At 08:21 hours 06/03/2005, Alan and Clare Wesson wrote: >>>"Mechanical Inert Gas" - 80 hits >>>"Metal Inert Gas" - 12,700 hits > >Mikoyan-Gurevich - 20,800 hits I can add to the nonsense by adding that I first heard it described as "Metallic Inert Gas" >Cheers > >Alan > >P.S. Sorry - of course, that should be MiG... ...almost all of which were riveted and not welded. tony..