On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:38:26 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote the following:

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

Yabbut, think how bad you'd feel if you had to call a welder out for
that 3 minute weld. Count your blessings that A) You could do the
weld yourself, B) You own welders, and C) that you know how to and
have the parts to repair your own schtuff!

Yeah, it's a PITA, but it beats the alternatives.

--
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what
to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- George S. Patton