@MissKathleen
My apologies to you, Kathleen! I had no intention of making you look gender biased! Do you forgive me?

@MissKathleen

Thank you for that!
In the morning, Ken and I are heading down to the San Diego area to purchase another TIG welder, a Miller HF Dialarc for only a hundred bucks! It needs a bit of repair work done on it, but nothing that I can't handle. This one looks to be in better shape than my current one, so I'm going to swap over the rheostat that controls the power level. And it has a couple of other parts that are bad on mine, so I will make one out of the two, and scrap the copper out of the other one. There has to be at least a hundred bucks worth of copper wiring in it. The hard part is going to be taking it all apart!

Randy

@MissKathleen
Back in 1994 or so, my GF Heather and I went to the antique equipment display in Vista. It was pretty cool, we saw some awesome machinery down there and a blacksmith demonstration. They had some restored tractors, one had wheels about 8 feet in diameter as I recall. It was painted green and black and was steam powered. There were plenty of hit and miss engines running, a couple were for sale. It was a day well spent!