Was it an AC buzz box, or was it a DC welder? When an AC buzz box is
shorted, I think the transformer is detuned so much that the power
output at a couple of volts is almost nothing.

Pete Stanaitis
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Wild_Bill wrote:

If this at all related to recent cold weather and frozen pipes (copper
tubing).. an old procedure was to use long leads attached to a buzzbox
welder, clamped to the line over a distance of copper tubing, and
flipper on, at a low current, 'till the water flowed.