OT but metal content: They do exist ...
Hi,
just wanted to share what happened today: Went out of OA gas, so I packed the bottles into the car and drove to my gas dealer. Closed! Nada! Nix! He gave up. :-( Now I have private bottles, that had not my name stamed into, but the name of someone else. That's because I just swapped them at my gas dealer when I had no time to wait two weeks to get them back filled. SH*T! OK, where is the next dealer? Think ... think ... think. No idea. I went into a Wienerwald (a chain making chicken). I asked the lady behind the give-away counter to lend me the yellow pages. I looked in it but there was no dealer close. Seems I looked disappointed. So the lady asked me what I was looking for. I thought for a second how I can explain it and was waiting for a ... um ... "decent" answer. "Welding gas!", I sayd. "Oh, MIG-gas!?" UH!! "No, acetylen and oxygen". Now I expected (as I was already _quite_ astonished) that she would name me the dealer close to. No, she sayd: "I always used to buy it at description". 1.) That was quite near. 2.) Never have seen that dealer 3.) She sayd "I always used". Guess I was looking quite stupid to get such an answer. Then she sayd, that she is _now_ buying the Corgon (that's a brand name for mix gas) at a different place. I must have been looking more stupid. Then I explained here the thing with my property bottles, and she sayd, that this dealer will make not hussles, as long they are not stamped with "Linde". ***Bafff*** That lady ('bout 30 old, not the nicest one but far from being ugly) is telling me where to get OA gas and knows how the dealer will handle my private bottles! They do exist, good wimen. Even if they are disguised as chicken grillers. PS: That gas dealer (and welding equipment) made no problems and off I went with two filled bottles and a shop I will revisit, because it is much closer than the one I used to go to get welding stuff. Nick -- Motor Modelle // Engine Models http://www.motor-manufaktur.de DIY-DRO - YADRO - Eigenbau-Digitalanzeige |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
:) It's fun to get surprises like that!!!
Nick Müller wrote: Hi, just wanted to share what happened today: Went out of OA gas, so I packed the bottles into the car and drove to my gas dealer. Closed! Nada! Nix! He gave up. :-( Now I have private bottles, that had not my name stamed into, but the name of someone else. That's because I just swapped them at my gas dealer when I had no time to wait two weeks to get them back filled. SH*T! OK, where is the next dealer? Think ... think ... think. No idea. I went into a Wienerwald (a chain making chicken). I asked the lady behind the give-away counter to lend me the yellow pages. I looked in it but there was no dealer close. Seems I looked disappointed. So the lady asked me what I was looking for. I thought for a second how I can explain it and was waiting for a ... um ... "decent" answer. "Welding gas!", I sayd. "Oh, MIG-gas!?" UH!! "No, acetylen and oxygen". Now I expected (as I was already _quite_ astonished) that she would name me the dealer close to. No, she sayd: "I always used to buy it at description". 1.) That was quite near. 2.) Never have seen that dealer 3.) She sayd "I always used". Guess I was looking quite stupid to get such an answer. Then she sayd, that she is _now_ buying the Corgon (that's a brand name for mix gas) at a different place. I must have been looking more stupid. Then I explained here the thing with my property bottles, and she sayd, that this dealer will make not hussles, as long they are not stamped with "Linde". ***Bafff*** That lady ('bout 30 old, not the nicest one but far from being ugly) is telling me where to get OA gas and knows how the dealer will handle my private bottles! They do exist, good wimen. Even if they are disguised as chicken grillers. PS: That gas dealer (and welding equipment) made no problems and off I went with two filled bottles and a shop I will revisit, because it is much closer than the one I used to go to get welding stuff. Nick |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
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OT but metal content: They do exist ...
According to Bruce L. Bergman :
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:10:02 +0100, (Nick Müller) wrote: That lady ('bout 30 old, not the nicest one but far from being ugly) is telling me where to get OA gas and knows how the dealer will handle my private bottles! [ ... ] Serendipity. Some ladies actually listen when Dear Hubby shares their secret sources.... Or -- perhaps she is an artist in her spare time, doing welded sculptures. Enjoy, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
DoN. Nichols wrote:
Or -- perhaps she is an artist in her spare time, doing welded sculptures. She told me that she is doing body work. ;-) No, that is welding cars! Nick -- Motor Modelle // Engine Models http://www.motor-manufaktur.de DIY-DRO - YADRO - Eigenbau-Digitalanzeige |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
Nick Müller wrote:
DoN. Nichols wrote: Or -- perhaps she is an artist in her spare time, doing welded sculptures. She told me that she is doing body work. ;-) No, that is welding cars! Well, I sure HOPE so! I wouldn't want anyone working over MY body with an Oxy-Acetylene flame! I have felt the far edges of the flame on occasion, and I know it has VASTLY more heat transfer capacity than a propane-air flame. Much less room for careless error! Jon |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
Bruce L. Bergman wrote:
Over here in the US, there are a lot of older women who know an awful lot about industrial and manufacturing work if you know to ask them. They haven't had the incentive to touch a wrench or a torch in decades, they went back to their families, kitchens and knitting. Their collective nickname was "Rosie the Riveter." Perhaps you've heard of them? Those in Germany in 1944 heard FROM them, so to speak, as the waves of bombers flew overhead. There's a woman in our metropolitan area who is building full-custom motorcycles, designed especially for women, but also selling quite a few to the smaller, wiry sort of guys, in the $50,000 price range. Kind of a mystery to me, but my hat is off to such entrepreneurship, male OR female! This is not a one-off sort of business, she's making several hundred a year. I gather she uses an off-the-shelf engine/ transmission, and wheels/axles, but the rest is basically all made in her shop. Jon |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
Jon Elson wrote:
I wouldn't want anyone working over MY body with an Oxy-Acetylene flame! Once, when we did body work, a friend extinguished a OA flame on my hand. Still can be seen, after 30 years. Nick -- Motor Modelle // Engine Models http://www.motor-manufaktur.de DIY-DRO - YADRO - Eigenbau-Digitalanzeige |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:46:10 -0600, Jon Elson
wrote: Nick Müller wrote: DoN. Nichols wrote: Or -- perhaps she is an artist in her spare time, doing welded sculptures. She told me that she is doing body work. ;-) No, that is welding cars! Well, I sure HOPE so! I wouldn't want anyone working over MY body with an Oxy-Acetylene flame! I have felt the far edges of the flame on occasion, and I know it has VASTLY more heat transfer capacity than a propane-air flame. Much less room for careless error! Jon The fine art of hair removal???? Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
Gerald Miller wrote:
Well, I sure HOPE so! I wouldn't want anyone working over MY body with an Oxy-Acetylene flame! I have felt the far edges of the flame on occasion, and I know it has VASTLY more heat transfer capacity than a propane-air flame. Much less room for careless error! The fine art of hair removal???? Temporary, permanent or final? Nick -- Motor Modelle // Engine Models http://www.motor-manufaktur.de DIY-DRO - YADRO - Eigenbau-Digitalanzeige |
OT but metal content: They do exist ...
Nick Müller wrote:
Jon Elson wrote: I wouldn't want anyone working over MY body with an Oxy-Acetylene flame! Once, when we did body work, a friend extinguished a OA flame on my hand. Still can be seen, after 30 years. With friends like that I hope you don't have enemies. Nick -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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