[TheForge] welder woes

[Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer]

At 03:23 PM 12/30/02, you wrote:


Larry; those are stout old machines and easy to get parts for. Certainly 
the most welder for the buck. I'd unplug it and open it up and blow it out 
as recommended; then go through it cleaning and tightening all the 
connections and opening up and cleaning the switch and relay contacts.
  If it is popping your breakers that fast , some component should be 
holding extra heat  as an indicator of where to look.
Worth fixing, even if you have it done......Pete

>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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