Rod recommendations...

Unfortunately, I could go down to my local Airgas branch and buy a shiny new Millermatic for what it would cost in fuel to get out to your area and back at $3.679/gal diesel and 14.3 MPG.

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Pete C.
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TIG doesn't work real well outdoors, the wind has the annoying habit of blowing your shielding gas away.

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Pete C.

The 6013 worked fine. My stick technique of course wasn't very good at first since I almost never do stick, but it got better as I went along. The Syncro with it's arc control worked very well in preventing any sticking.

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Pete C.

3/32 6013 running at a panel setting of 50A plus whatever the arc control added to prevent sticking along the way worked fine. Certainly not pretty welds like with TIG, but they got better as I went along.
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Pete C.

25'??? 6,500# AL??? The 40' steel containers have a tare weight of something like 8,200#.
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Pete C.

It doesn't have a rating label with the tare weight listed? Of course some of the weight will be the floor plywood, and some component of the frame, door locks, etc I think will still be steel. My guess would be around 4k in AL.

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Pete C.
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Pete,

Is this an artifact of your newsreader, or are you actually typing three question marks in a row?

I see, starting the first quoted line:

25'??? 6,500# AL???

The reason I ask is because some systems will display weird characters as three '?' in a row. "Weird" meaning anything which is not

*directly* shown on a keycap -- things like "bullet" points, open and close curled double quote marks (instead of just two vertical ticks), and letters from some non-English languages. Sometimes, word processors will produce these characters, even if you *think* you are typing something normal.

So -- am I missing something here?

Thanks, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

Three question marks indicates an incredulous question, a punctuational "are you serious?". In this case the reference to a 25' container which would be very non standard 20' and 40' being the international standards, with 45', 48', and 53' used domestically only. And the 6,500# weight for an AL 25' container, when a steel 40' only runs 8,200# or so and steel 20' containers under 5k.

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Pete C.

Sounds like you're conflating trigraphs (from the C Language standard) with escaped literals (\nnn). The defined trigraphs are:

??= (maps to #) ??/ (maps to \) ??' (maps to ^) ??( (maps to [) ??) (maps to ]) ??! (maps to |) ??< (maps to {} ??> (maps to })

Trigraphs were used when the machine character set did not include the octothorpe, backslash, caret, square and squirrely brackets (e.g. some EBCDIC and BCL mainframes, and early teletype and unit record gear).

scott

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Scott Lurndal

Well ... since that last posting, I got one which was showing "???" where I would have used a single quote (like the "'" in "don't").

I *think* that it came from a Mac, but I'm not sure. I forgot to check the headers. And -- IIRC, it was in a mailing list, not a usenet posting, FWIW.

My system is set up to use ISO-8859-15 or ISO-8859-1, and as a result does not properly display anything in the control character range (0x00 - 0x1F) and the same with the parity bit set (0x80 - 0x9F). (Of course, it properly does what it should for CR, LF, BELL, FF, BS and a few others, but I don't count that as "displaying". :-)

I've determined this by feeding the offending text through something like "od -c" or my own hex dump which I wrote years ago for the formatted hex/text dumps which I was used to on other systems.

IIRC, in previous encounters, the "???" where I would expect a single quote turned out to be in the 0x80 - 0x9f range. I think that the Euro symbol winds up there, too.

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

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