Old school welding sets
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As promised, here are a couple of pics of the welder that use to belong to my Dad.  It is an Oxford Bantam 180.  Why you would name a welder after a chook simply baffles me...  The label states that it takes 23 litres of oil and I know that I need to use a chain block to lift it on/off my ute.

   
   
   

I must give it a clean one day...
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#12
Hi Darren 


Thats the same model I had ,,,,,,,but older ,yours has very fetching racing stripes Big Grin  , mine just plain green . 

Quote:Why you would name a welder after a chook simply baffles me...


Because it's a small chicken  Rotfl ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I thought a chook was a lump of wood  Big Grin




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Don't you get Three Jaw and Four Jaw Chooks ??
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This always cracks me up  Rotfl Rotfl 







A good bit of ozzy humour   Smiley-eatdrink004


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ROFL
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Well the snow has finally gone away enough to get to the shed and it's bright enough to see inside, so I went in and took a pic of the old school welder I have here. Needless to say, I don't plan on plugging it in any time soon, but I have used it before. "before" being more than 35 years ago. Back then the plate was visible, as you can see, not so much now.

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Hi All,

I've had this welder years, replenished the oil with 'Electrical Oil', but as has been said it looked and felt like hydraulic oil.

I done hundreds of welds with it, and I hope it will go on till I don't...


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(02-01-2016, 04:51 PM)Vinny Wrote: Well the snow has finally gone away enough to get to the shed and it's bright enough to see inside, so I went in and took a pic of the old school welder I have here.  Needless to say, I don't plan on plugging it in any time soon, but I have used it before.  "before" being more than 35 years ago.  Back then the plate was visible, as you can see, not so much now.

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Vinny, if you aren't going to use it as a welder I have the perfect project for you.   Smile

I used to know a guy that I called Dr. Frankenstein, because he was always creating lightning in the garage and all around his house. He was REAL big into building Tesla coils, and had one 6 - 7 feet tall. I have video (VHS unfortunately) of him doing all kinds of crazy things with that machine.   Yikes

He used an old Lincoln tombstone welder as the power source. That fed a power pole transformer wired in backwards and used as a step up transformer. I remember he sometimes used huge insulators (about 8" dia. and 12 inches high) on the output wiring. The type you would find a power line hanging from on a mega KW tower.

So if you ever get bored - I can put you in touch.....   Rotfl  Rotfl    Rotfl

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LOL, I'll keep that in mind! A couple of years ago I saw a Storage Wars Texas where a couple of good 'ol boys got some tesla coil hardware in a locker they won. They ended up going to Oklahoma to see a guy that was big into it. When it started getting dark out he took them outside for a demo. I'm pretty sure those to guys left with different color underwear than they arrived with!
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(01-06-2016, 06:16 PM)RobWilson. Wrote: Evening chaps  Big Grin   


Was given this old oil cooled set today , 

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something about it failing a PAT test  Rotfl Rotfl

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I rued the day I got rid of my old oil cooled Oxford welding set ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,now I have a bigger one to mess with  Big Grin

so have any of you lads got any old welding sets  hiding away ?


Rob

Given it?? jammy sod!!, My brother & I wired a farmhouse out about 36 yrs ago & out of the profit we both bought a pickhill bantam set each like yours [they were made 16 miles up the a19 at Thirsk]from where I live, a fantastic set, proper old school stuff people poo poo 'em 'cos they're heavy[true] but gr8 in the workshop ,weld all day[& night] & never cut out,keep all your modern ones with electronics these things never fail, my brother took the top off recently & everything was good,no corrosion or low oil heavy to lift out though without slopping oil all over the shop!.[Image: thumbsup.gif]
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