Just trivial rubbish but I just realised that this year it is 60 years since I bought my arc welder and it is still going as well as the day I bought it and I use it most days for something that needs welding. No wonder the company no longer exists. It cost me 54 pounds in1964 and from memory I was earning 15 pounds a week, so if you put it into todays calculations it would be a very expensive arc welder. Things have certainly got much cheaper and therefore they become disposable items. We whinge about the quality of products these days but we couldn't afford to buy them based on those figures. The Victa toe cutters were the same 10 years earlier at 54 pounds and wages at that time from memory were about 8/10 pounds a week. Times have changed a lot
