On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 14:02:33 -0600, "DanG" wrote:

They had another machine outside that would
slowly turn a drill stem as a machine powder welded a new surface
on the drill collars (I'm sure there's a fancier name for the
process).


Hard banding

Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno