Trash pick from the side of the road wait gets better. You came with the owner's manual, so hey guys, how's it going so. This was in a free pile on the side of the road, along with some other junk. I left the other junk behind, but i ended up grabbing this and over in the one of the garbage.

Cans was the manual for two, so i figured we'll bring it back to the shop. Put it up on the bench and we'll see if we could figure out why it was thrown out what it failed for, possibly if we could fix it, don't have any idea. So, let's get into it, see what we find. Let's quickly just see what's inside, here got a tip and an allen wrench you can tell this is gon na, be an older one? It's got a vhs tape and is any of it just actual manuals, or is it just do not do stuff? Warranty is not filled out.

What does this tell us anything? I just had to use it. No uh, okay, let's look at the welder, let's go flip it to the side, see what it looks like on the inside. We got bits, you got more tips and what is that? So? I'm gon na call it a mig welder, it's not really a mig welder, it could be a mig welder uses gas in a uh. I know you want to call.

It is a flux, core setup flux core is, it does not use gas, but it uses a wire that is coated. Well, internally has a flux in it. This wire is hollow, see what we got on there. 35 yeah cord wire near gas, so on the inside of the wire, is like a flux and, as you weld with it, it makes a shielding gas when you weld oxygen is your enemy, so you need something to have a cloud around the puddle, where you're welding To keep the weld puddle from getting contaminated normally you do that with a welding bottle and a gas or, like i said, flux, core is kind of doing the same idea, but it's creating its own shield from the oxygen using the flux.

That's in there all right enough of that so yeah here it is set up on here. So uh flux, core! You got ta change your polarity and if you use it as a mig welder, you flip the polarity over and then you have a gas that goes with it and what's got on it for a tip, it does not have the shielding tip on it. So this is just set up for flux core. It would have a nozzle on the end of it with uh air space around it for the gas to come out.

I see we got a little rust on the feeder plug it in in a second. We just give ourselves a quick overlook, how's anything out of the ordinary with it. Those look terrible and just looks like it's dirty from sitting around that's just a date on 87. that wouldn't make sense, i'm seeing it.

It has a vcr tape in it and we just got for output, that's pretty low they. This is a transformer welder and they have what's called a inverter welder, which is more the modern stuff. That's coming out. Inverter uses i'm going to call electronics where this uses a transformer to uh, make the power from ac to dc, and then it again i adjust across the transformer where a inverter is more of an electronic exchange.

You get a lot more out of an inverter for the same amount of power going in, but this is where it all started with. So this weather will probably be three times as heavy as the inverter welder too. So what do you say? It is 110 or 120 volt we'll go. Let's just go plug her in see.

If it does anything all right, it's in the off position we'll see him back from it a little bit just in case he goes poof. Shall we made some kind of weird noise? Doesn't it sound like it's like buzzing like electrical buzzing? I don't want to touch. It smells a little funny too. Let's go uh, that's good puts wire out.

I wonder if there's something stuck in the fan, that might be what it is. Sir, we'll get ourselves a piece of metal and a welding helmet too. If it does anything all right watch your eyes that sparks i'm exactly called smooth. Well, the transformer part at least is working.

What's um, she probably a little less a little less wire. It's good! You can crank her up a little that that might be where the fault is right. There, the crank up does not crank up. You guys see it does not change positions, it's a joke there we'll give it a little throw for a second.

It seems like it's all. The way up like being on b should be like the lowest power i think, and it's burning through. It seems like it's, because this is only a 110 well, it doesn't put out very much. It seems like what it's doing full power, but it's on b yeah, i'm gon na break it.

If i try going any further, it's gon na break. So maybe that's why i was thrown out all right. Let's go shut it off and uh. Let's get the skins off of it, so you can get towards that.

So this thing has big capacitors in it too. So we got to be a little careful that uh, you know electrocute ourselves when they're in there, but let's get in so it looks like we take just all these out of it we'll be able to get this part of it off. I don't know if that lip goes up over it or not. I hope that front has to come off.

I don't really see. Are they capped off? How would that face come off? Let's get these out of here and see if it'll, just kind of pull up and out of the way think it'll go. That was hard cool, all the innards. You can get a wiring diagram on the inside of it.

Let's get you out of the stand. Let's see we got, i don't see anything smoked, that'll get you that's a big capacitor right. There stores energy yeah. I don't see any like mice or anything in it.

I wonder if it's just so it's that selector right! It's it's that one, the one, the top one turns feed rate. This is the power that it puts out that one's stuck in one position. I wonder if it was just you used on one spot so long that it, the tabs kind of welded themselves together, looks like it's got a sweep. Let's get that closer yeah that there's a there's a pad and just making contact with different spots.

Can it seem like it was putting a lot of voltage out there for being just on b? Usually these things just barely make it. What they're supposed to let's get a light on there. I'm also going to uh short out across that capacitor in case there's. Anything in there we're going to let it discharge this could suck jeez i'll tell you! Yes, i was a little on the paranoid side.

Okay, good! So there's nothing in that capacitor stored. I don't see any other ones on it, real, quick! It's on the other side of that. Actually we can't that's just the uh spool right yeah, that's the only cap. That's there! Okay! Let's get! I wonder if we can like unbolt, that pull it away.

Maybe we can get. Let me go get a little light. We're going to look right inside there where that tab is on the pad. Let's see if we can so my thought is that little pad you can see that little pad right there.

It's welded to the one that it's on: let's swap that i'm gon na try turning it! No cuz because that's moving! Oh that's not frozen, so something else is causing it not to want something broke on it. That looks pretty nasty right there that see. If we can make that light, stay hold on one sec, let's try it again. It moves, but not man.

Oh it's going! It's going! I'm gon na break the knob off, though i'm giving it a lot. It's weird, though, because, like that distance there's no restriction on it, so it's not like that. The shaft in the middle is bound up. That part is turning free, it goes man, that's that's crunchy, though i can't get to go to the next one, so something's definitely wrong.

Now i don't know if you got to go, see those little notches down there right under there, those little like cams that locks. It into different locations. I wonder if you should probably just throw me a little lube on there, where those cobwebs are yeah. Let's try dripping a little bit of like machine oil down inside there and see if that'll, yeah yeah, let's go throw a little bit of oil on there and see how well this works out for us.

I think i want it right. Yeah, i'm not going to go overkill. I don't want to get it on the contacts. You know.

They're meant to kind of stay dry. Let's see if that'll click for us a little better, it's gon na have to we're gon na have to get it to go once at least to oil. Everything yeah, that's not it. Let's i don't know, can we get the knob off the front? Maybe i have to pull it right out of there.

Sometimes there's a set screw in the knob itself on the side. You can take the knob off and we can get the bolts out of the out of the side of it might be in the heel. I might just pull straight up too: let's go get a little uh. What about this? One see that one's got a set screw on it.

If you can see it, i don't see one on the other one though, let's see if we can get that off yeah is that the only thing holding the whole thing on could be more than that right, yeah! That's it wouldn't trust that. Would you i'm gon na get that out of there see what it does so if this thing's in 86, i bought my first welder, it was from sears and it just had a high and a low switch, and i i think i had a feed control when, But it was just high and low, that's all it had and nothing would barely weld a piece of metal. Let's see if that's moving anything it was expensive at the time i want to say they were like 200 bucks and sears had a super sale on it. For like 120, that was big money back in 86, that's like spending, i don't know four or five hundred dollars now i didn't have that kind of money, but i needed to weld and i used that thing forever and i'll.

Tell you one thing that makes you a good welder. It's a shitty welder, because you have to do everything with whatever that can produce now with all the offshore ones. It's really gotten pretty cheap. I don't see it was all kind of built together.

Do you better? Can we get the front panel off? Well, it's going to help us, though, if we could leave the switch where it is. It's your thoughts i want to try to get to it, because that that's just plastic. It was just like on the verge of cracking on us and i don't want to uh. You know, kill it because everything else seems like it's working pretty good uh, i'm gon na go study it for a little bit.

I don't know if we can get. Maybe is that gon na help us that's just gon na take the skin off right, yeah nothing's, holding it it's it's free that little screw is the only thing holding it. So look at that a little bit more. You can see a screw coming through on the front side of it there.

So i think if we get this front cover off of here, there's some other screws that we can kind of get i'm trying to just try to make some room. Possibly we can leave the switch where it is. If we can get the front panel out of the way is what i'm hoping for yeah. Let's get this off.

You get that screw out of there. Now you know when something's, really old in the united states. It's got standard hardware on it. It's not metric.

There's that i'm probably going to take that nut off and then the rocker switch. We just pull the wires off yeah. I don't think they have a polarity to them pop them off that let's go get a pair of pliers for that yeah then after that welder i think it finally died before i just got enough money. I was able to replace it and that ended up.

I got the it was a lincoln, but it was a 220 volt. It wasn't, you couldn't switch it. I still have it actually today and that was uh a little bit on the opposite side, because it ran it. It was just 220 and it still had the same selector switch, so you kind of have problems with trying to get the power to be right in between different thicknesses, the metal it never seemed like it was had a great combination, some of the better ones.

I think with lincoln uh, if it says hd on it meant home depot and if you bought it from like a lincoln dealer instead of it. Having like this, one has where it's got: a selector switch for power. It had a a variable one on it. So you're able to dial in the power much better if we have to take the the gun off of it, the cable, let's just see and see if this pulls back a little, it's going to make us fight for it.

It might work, but we're going to fight for it. Let's get the we got to get the let's throw that anywhere. That's out of the way. Let's disconnect we can get the wire out of it and we'll take this out of our way.

I think that's. What's holding us right now, so this should just kind of flip down. This puts tension on the you can adjust the tension on the wire going up. We should able to back that up now.

Maybe all we got to do is uh cut the other end off. I'm going to just unthread it yeah, you see, i went through okay, good, let's go cut the little blob off the end. We should be able to there. We go that's all going to get cleaned up anyway, that roller's looking pretty crappy.

Actually, the wire is not looking very great, neither steal a bunch of rust i'll show you miles long. Is it i want to make sure you don't let go? Should that just on thread or does it have like a there? It goes. It came out kind of pukey, i'm gon na go poke that, through in one of the holes, keep it from undoing itself good. Look.

I want you to see it on the wire itself, the rust! That's! The spool's got a bunch of rust on it. There you go, there's a whole ton of it right. There that's been sitting in a while. Oh you suck! Oh you suck.

That's always trying to avoid that. I'm gon na wind that up what's this stuff, it's just a it looks like the plastic just degrading. Oh, maybe it's the paper from the back. I don't know, maybe it's the paper from right there.

So the gun has a trigger. You pull the trigger. That's what tells the welder to make power into feed wire. That's what these two wires are and then that little wing nut should be just the only thing that's holding the wand in see.

If that would come out of there, there we go yeah and if you had gas, there's a little hole right there. That's where the gas would get fed in through and down the the center of the hose here and there's the where the tap where the line would go in and that would be on a separate setup going through the back of the machine and would feed out Of there the bottle would feed into here, let's see if he even has any of that stuff on it. No, so this really can't be converted over to uh a mig, an actual make it's more just a flux core welder, and i found the noise that we're looking at in the fan. What's that right there, that that was a noise get that out of there.

It sounded like electrical zapping when i was doing it, though, was it like a cigarette pack thing. I think that's what it is. It's gon na break on me. Oh yeah, a couple little tweezers or a hook, so you can hook that in there.

I think it's kind of tied up on itself. Maybe that's the way they got rid of it too. Maybe they thought they heard a electrical zapping noise yeah. I think that's it for a cigarette pack.

Isn't it how long ago, i don't even know cigarettes even sold like that still, will you pull the little foil off i've been there forever quiet now, all right back to where we were and see. If that face will pull away, we got tape around the capacitor holding that on nice, high tech. Doesn't it it's definitely strong enough? That's for sure there goes the warranty there you have it now come on. I think we're gon na have to these two yeah we're just gon na end up just tearing the whole thing apart: okay, there's the polarity you're gon na, remember the the one that goes.

This is yeah. I must discuss that so on the difference between flux, core and a mig is polarity. Also, you have to change the polarity around. It's got a positive and a negative.

Only it just shows up there's a positive negative in the middle, so positive is. It looks like negatives going to the gun, the outside of the gun, so we'll remember that this is the bottom one, probably going to bounce back in that same spot anyway. But let's go see. If we can two more, i think it says: tested 87 on it.

If i say 86 great tool for the right job fight me, will you so that's just not happening without breaking. I guess it's gon na fight me like it said it said, challenge accepted as it thoroughly kicks my ass yeah. They probably have the little ends on them. That's spread out once they're through you got to kind of pull them together.

Hmm, they have to come out they're, just ribbed ribbed for her pleasure, they're gon na they're gon na snap, but we'll put new ones in pull teeth, definitely didn't want them to come apart and came out like half of them halfway there we go all this and It still won't be where we're the direction we need to take it up to get it out. I also want to unsolder those wires. You know yep sacrificial lamb, all right, we in finally what else we got yeah you can get to the switch now almost kind of looks like that'll lift off there doesn't it. So i would think i don't know what that screw does for us.

Take that out. I want to try to get this to back off this, i'm going to call it bakelite, it's plastic. This is what it's going to snap on us. Let's go shove where'd the knob go, that's the one! We want yeah watch, it turn no problem.

Now i wonder if so it needs to be able to squeeze this way, so that spring has to be able to collapse so that it can come up over that cam. That's probably what's not happening there. It goes yeah. I think so much corrosion like that.

That white plastic's got like a that's. What's going on, the white plastic has a bunch of um punkiness. Do i wonder if it just sat for so long there? It goes yeah. So this white scaliness, let me get a poker, see all this white on the outside of it.

Here it's like corrosion on the plastic and it seems like it's made it tight down the center there can we come on. I wonder if we can get behind it. Now, with a little bit of lube down inside there, if not, i actually can take the knob off right. Can we lift that right out of there where's that now it hits a stop yeah, it's not going to come out anyway.

It's back far enough. Let's go! Try shooting a little bit well down in there again. I don't want to get too much by the electrical parts, but we got to do what we got to do right, probably feeding on the other end too, but we got to get let's turn it back on there. You go that doing it.

It's all she needed. Lube in the right places to bring her back to life right, i'm gon na work on trying to improve that just a little bit she's. Still you hear it right. Oh, that screw is just a stop, so you can't go any further.

It's the last little last location on the tab. All the tabs look pretty good yeah. Originally i thought it was going to be like arc welded to one of them. Yeah.

It looks pretty good yeah it screws just to stop. So it doesn't go any further. All right, i am going to work on trying to just clean that up a little bit better in there to get that to rotate a little bit better i'll blow it off with air. Maybe a little bit of uh contact cleaner, just get rid of the the crap on the outside.

Again, i just don't want to get any oil towards any of these. I like it hurt. I think what it'll do, though, if you get oil on it kind of like on points, it'll cause the contacts to burn if they get oil in between them. Yes, i worked a little bit more and seems pretty good.

I don't know much more. I can do you know, try to remove that all together. I have a feeling, if i do, that, i'm going to break something, i think we're better off just trying to work with it where it is, and it's enough to you know, raise that detent up more than enough all right. Well, i'm gon na go put it all back together and you guys don't need to watch that part of it and hopefully, when you put it back together, there's more.

I think i had a whole cigarette pack inside there anymore, while we're looking yeah it's sitting right. There i don't know where that fell out of a little moth, okay, nothing to do but put all those pieces back in there that's about halfway back together. That works a lot better, oh yeah good and our speed works. We have to deal with that roller.

Let me get you a closer so that roller right right there is what feeds there's a little electric motor behind that, and that is what feeds the wire through at the selected speed. You can see, there's actually two grooves on this one closer to you, which is real thin and there's a the back one with the teeth on it is for the heavier wire, and that's it's on the correct one. You take that spool out and spin it around for which diameter that you're running we have to get the rust off of that it's looking pretty nasty, and so we have to power it up, we'll plug the the wand back in see if everything works we'll hit. The trigger we'll try to get it so that that little spot is facing up where we can allen wrench on there and take that off of there i plugged it in that's good.

I got the gun just kind of plugged in it's not hooked up. Yet we should about hit the trigger, though there shut it off, let's even get a little allen wrench and it might be the same one that held there. We go it'll come off there and a little credit i'm going to go. Take that on the wire wheel.

I'm going to get rid of all that beaked on rust there. It's definitely sat for a long time. Oh that's really bad right. There yeah! Let's go get that cleaned up.

We should probably get that roller out of there too. I don't that'll just pop out kind of looks like a wood. Doesn't it yeah? That's got a lot of rust on it. That's the other half that feeds on it, but it coast the other one's driven.

But this is the you know the idle half of it's. What puts put tension on it? I think we're gon na have to get a beefier screwdriver yeah, we'll start with a heavier pick, and that doesn't work. Well, let me just push from the top. I don't want to break the plastic they're.

So close, you know i can get that right out of there, i'm afraid i'm going to do more damage by screaming. I think i'm going to go, get a little wire wheel and we're going to go dress it right where it is. I think if i try getting that out of there, i'm going to break that plastic. I just clicked back into place too come on.

You come out of there. Ah, we got it yeah. Let me go clean the rust off of that. Bearing feels pretty good i'll snap in there come on all right, so i think we're good as far as that's concerned, again, that's the tension of it that squeezes between the two of them and i'm going to leave that alone.

I can't really get in there. I don't want to disassemble too much. Let's get the wheel back on i'm going to take an air gun, i'm going to blow the crap that's in around here too, all right! It's all set yeah, i'm gon na go blow some of this crap out of here. I got nowhere so unfortunately they broke coming out of there.

I don't know if i have any that's this tiny all the modern cars use them for like body panels and stuff. Let me go see, i think they did on plastic for a reason. I think there's a reason why there's no screws in that area, let me go see if i can find something, that's the smallest. I have and that's not going to do it.

I don't think i'll, try it, but i think i'll have to wait till the stores open tomorrow to go get new ones. We can still move the head, though we can still uh just be very gingerly with with power, because there's no support for that cable. Really. I think it's what it's used for now, it's stuck in there i'm committed now should be committed.

Yeah, that's not gon na. Do it yeah too big, so i do want to put that crappy thing back in there to test it. You have to be well. I was looking at the other one, these aluminum yeah, that's aluminum wire, good luck, trying to run that on there and do my stash that's solid wire right, hmm! Well, unfortunately, i think we're stuck working with this mess, because this is all i have rusty wire that has unspooled itself and it's very brittle yeah.

I think what happened was when i went to go, bend it over it literally just it snaps itself off and that's why it unspooled in the first place. That's my excuse anyway, so i can do my best to try to get this fed on and back through. The gun and see what we get, sometimes you can just close the door and it'll feed right around this one's got such a bend on it, though, going the wrong way, and it wasn't happening. I think i got it plus the fact that it's hollow when you cut it.

It has a tendency to flatten so the wire's not round anymore. It doesn't want to feed through. We got it in the jaws there. I think we can back that tension off of here and um.

Let's go straight in the wand out hit the trigger, so you can get the feet all the way through, so the wire has to feed at a certain rate, to work well and right. Now. It's all the way up, i'm gon na go knock her down to about half speed, turn the power on and there's two things that help with that. One is the tension of this spring.

It it puts tension between the drive roller, that's down below, and it looks to me like it might not be in the might not be in the groove might not be on the yeah. That roller has to come out a little bit, i'm off the track, i'm almost gon na be able to see it. So what's happening is, let me go turn it on. I got ta get that screw face up again, so that screw is not facing that screw's.

Not facing the hole, thank god for editing, so that roller is not in the groove, where it's catching the teeth on that it's proud of it, let's go and bring that out a little right there. There you go now. It's lined up with it drop that down the tension feels a little heavy, but let's just see what we get so we should get like an even feed rate out of it. There we go that's more like it and the other part of that too.

Sometimes this is too tight and it's causing it. The spool just can't undo itself again this wire sucks too. It's got rust and everything all over it. So we're just trying to do the best.

What we can we're gon na go cut that off see how, if you can see it, flattened the end of the wire it'll, be hard to feed and we're gon na go put a new tip on it because it came with some and let's see how we Do uh right now it's on a which is the lowest output. Here's, my it's the lowest output and you got to kind of adjust the wire feed speed that match how much heat you put in it more heat that you're putting in it more more power. The more wire it uses so we're gon na probably have to try to go match that, let's go, i don't know two and a half see how that does for us see we get. The piece of metal is way too big for what i'm doing, but again we're just trying to try to weld that that's a little too high.

You could hear it. You listen into it here i was popping before it was pushed. The wire was so much wire. Was coming out was pushing the the gun off the metal.

It wasn't enough to go with it. Let's go turn up to b, all right, let's go to c. Oh yeah actually works pretty good. Let me give her some more wire, let's overdo it, and i can hear that that that was too much you could hear where it was pushing the wire off of again.

I don't know about about three two, four, a and three all the way up. I think it actually worked out pretty good the thing with flux, core you're not going to get it pretty. Well, you're not going to get it like you would, with a regular mig with the gas. It's just a dirty weld.

One thing that's kind of good about it, though, is that wind doesn't affect it. So if you're in a windy climate, like you turn a weld outside, it will do halfway decent plus it splatters a lot too. You see all the crap that is on there. So i think that was uh a b c and d, pretty much with all the same power setting and you can see as it's getting so hot is that you're actually able to kind of burn through it? If you hit it with a wire wheel that that slag will come off the top of it and then just uh screwing around with the top setting uh running a little too much, you can see where it was all puddling up and then knocked it back down.

Again for the for the other one, you guys are going to pick how many form i was it gives you a better idea. What you can kind of go see. I think we're on a again. It's just not not enough power for the amount of metal that we're trying to go moving.

It's just sitting on top and globbing, b and c i'd, say you're kind of in between those two. This is where i was saying that if you have a welder that is adjustable all the way, you know there's no set levels of power that it's putting out so say it's we'll just make up numbers, it's irrelevant but say uh, uh, 30, amps, 40, amps, 70. Amps 80 amps are the settings that are on it. Well, if you need to be, you know, like 37, is that the number that you dial in and you're between like say, 30 and 50, or your two options you're just not close enough to kind of get really a really good weld.

Ah, of course, this isn't this isn't prepped. I didn't clean this piece of metal up, it's a got crap all over. It might be a piece of stainless, i'm not sure, and you know it's not hasn't been prepped and the wire has a ton of rust on us and either one of those is helping here the excuses. Anyway, it's more about the welder right.

It seems like it's recovered pretty good and uh. It should be back to functioning as a machine gun. Plus it's nice, it's 110. You can kind of bring it wherever you want and and use it to on regular household current.

Actually, it performs better than i thought it would again the one that i had, which was like the same output. It was, it was under 100 all the way up and it would barely weld you. It made you a good welder because it was such a piece of crap okay, so i'm gon na go pop. Those covers back on.

I think we're good to go on this. I don't see anything that is uh outstanding. We do need to reconnect that back again and we're gon na make it factory, so we have the right tape that they used and then we'll go pop. Those covers back on yeah.

That was a piece of stainless magnet, doesn't stick to it. This roll of tape is probably 10 years old. It does not want to peel apart and i'll. Show you a trick when that happens, works works on most tapes.

I'll show you just want to get it where it's kind of warm to hot to the touch and what happens? Is you actually see it right there? It will loosen the glue up again. It re-solidifies. The glue and uh allows it to to be taped again. Works really good for masking tape, probably got one strain that got left behind from the beginning.

I got ta go cut that get that to go, get it caught up with the rest of it and then it'll it'll do it so i'm gon na go get a blade factory repair like it never happened. Well, this all back together grab a piece of steel and cleaned up the uh slag that was on it hot rolled just go: try to dial in too much. That sounds pretty good. So not bad! Can we using that dirty wire too? So a little bit of kickback when i first started, but in a little sunk, if i go for a little bit more power again, this is probably about the max this welder can do.

Let's try it one more time. That's all the way up. As far as power and that's what you're going to get out of flux core, like i said, is it's not a pretty well, but it will do you know a fairly strong well again for crappy areas and uh if you're in the weather and all - and it's Also cheap because you know all you use is flux, core lighting sucks, so the weld all right guys. Well, that worked out pretty good huh.

All we need is uh the two little plastic pieces for the support on the gun and i'll chase them, probably tomorrow and get those in there, but the rest of it seems to get popped back pretty good yeah. I don't know how long it's sad. My guess is probably 20 years: it's just a gas, but how long does it take for plastic to how long does it like for plastic to rust? The plastic never quite seen that before, but it definitely kind of corroded itself up to the point where it just wouldn't turn. I don't know if, when somebody grabbed it and went to go plug it in they heard that that cigarette pack plastic around the fan sounding like an electrical zapping going on as i i thought it was maybe at that point they just said.

Ah, you know i don't want to touch this thing, it's deadly and they threw it to the curb, but it came back pretty good in just uh about 45 minutes we played with it and uh we're able to resuscitate it actually well's pretty good too for the Size that it is compared to the the crappy welder that i bought when this thing was probably around that same time frame. You know 87 around there that solar, which was you know, sold through sears. That thing was a piece of crap. I i welded a lot of stuff with it.

I put my my plymouth satellites together quarter panels and everything frame was all done with that. But again it didn't even have this. It just had high and low, and then i think for the speed it had a variable speed, but it was just high and low for the output. Didn't have these four that were on there and i think it was rated about the same too.

About 88 seem to remember um, usually stuff, especially in the transformer realm. I think on 120 volt around back then anyway, 100 was about all you can kind of get out of them. I think the new inverter ones go up higher on 110. Again, i'm not quite sure of that, but this actually was quite nice for flux, core welder again to convert it over to make it a mig welder.

It just would be. You know cost prohibitive with the the price of new welders that are out there now, but uh. This will work fine for just what it. I guess i is say i got nothing else left to to pick away at hit it with a dust rag.

Maybe and that's about it, he's a she's a winner, not bad, not bad happy with that hi guys, thanks for hanging out with me, i really appreciate it and we'll do it again, sometime all right, let's see what we get a little bit test piece on there, We've got turned on a right now it should be the lowest power and each one i'll have to probably adjust the wire feed. As you draw more power, you have to kind of match the speed of the wire the amount of wire with the amount of welding you're doing. I think it's on five right now sounds kind of high. Let's go knock it down about about two and a half.

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