Larry Jaques writes:

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:16:58 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, "Carl
Byrns" quickly quoth:


"Joe Pfeiffer" wrote in message
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"Carl Byrns" writes:

Buy more nozzles- they wear out fairly quickly and will lead to poor
welds.

Not nozzles- I meant contact tips.

I asked about that in this newsgroup before buying the spool -- I live
at the north end of the Chihuahuan desert (Las Cruces, NM

Nice- my uncle lived in Albuquerque and I visited him there. Fell in love
with the high desert.
Would move there in an instant. May do so in the future.

I eyed the NM area and met with Lew before I moved to Oregon. It's
beautiful country with great people (Hi, Lew!), but ABQ was too big a
city for me, and NM too cold in the winter, too hot in the summer, and
too windy most of the time for my tastes.

Up there it does get chilly in winter -- down here, it gets too hotin
the summer and is too windy spring and fall, but the winter climate is
excellent.