there’s a picture of bob on the top left corner of his website. australian, elderly looking fellow kitted out in his welding gear. tipping his hat, er, welding hood. about what i expected. top bloke. when i ordered a new drive roller for the welder the other week i got an email an hour later saying it had been shipped. he’s efficient, our bob. the roller still hasn’t arrived, it’s just a little circle of metal that helps feed the welding wire into the welder’s gun piece. it must be waiting here in customs. being processed. sorted. ticked off a list. etc. i don’t know. bob didn’t add shipping details to the email. i’m glad he didn’t, now. i’ve just looked up his website again to see if i missed something. i did. it turns out bob’s welding supplies store is actually his garage. when you search for his store on google, pictures of his house pop up. he has three google reviews, all with five star ratings. “top bloke,” opines one. “very informative and great bloke,” begins another. “epic gamer,” a moniker that i’m fairly sure has left our bob still perplexed to this day, begins the third review, “helped me get a new blow torch.”
without the roller, the little motorbike trailer we began making the other week hasn’t been finished. we could finish it with the welder as it is, but it needs this one little specific piece to work properly. and it needs to work properly. it’s one thing for me to make a little trailer that goes behind a quad bike, if you’re towing your whitebait nets down the beach then the wheels suddenly fall off and the whole thing collapses into a pile of rubble, that’s okay. woopsie days. oh well. (if it’s not already) set it on fire and move on.
it’s different for a car trailer. which is what we’ll be fixing next. a neighbour has a trailer that needs two pieces of framing metal cut out and replaced. he said if we wanted it, we could fix it and keep it. we’re just going to fix it and give it back. i’ve explained to him that i’ve never welded before now but he seems fine with that. he even seems sane, too. and peter thinks my welding is better than his so it looks like i’ll be fixing this trailer.
oh, okay. wait. i have to go. the old bugger just called. something about his rain gutters flooding the back of his house.
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