On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 04:30:10 -0400, "Buerste"
wrote:


"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
tanews.com...

"Buerste" wrote in message
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"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
anews.com...
My Century Mig welder don't work right no more. There's an industrial
online auction nearby with several offers. A sampling is listed below.
Could you folks help me pick two or three to bid on? I don't want to
hook up 3 phase to weld, will any of the welders in group 1. run on
single phase?
Any of these especially good for AL?
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My Dayton 230 amp (Century) has had fan motors fail, feed potentiometers
fail and the gun had to be replaced. BUT, I can still get all the parts
for it and it has performed flawlessly for 20 years, except when it was
broken. Can't you repair the Century to do the same? It you have a
little one...never mind!

What's the problem?



Its a little homeowner grade (S@#t). The wire feed gets bucky at
unpredicatable times. Just enough to keep the arc length constantly
changing on ya. Replace everything and it works a while, then when you
really need it and don't have time to fart around, it screws up again.

Karl


I understand! The little guys are a PITA but the bigger boys are OK. GL!

I had to change the roll up door track on my shop bay door recently. So
I dragged out my little Lincoln Weldpak 100 for the job. 110vts, has
been absolutel trouble free for years. Im in a hurry, need to go down to
LA for a service call. So I fire up the welder..and it welds for a
couple seconds..then quits.

Spool tension had backed off..the spool had unrolled about half of
itself inside the case, then jammed, burned out the liner, the short
piece of liner from the roller to the main liner and unrolled about 300
feet of flux core inside the machine. Damnit I hate it when that
happens. I had to pull a long extension cord, fire up the 220volt
DanMig, roll it from the welding area etc etc..took damned near an hour
to get it all ready..3 minutes to do the welding. Took another hour and
a half when I got back from LA to put everything back in place, and
another hour or two to modify a spare liner to fit, clean out the short
roller liner and get the Weldpac back in operation again.

All for a 3 minute welding job...sigh.

Gunner






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