Phil Brown wrote:
> This is getting tiresome. Just because SIF called the process
> "bronze welding" for reasons of their own does not make the
> process welding. [...]
Phil,
I have no desire to start an argument with you or Greg Parker, two invaluable contributors to this list, but what I find tiresome is Americans telling Brits that their terminology is WRONG.
Can't we just agree to use words differently? If their industrial suppliers use the words that way, then clearly that is acceptable usage in their country, in their language. (So similar to ours, yet...)
If what we call silver brazing is called silver soldering there, or if what we call fillet brazing is called bronze welding there, we aren't going to change their usage by browbeating them.
Before anyone with access to the archives calls me inconsistent, yes I too have "corrected" those usages in the past, before I learned that they were actually correct for the UK. And because of the close relationship between our cycling scenes, and long history of US builders apprenticing in England or otherwise learning from British builders, I personally think the British usage is acceptable here too, even if it disagrees with US industrial terminology.
Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA