have a 15 year old 170 amp MIG welder.
Both are in what has become my son's shop on the farm,  but having the
little wire welder in town has saved me more than its cost, just in
gasoline going back and forth to the farm.  I've also moved one of my gas
forges, an anvil, vise (s) into my little barn shop in town.  I took a
smith friend out to look at potentially buying my 25 pound little giant on
just Monday night, and found my son had moved it to "God knows where",
since my prior trip to the farm ... <grins>  Communication breaks down
quickly.

Dann

Dann

> In a democratic system, if we don't have a very wide spread of conflicting
> opinions,
> we are doing something very wrong!
> Why, we even allow discussion of arc welders here!
>
> On Jan 16, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Bruce . wrote:
>
> I've got mixed emotions about such things.  Extremists serve one
> purpose -- the bring an issue out into the open.
>
> Draft-card burners were extremists in their day -- during the Viet Nam
> war -- and had a lot to do with getting the anti-war movement in the
> news.  Back then it was implicit that one "supported the war" and it
> was a real slap in the face to the authorities to find out otherwise.
> General Hershey openly chose to punish protesters by drafting them --
> being sent to Viet Nam being the punishment for free speech.  Of
> course, nowadays, it's hard to find anyone who "ever" believed in the
> Viet Nam war...
>
> Bra burners, though much criticized, did much the same for the issue
> of women's rights.  I'm always amazed that we STILL haven't passed the
> ERA.  Meanwhile, I watch all the right-wing women in politics who
> somehow don't realize that they wouldn't even BE in politics if it
> weren't for women's rights advocates (on the "left") who went before.
>
> PETA is a very short-sighted organization.  "Ethical treatment" of
> animals I support.  Much of what has been done to lab animals is
> indefensible.  (Did you know that known corrosives are placed in the
> eyes of rabbits to test the?  If the effect were unknown such an
> experiment might be called science, but when the effect is know
> aforehand, it can only be called torture.)  However, PETA's insistence
> that we all should be vegans is a bit much.  Vegetarians have the odd
> concept that all those lovely sheep and cows and pigs and chickens
> will go into retirement when we stop eating them.  In fact, they'll go
> extinct!
>
> So, again, Greenpeace is a few loud people who call attention to such
> things as Japanese "research" on whales.  I guess the Japanese are
> researching which whales taste best!  I don't have much sympathy for
> whalers and wouldn't be real upset if Greenpeace sent THEM down the
> Marianas trench.
>
> Whales, fisheries, fracking -- we're destroying this planet and its
> ecosystems.  We're doing the equivalent of slash and burn on a global
> scale, but since it's major corporations involved in the doing, rather
> than ignorant Brazilian farmers, there's no stopping it.  Short
> sighted people with no ability to see past this quarter's bottom line
> are in charge and they're sending the planet straight to hell.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/13/2013 1:04 PM, Andy Gladish wrote:
>>>
>>> It's not just the Greenpeace crowd that's making things rocky for
>>> nuclear
>>> power-
>>
>>
>> I understand the basic premise from which they operate, but they are
>> such
>> assholes about everything.  Ramming commercial vessels?  I'd LOVE to see
>> one
>> of those trawlers arm up with recoilless rifles and put one of those
>> Greenpeace vessels in the Marianas Trench.  No, I do not approve of
>> whaling
>> and long line trawling, but I am not sure that some of Greenpeace's
>> tactics
>> are not every bit as egregious.
>>
>> Tunnel vision can be a very bad thing.
>>
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> Bruce
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