Thanks Tom! I was given the AC/DC 7018 (attached) By a Steel Construction Welder which makes sense with him using a DC Welder in the field (most likely. He knew the E6013 was my only experience and wanted me to see the difference in the welds (possibly d/n know I only had AC. BUT! The container says AC/DC. They are a Bear to start and try to run a bead at my usual 120 amp setting. They are over 10 yrs old and I am almost sure I used them with some success over 10 yrs ago. They still look new in color and good flux condition. out of the sealed container (but I doubt tape has all ways been on the seam sealing it. I made a ref to darker color once that referred to my old 6011s since I was not use to that color as being normal maybe until I purchased my first 6011 recently. My old 6011s were one step from the Scrap Metal until I realized my old worked with both being New Animals to me. The new did work better but the old did some course welding (rebar to pipe that would be sleeves in concrete in the ground. I might need to play with my amps more on 6011. With the deeper penetration I needed to come down off my 120 to keep from burning the pipe but 140 w/ worked better on þ rebar and other heavy plate. The Bottom Line! I h/n had time to experiment and do 1-3 projects due to instant needed repairs vs 10 or more per year in the past.

Organic donna - I am absolutely 100% in the same place you are with respect to a relationship. In fact, I turn 53 next week, look and act pretty darned Ok compared to some my age (and not as good as others, of course!), and although I'd love companionship, just don't have it in me to start up another relationship nor any real interest in sex. I am recently through menopause, and I don't know if that has made it worse or not. It certainly is a quandry, because it would be great to have someone in my life that I loved and who loves me. But I don't really have the push to get out there and find it. Just wanted to let you know that you're not alone on that front! Suzieque

How timely. I am sitting here with heat on my calf and socks that have gel packs in the heels and bottom LOL. I am doing PT at a sports medicine facility for my heels/achilles tendon. I am trying to avoid surgery. My doctor strongly favors the sports medicine facility to other PT places. They are different from your traditional PT. More alternative and new methods. I like it. I have had 3 sessions and had cupping 2 of those sessions. The first time it hurt like heck. This last one my therapist used the flexible cups rather than the hard ones. Still hurt but I could tolerate much better. She lined them up further down my ankle, inside of my heel. I have had some bruising/marks but I can handle that. Next week we may start the dry needling. Not looking forward to it, but I will do whatever it takes and hopefully not need surgery.

Timely topic! We live in a wooded area with lots of oaks and maples and stone walls and gardens. Consequently there are many chipmunks. They have nested in my car's cabin air filter and have even hung out in the cabin. Their scat resembles that of other small rodents, but the acorns in the nest is sort of a giveaway. I have cleaned the vehicle and replaced the air filter on more than one occasion. I recently did that, and the chipmunk/s is back again. I had saved a dead, dried out, cool, large benign insect (to photograph) in a small cup that I set in the center cup holder bin. It was very DEAD. A few days later when using my car, GONE! Mr. Chippy took it. So, once again I must go through the cleaning, sanitizing and replacement of the cabin air filter. Grrr. It goes without saying that rodent poop, like the scat of most wild animals, is nothing to mess around with. Rodents can harbor parasites and diseases. I spent a while perusing online for solutions to this common problem. I read about a lot of purported solutions, most of which are ineffective or problematic (dryer tissues, scents, gizmos and gadgets, and, heaven forbid, poisons -- NO!). There is no way to "exterminate" every chipmunk, even if I wanted to. Our home is in a conservation area, for one, and there are hundred of nut and seed producing trees. One year a small weasel showed up and had a talk with a lot of the chipmunks. Weasel was t seen this year. I am going to have to clean out the garage from inherited furniture, replace the rodent chewed garage door gasket, and keep the car or cars in the concrete bunker garage. Meanwhile, I will try to remember not to have any snacks, even food, taco wrappers in the car. No eating and no crumbs. No ketchup packets in the glove compartment. I will look into installing some wire mesh physical barrier around the air intake and the cabin air filter. Not as easy as it might sound. Here, below, is the only promising approach I can across online. It is from a viewer's comment on a YouTube video and I will include it here for the purpose of discussion. Seems like a lot of effort. (Note: anyone trying to install a mesh barrier wants to be sure that they don't end up choking off outside air supplie to their engine of something important.) ~~~~ The only way you can stop the mice from getting into the Cabin air filter in a Toyota Corolla is to place 1/4" square wire mesh (buy from Home Depot), in a small roll, ( its called "1/4 x 1/4 Welded Hardware Mesh" ) over the openings where the air goes into the car's cabin. I own a 2008 Corolla and I raised up the front hood, then removed the passenger side plastic cover that is at the base of the window, and that gave me access to the air intake holes. Guess what: Toyota made it all but impossible to actually get your hands into that space where the air intake is. They put another beam in front of the intake, about 1.5" in front of it. I cut 2 strips of mesh, each one 2.5" wide, (one set 5" long, another one 6.5" long), and I used 1/2' dia SUPER-MAGNETS to hold the wire mesh strips into place while I used 'Goop' glue (from Walmart) to glue those mesh strips securely into place. The magnets 'PUSH' the mesh onto the metal of the car itself, so the mesh has to be placed between the car and the magnets. I just left the magnets behind on the 2.5" wide mesh strips. For the 2 mesh strips on the left hole; I had to glue the magnets onto the strips first, then let the glue dry, and then push the strips in with the magnets securely fastened to the strips, because the magnet at the far end is so far into the body work of the car that its impossible to actually get your finger into that space to place the magnets once the screens are pushed into the proper place. As if this was not hard enough, Toyota placed a bar in the middle of the air intake hole, so you have to cut the screen covers into 2 halves, one half for the left hole (using 2 6.5" long strips) and one half for the right hole (using 2 5" long strips). Because the holes in the beam covering the air intake are only 2.5" high, that means the strips of mesh you insert cannot be more than 2.5" high. But what you REALLY need is a screen 4.5" high, the only problem is you cannot actually get a screen that wide into that space because the holes in the beam in front of the intake are smaller in size, that's why you have to insert 2 strips of screen, each 2.5" high. Yes, Toyota has really fu*ked up big time with this design ! First you place one 2.5" mesh strip over the hole, so it covers the lower half of the air intake hole. Then you take the second 2.5" mesh strip and place it over the hole, raising it upwards so it covers the upper half of the air intake hole. When you push it up it is pushed up and almost out of sight, so you have to do everything by feel, and using a small mirror to see what's happening. Doing all of this is an all-day job. But once you are finished there is no way in Hell any mouse is going to get through that wire mesh. The problem is that there are so many OTHER places around the car for those mice to build nests in, so just covering up the access to the ventilation system will just push them to build a nest somewhere else instead. But at least the insides of your car won't smell bad anymore. ---- Was a comment on the video below. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9JruyHm89g