I am a moronic power source.

at first I thought you were being sarcastic, but now I think you honestly missed the joke. I'll give you credit though you've learned a second language which is far more than I have accomplished.

1. he was making a joke about how RIG welding (traveling around with a modified pickup) is actually a process. there's no such thing as reactive inert gas. Although technically you can get argon to form bonds with boron...
2. Oxymoronic means something that contradicts itself such as reactive inert gas, smart management or quality weld. oxymoronic generators are usually located in the sales or marketing departments.

cheers

Giovanni,
The key is in 'oxymoronic'. The contradictory terms 'inert' and 'reactive' are an oxymoron.

jeff

The industry realizing that much of the mig welding taking place was actually rig welding (especially in Japan where fabricators could sell their youngest child for a bottle of argon and realize a profit), and realizing that rig welding was a term that caused confusion with the application of rig welding to those, as previously stated, that maintain their own power source on their trucks, as rigs, popular with pipeliners in which case the only gas available is that which is passed at lunchtime and is anything but inert (just funnin with ya fellas) decided that an alteration of terminology was in order. So they developed the term MAG welding for Metal Active Gas. This had the added benefit of segregating those gases such as CO2 and their reactivity from the inerts such as argon and helium.
The American Welding Society not to be outdone, and always endevouring to restore confusion to industry terminology, since confusion is job security for the many consultants (like myself) who populate the society, developed the 'official' term GMAW, and brought the two gas types back together again, and left it to a thing called an Essential Variable (borrowed from ASME who doesn't even distinguish GMAW from FCAW) to distignuish the two.
Now if this is all clear to you then you have certainly demonstrated the aptitute to become an AWS or ASME committee member and I would encouraged you to submit an application for involvment.

I live and work in South east Washington St around Walla Walla. Love what I do but want to get better!!

Macc

texwelder, I was trying to use a modified quote from an old television (western) called "Palladin" most likely before your time but not mine (I am older than dirt). He passed out buisness cards with a black knight (the horse head from a chess set) and on the card it read "Have Gun Will Travel" very to the point.