On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:00:37 -0400, Ken Scharf wrote:

Depends. Other hobbies that require some serious skills:
[...]
Home Foundary. Special skills required in safely handling white hot
molten metal, and making sand molds.

With you on that one, I've made plenty of mistakes in amateur radio but
learnt a few things along the way.

Making mistakes in metal casting is not so forgiving...

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Duncan Munro
http://amateur.duncanamps.com/
also http://metal.duncanamps.com/ !