I don't know what kinda person grandson's father is, but I gather from the tone of the post that he's not well liked. I bet you know as well as I that fathers who DESERVE to have custody rarely get it, much less those that have problems.

FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd:
1775 - American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "give me liberty, or give me death!"

1794 - Josiah G. Pierson patented a rivet machine.

1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east.

1839 - The first recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] was used in Boston's Morning Post.

1857 - Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.

1880 - John Stevens patented the grain crushing mill. The mill increased flour production by 70 percent.

1909 - Theodore Roosevelt began an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.

1912 - The Dixie Cup was invented.

1925 - The state of Tennessee enacted a law that made it a crime for a teacher in any state-supported public school to teach any theory that was in contradiction to the Bible's account of man's creation.

1933 - The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.

1942 - The Japanese occupy the Andaman Islands.

1942 - During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.

1951 - U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.

1957 - The U.S. Army sold the last of its homing pigeons.

1965 - America's first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.

1967 - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.

1972 - The U.S. called a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris.

1972 - Evel Knievel broke 93 bones after successfully jumping 35 cars.

1981 - CBS Television announced plans to reduce "Captain Kangaroo" to a 30-minute show each weekday morning.

1983 - U.S. President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles. The proposal became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and "Star Wars."

1990 - Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood was ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for the 1989 oil spill.

1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that term limits for state lawmakers were constitutional.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
The quickest way to get a lot of undivided attention is to make a mistake.

C0ffee & ph00 is on.

 

I just thought it was because I'm popular


Morning gang.. shaping up to be another busy one.. Gotta post pictures of my awesome welding and fab capabilities that I used on the new saw.

 

Morning,

Cincy, post 'em!

 

To embarrassed to post.. My very first attempt at welding.

 

Mornin'

...........

Busy - - see ya, have a gudurn,

Bob

 

lol Everybody's first attempts are. Did you get a new machine?



Morning Bob

 

Just a cheap flux core.


Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk

 

Hey that's right up my alley. If you have any questions, ask. Alot of people hate FC and they jump straight to MIG because "it's pretty" (and easy too, no clean up, so I give them that). But I respect FC for being the ugly duckling and a challenge. I'll show those prima donnas how to weld with FC.

What are you working on?


I have no idea on how you're suppose to weld for real. I'm self taught from the internet

 

You're not popular. You're just so darn ugly people can't take their eyes offa you.


POST THE PICS! You have NO room to complain. I offered to come down there, FOR FREE, and help ya out any way I can!

 

Don't sweat it Rick "Have Gun Will Travel"

 

An old timer taught me how to wire feed in about 10 seconds.

Main working item. It's supposed to sizzle smoothly, not sputter.

Heat to match the work, and yer good to go if the fit is decent.

 

Crap. And to think I went to school to learn it. Guess THAT was a waste of time.

 

Bacon!

 

Evening, Shorts.

Been a busy day on the computer. Racked up my back so bad walking was horrible, so I did what I have been putting off - - downloading the old computer onto my external, cleaning up the old one and compacting the disks so the daughter can take it. Wow that takes time. Now I have to take the external and pick and choose what I want on the new one and leave the rest on the external. Did I mention that take a lot of time? Hey, it takes a lot of time. ........At least the back had a rest. Stopped every 1/2 hour and did stretches - - feeling some better tonight.

Sure pretty down here today - - heading into one of those deep red Florida sunsets right now with the red flooding in the lanai glass doors across the living room and into my office. Really pretty. Hmmm, maybe I should be out there with the blonde enjoying it. Yeh, that's right - - going. See ya,

Bobby

 

Hope your back lets you get some sleep tonight.

My last attempt at welding ended with me attaching a footpeg on a motorcycle upside down and having to wear sunglasses for two days.

As with so many other things in my life, I know just enough about welding to be a hazard to myself and others.