Yeah but nostalgia when it comes to the Banks family could mean converting the price label into decimel.

They keep everything.

From way back.

Good guys though.

I once (having read about them in a '60's car maintenance book in the library) asked about a 12V welding torch in there and the father went into the back shop, blew some dust off a cardboard box, and there one was.

A bronze holder for a carbon electrode, with a wooden handle and a rubber-insulated lead ending in a big croc-clip. Think you were supposed to use it like a TIG torch.

He said they worked, and perhaps it would have in his hands. Didn't work for me but I was delighted to try it. Cost buttons.

Living history.Can't find any trace of the gizmo on the Internyet

Edited by edlithgow on 30/08/2018 at 19:28

Yeah I recall them advertised in "practical motorist"

Seem to recall they worked on a kind of woodpeker system,

tap/tap/tap.......

NOW you tell me. Don't think I tried that.

I could see how it MIGHT tend to limit the current and get around the difficulty of maintaining an arc.

I couldn't get any kind of arc going at 12V. If I upped it to 24V with another battery I could run an arc but the cable started to smoke.

Gave up eventually. Dunno what happened to the gizmo but I imagine my brother chucked it after I went to Taiwan.

Anoother link wi't past gone....