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12th Aug 2017, 12:00 AM #31Golden Member
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12th Aug 2017, 01:30 AM #32Most Valued Member
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https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/belc...der/1153669815
That type of welder had the nickname of "pie warmer" they were great for keeping the lunch warm in winter, also great for TIG welding aluminium.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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12th Aug 2017, 10:08 AM #33
Dean ,
I live in Qlds 3rd or 4th largest, city population wise and look over the fence a see neighbors,so perhaps I am a bit different to your situation. Trying to get onto any bargain buys on old machinery does not happen up here.
I would not be surprised if you powered up that old welder under the cover it would still work after so many decades.It won't be the same with the electronic welders.
The Gumtree ad on the EMF was just a wee bit optimistic as $600 is rich, as even diehards as some of us are, who would not appreciate the machine unless it was sitting, ready to operate, in a workshop.
Most welders prior to the 70's sported copper coils and around the seventies they stepped up to 4 copper coils. Some of these older machines could be fitted with a diode bridge and turned into a DC. It would be a good project if one could be acquired at the right price. I fear many of the oldies have met the doom at the scrappers because of increased copper scrap prices.
Grahame
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12th Aug 2017, 10:36 AM #34
Grahame,
I sometimes travel to one of South Australia's largest cities. I am talking about a fairly large area around me when it comes to looking for stuff. SE of SA and Western Districts Victoria.
Yes the welder would probably still work. I should try it one day and compare it to my current welder. One problem, it had great leads and of course I pinched them off it. 35mm2 compared to about 10mm2.
Dean
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30th Aug 2017, 06:53 PM #35
I also have one of those old transformer stick welders. Had it for some 20 years but was manufactured sometime in the eighties. Works well whenever I need a portable stick welder. Well yes, portable compared to my transformer Transmig 250, that does most of the work around here. Have yet to get myself an inverter stick/tig welder.
However if the topic is old welders, Last year ... or was it the year before? I bought more for nostalgia then necessity an old Lincoln 250 DC rotary welder. Picture below is off the internet yet mine is exactly the same. Welds via a 3 phase motor that spins a DC generator that melts any size rod you care to use like butter. Makes a racket that requires ear plugs, but I doubt it will burn the circuit board the day after the warranty expires Made when the beetles were tossing between getting a piano player or another guitar player.
Civilized man is the only animal clever enough to manufacture its own food,
and the only animal stupid enough to eat it.
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31st Aug 2017, 10:55 AM #36Most Valued Member
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lets see...been in my own business for 20..plus 10 from last employer and about 2 years into a term of ten with employer before that we bought a CIG transarc single phase...i ended up with it when they sold out...so that makes it about 38yrs old....my younger bro has it now
no where a a dinosaur compared to some of those above
they made em tough back then tho to ensure they lived on and on and on
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31st Aug 2017, 01:58 PM #37
Hi Dean,
Would you believe I saw an Abel Mk 1 in at the new and 2nd hand metals shop, yesterday.
It s a shop that also sells the stock,tools and machinery of fab shops that have been closed.
I did not have the opportunity to find out if it was for sale or retained for their own in shop use.
I am going back tomorrow to check it out.
It would lend itself very nicely to fitting a bridge rectifier and an inductor to it making it a useful AC/DC capable unit. Downside it will pull only 140 amps
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19th Sep 2017, 08:46 PM #38Golden Member
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Have a look at the condition of this CIG Transarc Easywelder 140 on Gumtree, https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/glen...der/1160096250
Amazing
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20th Sep 2017, 09:21 AM #39
If theres such a thing as a welding museum it would be an excellent specimen.
That model was the second welder I owned. They made it with aluminium windings but not in wire form as some might imagine.
The best I could describe them is aluminium flat strap.It made the machine light to move about. There was absolutely no oomph in the arc and it displayed a nasty characteristic of blowing a large hole in sheet metal thickness on the strike arc phase.
Mine went underwater at one stage and worked ok when dried out.
Grahame
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20th Sep 2017, 10:18 AM #40
Thanks Marc
The mention of Lincoln Electric Australia and an Aussie manufactured product is something that brings back a flood of good memories.
A lot of those Lincolns were made in Sydney at the Lincoln Electric Padstow plant. I really have to admire a company like that. They used to support those who opted to learn the "science and the art of welding" with notes ,text books and welding education filmstrips that were dirt cheap.
Sadly the current day version of the company is not much like the Aussie Lincoln Electric of old. They old Lincoln were marvelous supporters of the Australian Welding Institute, a body that encouraged young welders and supported them with very reasonable (cost) literature. Don't get me wrong Lincoln Electric still provides online and written material but not to the extent it once did.
Come to think of it the successor of the AWI , the WTIA the does not do a lot to encourage or support young welders either, unlike it predecessor the Australian Welding Institute.
Thank you Marc, for the stroll down memory lane.
Grahme
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