"Snag" wrote in message
...
also posted to sejw
Several years ago I bought a Lincoln 225 Tombstone from a friend . Today
I
finally got around to powering it up ... and it works . That's not the
surprise part , because I fullly expected it to work .
What surprised me was that after like 40+ years since I held a stinger I
can run a halfway decent bead . I ran down to Lowes earlier to pick up
some
6011 and 6013 in 1/8" , I already had some 7018 .
6011 at 75 and 90 amps left a pretty decent bead , though a little flat .
Couldn't get it to strike at 60 amps , it just wanted to stick . I'm
welding
on a piece of 1/4" scrap .
6013 was a little easier to get a decent bead with , ran it at 75/90/105
.
Amperage made a definite difference in bead profle . I did both flat
surface
and corner with both rods , and never even opened the 7018 . I'll save
that
for another day .
Up til now I've relied on the little 110v Lincoln Weldpak 100 . But there
have been times lately when a little more power would have been nice ...
and
now I have it !
--
Snag
Learning keeps
you young !


I've got an old Lincoln Cracker Box sitting in the shop as well. I was
using some old 6" well casing a while back as bollards to go next to my
overhead doors when I was erecting the shop. After a great deal of
frustration with its limited duty cycle trying to weld them with my little
HF flux core feeder I broke out the cracker box for the first time in years.
They are crude rude tools, and when I was a kid everybody had one.
Amazingly it seemed to weld better after all those years of sitting there
being ignored.