Bubba finally found a use for those short tong handles. Nickel rod, crackerbox welder, problem solved.
I must admit to also being a card-carrying member of the International Order of Bubbas. I made my first set of Lyman single-cavity handles from Horror Freight slipjoint pliers and my first Lee commercial handles from a two-cavity set modified by welding on longer tongs cut from a Chevy leaf spring. I may or may not have had to overhaul the old Lincoln "tombstone" welder by replacing both leads, rebuilding the rotary contact switch, unfreezing the cooling fan bearings first
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No, I did, true story, long ago when I was tool poor and first starting out. Tractor Supply had what I needed to fix the gifted welder, but no Lee commercial mould handles. I was in a hurry to use the mould, what can I say?