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To: Gauguin who wrote (41049)	11/4/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Used to get a similar thing with lead when recoring a rad or cleaning out a seam to re-solder it. You would be heating the seam with your torch and a bit of trapped antifreeze would boil in the seam and cause the lead to shoot at you once it became liquified. It used to get stuck all over my t-shirts and jeans... even got it in the eye a few times which sounds worse than it was because the little drop of lead would be cooling just as it hit the wet surface of your eye... YIKES!!! Why didn't we used to wear safety goggles back then, eh!!! That was about... uhmmm... 20+ years ago... funny how we didn't worry about fumes, lead, getting shot in the eyes, etc..... ...The times they are a-changin'.... (Thank goodness....)....

To: Gauguin who wrote (41049)	11/5/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: CharleyMike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<And are these hot tiny balls (!) the same that become dingleberries? > Yep, that's them. They can make ya' dance like Mr. Bojangles when they land in your boot. Most ol'timer wire welders' arms have reverse freckles( hundreds of little white spots that are really burn scars). The fun begins when your hood is down, the weld is going in smooth and your nose picks up the aroma of burning clothing. Cringing is the most immediate reaction while you try to figure out what's burning where and who. We sometimes lit a shop rag and threw it near a co-worker so we could watch him try to figure where his clothes were on fire. Been on both sides of that one.