On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, der Mouse wrote:
> Oh, if there's a real welder, there will surely be helmets (or at least
> goggles, though you have to be careful with goggles - sometimes they're
> for oxyacetelyne welding, not sufficient for arc-welding). I'm talking
> about times like out on the road in rural India when he's managed to
> convert a spare diesel truck starter motor into a generator and is
> using it as an emergency arc-welder. (No, that's not a specific
> example, as far as I know. But it's the sort of thing he might well
> have done at need - he had a real gift for things mechanical, and he
> did tend to end up in places like Poland after the war, or rural India,
> where you can't just pop down to the corner store and pick up an
> arc-welding helmet.)
Your dad wouldn't happened to be named MacGyver by any chance?
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