[TheForge] welder woes

Mon Dec 30 19:38:00 2002

I'm no expert, but it sounds like a stuck relay to me. Maybe just a little emery paper will fix it. Cheaper than another welder. Those old Lincolns are hard to kill.

Donn

>HI gang,
>    Was hoping someone might have an idea as to what may have died,
>shorted, or otherwise become tango uniform in my welder.
>    The story starts with me buying a used but in clean condition
>Lincoln ac/dc 225 welder about 6 months past.  I took it home plugged it
>in and burned up half a dozen 3/32 rods on some projects I had that had
>been waiting welding.  Life was good.  I then went out of town for many
>moons.  Well today I need to weld something, so I make ready, and when I
>turn on the welder, it makes a loud buzzing  noise, and then opens the
>feed breaker.  I tried all settings, AC, DC, and low current settings.
>At low settings it hums instead of buzzing, but still pops the breaker
>after about 20 seconds.
>    I opened up the back and can not find any shorts or unwanted
>critters.  Nor can I find any components that seem to be over heating.
>The noise seems to be from one of the transformers, which I can not
>tell.
>
>Any ideas?  Are these usually worth bothering to take to repair?  I
>don't want to spend a much repairing a used one as a new with warranty
>costs.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Larry
>
>
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