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

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

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!

They do exist, good wimen. Even if they are disguised as chicken
grillers.

Serendipity. Some ladies actually listen when Dear Hubby shares
their secret sources....

Or she knows about that shop because that's where the local welder
they call when they need some stainless steel equipment TIG-welded
back together goes for his supplies...

Or her family runs a manufacturing shop in the area, and she spends
two days a week chasing down industrial supplies for Papa, and the
rest of the week cooking chicken for Uncle Hans...

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?

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.

Moral: Never be afraid to talk to someone about something you are
absolutely sure they know nothing about - because you may be wrong.

And the best sources for finding good suppliers come from the oddest
places. Can't hurt to check them out.

-- Bruce --

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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.

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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
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Motor Modelle // Engine Models
http://www.motor-manufaktur.de
DIY-DRO - YADRO - Eigenbau-Digitalanzeige

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

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

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
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Motor Modelle // Engine Models
http://www.motor-manufaktur.de
DIY-DRO - YADRO - Eigenbau-Digitalanzeige

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

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
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Motor Modelle // Engine Models
http://www.motor-manufaktur.de
DIY-DRO - YADRO - Eigenbau-Digitalanzeige

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

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