Nanjing,
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
(Matthew; 3,10)
I know that this does not deal with the original post coming from the honourable Professor Giovanni S. Crisi, but please let me say as follows.
Henry is a real great fellow and his input to this forum is esteemed by 99.9999% of all of the forum fellow members - including myself - as
invaluable.
Your input to the OP's corrosion test issue was certainly well considered - at least to me. So what I am asking myself is, is it really necessary to ruin all the reasonable input again by stating things like "Henry has taken real offence about..."?
It's simply like jrw159 said yesterday and hitting hereby the nail (quote): "I feel you have a lot to offer but this is not it." (unquote).
Don't you mean - as you are certainly a highly educated and experienced gentleman - that there is space enough within this forum for the whole variety of different approaches to either fix an issue or even just replying to a question?
I for myself mean. The forum makers ('AWS Ross' and his team) have done very, very well by creating this forum as it is. A most wonderful place for the WHOLE WELDING COMMUNITY to exchanging opinions, knowledge, experience and so forth. And to discuss, learn and sometimes also argue - on a well meant and sober basis - since all we know that there is none like just the ONE AND ONLY TRUTH. In particular in welding, what's the reason, by the way, for me that I am hooked since meanwhile 30+ years, not getting tired - for not even one single second - to absorb everything that deals with welding.
I mean to remember that Ross said once: "This is YOUR forum and finally it is, what you make of it!" (hopefully I'm citing Ross correctly this way).
For me, this forum is a true godsend - even though I find much too few time meanwhile to attend more frequently - due to being an infinite source of knowledge infinitely fed by the quasi infinite number of its members. And Nanjing, I for myself don't want to miss even one of those great people. Not even a single one. And you, I'm sure, could (have) be(en) one of those! At least as far as I wouldn't be judged to being beneath your dignity.
No offence! It's just me!
Stephan