Hi T1,
Obviously I'm coming to this conversation late
(I have an excuse!).
In my pre-retirement days I had a job where my main task was rewriting Chinglish and German/English manuals in words of one syllable that purchasers of
(generally) heavy equipment could understand.
I also had the distinction of translating programmers' instructions into 'proper' English for the Gov't department I worked for when they introduced a brand-new technology called "
The Internet".
So I know your pain. Sometimes I had to get in front of a terminal and just take a stab at what the programmers meant, making my own notes as I went.
As far as welding goes, I asked a bloke at our Men's Shed if he could weld a garden arch for me, as it was for a slope and one leg had to be longer.
He said
"No, but I'll teach you to weld and you can do it yourself!"
The arch is still standing and weighed down with a massive climbing rose, so I must have been a good student. My welds are not pretty, but they hold.
