Hi there
For what it's worth - other volunteer paired with not here today, so continued to run-off pad-welds "getting hand back in". Amazed coming back to it. Running nicely enough. Then used chalk and straight-edge to give me line to weld to. That increased the number of variables being controlled... Going to have to get out good commercial-grade autodarkening visor, and fixed shade have "cheater" lens ("reading glasses strength"). So can see weld more clearly than with cheaper autodarkener I restarted with.
Good to be back though. Going to insist the "cage" would in reality take the force if it really were suspended from the master-link of the 4-chain bridle-set arrangement, even though in reality with sit on a beam (the shaft is flooded from a few metres down - was pumped "for free" by neighbouring mine when they were naughty going beyond their sett and broke into this mine - firmly told by judge that brought this on themselves - pumped until that mine closed). Make sure that if some circumstance did change, thing (the cage) will do what it looks like it should do.
Overall - happy days...
Best wishes, Rich S.