Re: Welding on computer equipped vehicles?

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 09:48:42 EST


andy levy <andy-dml@levyclan.us> wrote:
: On 3/25/2004 5:36 PM, jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
: |
: | An ounce of prevention... :-) I always disconnect the battery
: | before welding on a vehicle. Sure, chances are you will be fine
: | if you don't, but disconnecting the battery is such an easy step
: | that I feel its just not worth the risk to do otherwise.

: But you ask this guy to use a plasma cutter 6" from a half-full gas tank
: and all he uses to "protect" the tank is a piece of
: slightly-less-flammable cardboard. :P

  Heheheheh! Its actually a lot more effective than it sounds. :-)
Ah, the memories. :-) I think I still have a scar from when that
small, very warm piece of your muffler burned through my coveralls.
On the plus side, I did learn not to lie directly underneath an
active plasma cutting torch. ;-)

-- 
                                          -Jon-

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