Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
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Re vera, potas bene.
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My wife's is a bunch of tiny stones, little diamonds and emeralds mixed up in a white gold ring as she doesn't like yellow gold. I couldn't afford much, I was 22 years old and working as a janitor when we married. The stones kept falling out and we kept having them replaced. Eventually there was so much solder on the prongs holding the tiny stones in that you can now see more solder than stone. Last year I asked her if she would like a new one as I can afford a (slightly!) better one now, maybe a single stone that's big enough to see anyway. She said even as it is, the ring means more to her than any other ever could and she didn't want another one.
So I used the money to buy a cutting torch instead.
So I used the money to buy a cutting torch instead.
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The last thing I used it for was to cut out a 5"x5"x1/4" thick steel plate to weld a trailer tongue jack mount to so that (after I drilled holes in the 4 corners of the plate) the whole assembly could be bolted
Oh, wait a second, I'll take a pic.
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My German pals, said they saw a few go by. Knew they were yours, they said Jersey Girl on the side
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I used the torch to cut the square piece out of a bigger sheet of steel, then I drilled the holes and welded the tube to it. The square piece will be bolted to a trailer tongue and the jack will mount on the tube with a pin. The tube was supposed to be welded directly to the trailer per the instructions but my neighbor wanted it to be removeable. So now the plate can be unbolted and the whole assembly removed.
Glad you asked, I bet!
Glad you asked, I bet!
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My OH is a sheet metal worker...it's a long story. He wanted to be a guitarist and his mother wasn't in agreement and so she insisted he did an apprenticeship instead. He ended up doing sheet metal work and playing the guitar in local bands in the evenings.
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