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Re: welding tractor for bridge - 2 lines railway span

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Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> writes:

> On 5/2/2023 1:03 AM, Henry Mateo wrote:
>> Welding a tractor for a 2-line railway span is an important and
>> difficult task that takes a lot of skill and accuracy.
>> To make sure the bridge is safe and the structure is sound, you need
>> to know a lot about how to build and how the bridge is put together.
>>
>
> You need to go back to the kiddy pool , Henry . Rich is probably one
> of the most experienced weldors on this USENET NEWSGROUP - screw
> polytech , they're stealing content and representing it as their own
> product . I've read most everything Richard has posted and while I
> didn't understand a lot of what he wrote , what I did understand has
> made me a better weldor .
> -- 
> Snag
> "You can lead a dummy to facts
> but you can't make him think."

Belated comment and response.

I would like to dedicate much to the mentoring of the late Randy
Zimmerman.
Who contributed much to this group.
We continued in private communications.

He mentored me from the late 1990's until he died a couple of years
ago.

I did meet him in-person in late 2008.  Flying into Vancouver, I
realised I had no idea what he looked like, so I emerged in the
arrivals hall holding up a sign saying his name - and there he was
approaching me.

I have been there thinking "I could ask Randy how you actually do
this" then I have to think no, that is now lost and I have to survive
on what I know so far and make up the rest as I go along.

I feel grateful to the Zimmerman family who accepted / indulged Randy
advising me, and I owe a lot to him.  As in - in all aspects of what
is around me which bring me joy I owe a lot to how he gave me the
means to create a life by simply doing, and the grand picture took form
out of the activities and where it meanderingly took me.

Ernie Leimkuhler deserves mention.
His own clear-thinking take on things.
Glad my writings managed to bring him amusement.

I've had other mentoring coming from totally different places.  On
fatigue that came to me from someone who was a voice on the end of the
phone when I dialed, and he talked me through the progression of my
tests.  From the most elementary replications of the most basic,
through to thrusting my investigations along novel paths.

But anyway, may I dedicate to the late Randy Zimmerman and wish well
to his family wherever their paths have lead them.

Regards to all

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Re: welding tractor for bridge - 2 lines railway span Henry Mateo <b12af9bf1b09188c1f26e1216fcee7e5@example.com> - 2023-05-02 06:03 +0000
  Re: welding tractor for bridge - 2 lines railway span Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> - 2023-05-02 13:57 -0500
    Re: welding tractor for bridge - 2 lines railway span "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2023-05-02 16:43 -0400
    Re: welding tractor for bridge - 2 lines railway span Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2023-09-03 22:47 +0100

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