Has anyone used 1-Step Rust Converter?

LOL. Yeah, I guess that's fair. Time is free since I'm retired, I really do want a footring, and it was a good project to develop and practice skills with my new MIG. For example, I was amazed to discover that I could weld the .044 wall tubing to the .187 thick collar with MIG. I didn't think MIG could do that, but it was easy.

I know I could buy a very nice stool with footring for under $200, but now I can spend that $200 on lots of other neat stuff to play with. The UPS man just today brought some new clear casting resin I want to play with for the bikelights I'm building for my daughter. I'm building those because nothing remotely like them is available. If I set a dollar value on my design and shop time, these lights would be the most expensive bikelights on the planet. I don't. I've already learned or improved several skills on that project.

I spent 35 years producing income. Now I get enough pension to get by so I don't have to do that anymore. I'm just now reaching the age where I'd get full pension if I'd kept working, but I've never for a second regretted bailing out early.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: "Make no mistake, we're put on Earth to fart around." I think he was right. That's part of what I retired to do, and I'm doing it. Enjoying the hell out of it, too!

Time to go copper-plate the inside of the collar, and then it'll be coffee time, maybe a walk with my wife if it quits raining. . Hee hee hee....

It'd be ok around brakelines/wiring harnesses. Just rinse it off of zinc-plated brakelines.

It is pricey, but I've never had it fail. The stuff I'm talking about is PPG DP90. It's no longer available, don't know what they replaced it with.

After all the work that goes into an auto repaint, I thought it would be very foolish to scrimp on materials because I kept cars running and looking decent for 20 years and more. Paid college tuition for kids rather than sending money to Detroit or Japan.

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:44:35 -0600, Don Foreman calmly ranted:

Goodonya, mate. MIG is great, isn't it? I'd love to learn how to weld better, and would love to learn TIG.

Yeah, like the $4,000 coffee table. ($1k for the table saw, $500 each for planer and jointer, $1k for 500BF of cherry, and $1k for a good HVLP sprayer to finish it with lacquer. (These are all good for more than one project, though, but try to justify that with a wife. Thank Buddha I'm single. ;)

I have mixed feelings about not having done the 35 years at the same old grind. Mixed because I don't have a pension or insurance, but I also don't have a mortgage/wife/2.5 kids. I love my boss. (I'm self-employed.)

One Atta Boy comin' atcha. I KNOW he was right. ;)

Why wait? Walking in the rain and listening to the drops on the umbrella is romantic. Speaking of which, who's that cutie in your back yard paint shop, Anne?

With the right wife, the only justification needed is joy. That works both ways, of course. Is a sewing machine a machine tool? Of course it is! There's a lot of precision work in a good quilt.

Wife's daughter. That whole project was her idea.

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:41:37 -0600, Don Foreman calmly ranted:

Yes, sir. It is at that.

Single? ;)