Welding earth clamp

[Dirty_Vinylpusher]

Picked up this totally awesome oldskool welding earth clamp at the scrap yard for ten bucks today!

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Nice score!
Love old welding equipment!

Luke.

 

[Dirty_Vinylpusher]

I was just reading some blurb the other day where the bloke reckons these are the best thing ever.

And then I found one haha.

 

[deven_science]

I've got one that I've been hanging onto for years, thinking that I can someday make it into a seat spring, or something.

 

[horsefarmer]

Went to a farm auction years ago, there was a ancient 300 amp forney welder cables rods crappy helmet and all. I joked to a buddy "look at that pos" He told me some of those old welders were really good and I won the heavy monster for the opening bid of $25. I'm still using it today on the farm and it's saved me A lot of $. All I did to it since I bought it is blow the dust out of it and oil the cooling fan. Just like bikes, they used to make a lot of stuff better in the old days.

 

[Dirty_Vinylpusher]

Went to a farm auction years ago, there was a ancient 300 amp forney welder cables rods crappy helmet and all. I joked to a buddy "look at that pos" He told me some of those old welders were really good and I won the heavy monster for the opening bid of $25. I'm still using it today on the farm and it's saved me A lot of $. All I did to it since I bought it is blow the dust out of it and oil the cooling fan. Just like bikes, they used to make a lot of stuff better in the old days.

Photo?

 

[horsefarmer]

Sure here it is - Forney 275 amp AC stick welder.

These days somebody would scrap it for the copper but it's still welding!

 

[Dirty_Vinylpusher]

Wow that's a beauty!

Part of me says clear coat it And polish up the connection points, while the other part says leave it as it is....

 

[LukeTheJoker]

That old welder is a beauty! I bet you never need to stop for it to cool down on the duty cycle like cheap ones these days!

Luke.

 

[horsefarmer]

Yes it is a tank really heavy duty!
I know what you mean about duty cycle! I used to have a cheapo century wire welder started shutting down to cool off after a few minutes of welding - annoying! Welded up my front end loader 3/8 to 1/4 inch plate - think it was running 250 amps - probably do it all day long! I do leave it set a few minutes Idling when I'm done using it to let the fan cool it down before shutting it down. Never watched our electric meter while it was being used though.