[TheForge] welder woes

Mon Dec 30 21:31:04 2002

Larry,
You might try just blowing it out with compressed air (make sure to get a
good amount of turbulence going around inside from as many directions as
possible)...it's cheap and might just work.

George.

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Subject: [TheForge] welder woes

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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