[AT] TIG welding--a little OT

Sun Mar 19 14:04:38 PST 2006

Charlie
My wife and I have that deal with horses and saddles.  I generally know how many horses she is feeding as I have to doctor them for regular and emergency vet needs.  She comments about tractors in jest, but never about tools and most of them have paid their own way.

I bought a Lincoln Ranger 8 about 6 years ago and it has proven to be a great investment.  It welds great and is smaller on my welding trailer than a SA 200 which I seem to always have around.  It is a Kohler engine with overhead valves and fuel injection.  It will weld hard for 8 hours on less than 5 gallons of gas.  The Miller IIE(Onan engine) that I replaced when I bought this one would use 12 or more gallons of gas in the same period.  This is especially good when running it as a generator (it produces 9KW) as it will run a couple of days on a tank.

At 40 hours the feul pump went out and they replaced it.  At a little over 80 hours, the feul pump went out again and when I called my welding supply house where I purchased it, to see about a work order to get it repaired(they didn/t do factory Kohler service, but sent it to a competing welding supply), the guy said just take it off of the trailer and bring it to the dock.  They set a new serviced machine on my truck and sent that one back to Lincoln.   That is taking care of customers.  It had a 3 year warranty on the engine and generator/welder.  
I had no other problems and the original battery lasted over 5 years.  
Bear

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From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] TIG welding--a little OT
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:33:08 -0500

A man in South Carolina once told me "my wife and have a deal.  I don't ask 
her how many dresses she has and she doesn't ask me how many bird dogs I 
have".   I guess that should go for tractors and welding machines!

What I want is one of those new 225 or 250 Amp engine welders with the 9-10 
KW gen set built in.  All of the major manufacturers make one like that now. 
I can't afford a diesel unit so I'd have to settle for one with an Onan or 
Kohler engine.  Not exactly the thing for heavy industrial work but for 
around the farm the shop and a small job site it sure would be handy.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill "Bear" Hood" <mmman at NETSCAPE.COM>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] TIG welding--a little OT

> Charlie
> Your comments about reflections remind me of a nearly 40 year old story. 
> I was a young county  ag agent and didn't need sleep in the late 60's.  A 
> welder friend who pipelined days and I bid on 275 16' cattleguards for 
> Lone Star Gas co and were going to build them at night.  We leased a new 
> shop with Galvalume walls and started work at night.  I was sure I was 
> going to make some extra cash, so I sprung for a new Hobart Pipeliner 
> welding hood--top of the line at that time.
> The first night both my friend and I burned our eyes with reflections off 
> of those new shinny walls.  We found some special paint available at the 
> welding supply to paint the inside of our hoods and did not have that 
> again.  But you only have to burn your eyes once to remember it for life.
>
> Another result of that extra work welding nights and weekends was that was 
> where I met my wife of now, 38 years.  My friend's wife and my future wife 
> were horse riding friends and neighbors and they brought us a couple 
> thermos of coffee every night with some snack and I asked her to go with 
> me fishing and the rest is history--3 kids and 4 grandkids (thus far) 
> later--and she still does not know how many welding machines there are in 
> the shops and barns.  And she really does not care, thank the Lord.\
> Bear
>
>
> --- chill8 at cox.net wrote:
>
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] TIG welding--a little OT
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:42:57 -0500
>
> Bob,
>
> My guess is that it is a combination of the high frequency and the 
> intensity
> of the flame.  Seems to me that the TIG flame is hotter and brighter than
> arc welding.  Have you ever TIG'd aluminum?  A friend of mine does a lot 
> of
> that.  The walls in his shop are unpainted pre-cast concrete .  You can
> stand in his shop while he's TIGing aluminum with your back to him and the
> reflection off the walls is enough to make you feel like your eyes are
> getting burned.
>
> Charlie
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> From: <DieselBob at aol.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] TIG welding--a little OT
>
>
>> Just a comment or question on the emphasis some have made about 
>> protective
>> clothing with TIG.  I've stick welded for decades and have made the
>> mistake  of
>> not being covered up and got the "sun burn" discussed.  When I got my
>> used
>> TIG welder 2 years ago, I got a couple of burns that were unanticipated
>> which
>> led me to believe the radiation from TIG was much stronger.  Is this
>> true, if
>> so why?  The frequency?  Less protection from the gas  shielding of the
>> weld?
>>
>> Bob
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