It wasn't from the user guide, it was from Lincoln's 4th ed. of The Procedure Handbook of Arc Welding, and like so many other great, yet misunderstood artists before me, I changed it up a bit and made it my own.  Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.  Like when I married my first wife, she asked me to pick a song for the first dance at our wedding.  Evidently, my rendition of the U2 song, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", was not a good choice.  Since then, I try to write my own.  Some people have even compared my talent for writing songs to that of Stevie Wonder, which I don't think is fair to Stevie.  He hasn't written a song for several years because he dropped his pencil.  C'mon Stevie.  Find it and get back to work.

I see the link provided is for Lincoln literature, and it has been VERY helpful , I wonder is there similar literature for the ESAB side of the house? does anyone know? for SAW welding that is. Thanks again, just trying to cover all the basis before I end up in a discussion that may get heated. Is there such standards of the same type specific to AWS? or is it considered the same and endorsed by   ... Miller...Lincoln... and ESAB. Just curious is all, as I really get tired of hearing "That's the way I / WE have always done it for the last 20 years" I am just compiling general operators basic information and would be nice to footnote more than one source when this discussion takes place. ... trying to cover the bases-before the pitch, Thanks, Mark