Re: Variac Ballast?????

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Did you "gut" your welder for any particular reason? I
also have a Lincoln 225. Mine's old enough to have
copper windings. I've heard the newer ones are
aluminum. Mine started flashing over internally, but I
couldn't stand to lose the ability to conveniently
roll it somewhere and weld. I guess you could get a
better duty cycle out of an oil submerged
welder/ballast.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com
 >
<snip>
 > Right now it's just driving a
 > Jacob's ladder and
 > ballasted by a 225 amp Lincoln stick welder whose
 > guts were taken out
 > of the red metal frame and submerged in 4 gallons of
 > SAE-30 non-deter-
 > gent motor inside a plastic files organizer box from
 > the stationary
 > section of Walmart. I was even able to mount the
 > amperage selector
 > knob switch in the plastic lid of the box and can
 > use this to control
 > the input to the transformer. It's an almost perfect
 > fit ;^)
 >
 > David Rieben
 >