Ive got the opportunity to pick up for nearly nothing or trade..a box
which I believe is a micro-tig unit. The owner called me and asked me
if I wanted it and gave me the info on the front panel

Union Carbide Linde Plasma Needle Arc Welder

I saw the unit a couple weeks ago for a few seconds, and it indeed
does have a tig torch tip with tungstun needle and coolant lines and
all that stuff. Its about the size of a bread box or a large old
style Kenwood stereo, typical Linde yellow face, lots of dials and
knobs and whatnot. I believe its 110v. There is an multipin jack for a
"remote" but there is no peddle.

I was a bit put off because there are two gas input lines in the back.
One for argon, and one in and out for a gas I dont remember..CO2?
Must be the coolant line that goes out to the torch?

it is NOT this one:
http://www.mrtool.net/machine.aspx?listing=M1079 though its somewhat
similar.

Is this something I want to futz with? Is it suitible for doing small
gun parts and such? The last Tig I used was a Miller 2500..and this
is a much different kettle of fish.

Ill be looking at it again sometime later this week. Any information
as to what this critter is good for, would be appreciated.

Gunner

Some may decry the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton as a national trauma,
but not humorist P.J. O'Rourke, who thinks the proceedings are a win-win situation
-- and grand entertainment to boot.
Mr. O'Rourke, writing in the latest issue of the Weekly Standard, acknowledges that
"some earnest souls have gone so far as to aver that impeachment
has distracted President Clinton from ... raising taxes, destroying health care,
appointing 1960s bakeheads to high political office, soliciting felonious campaign contributions,
hanging friends out to dry for Arkansas real estate frauds, giving missile secrets to the Chinese,
taking credit for the benefits of a free market about which he knows little and cares less,
using U.S. military forces as fig leaves for domestic scandals and au pairs for the U.N.,
leading foreign policy back into the flea circus of Jimmy Carterism, having phone sex,
groping patronage seekers, and snapping the elastic on the underpants of psychologically
disturbed school-age White House interns entrusted with the task of delivering high-level government pizza."
Ouch. Tell us what you really think, P.J.
"No matter what, Bill," Mr.O'Rourke concludes,
"your girlfriend's ugly, your wife hates you, and your dog can't hunt."
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