Old school welding sets

[Mayhem]

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...

[RobWilson]

Hi Darren 


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

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

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




Rob

[awemawson]

Don't you get Three Jaw and Four Jaw Chooks ??

[RobWilson]

This always cracks me up    







A good bit of ozzy humour  


Rob

[Vinny]

ROFL

[Vinny]

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.

[rotorhead]

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...

[Highpower]

(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.

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

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.  

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.....        

[Vinny]

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!

[the artfull-codger]

(01-06-2016, 06:16 PM)RobWilson. Wrote: Evening chaps    


Was given this old oil cooled set today , 





something about it failing a PAT test 




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

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!.