If anyone is interested, I gleened a little education from this link:

http://www.weldingmag.com/323/Issue/...se/11305/Issue

Thanks.
Andrew.




On 10/9/07 10:52 AM, in article ,
"Mike" wrote:


On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:03:32 -0500, "Pete C."
wrote:

- The US is lawsuit crazy and if arresters were truly essential, the
product liability insurance carriers for Victor, etc. would insist that
such arresters were included as standard equipment

The use of arresters was considered good practice over 25 years ago in
the UK. It's nothing to do with product liability, it's just plain
common sense.