ARO spot welder wiring

[wrinkly]

My brother in law has an old 169A spot welder he acquired some years back when a department closed down. He remembers that it was plugged into a 13 amp wall socket. The problem we have is that the mains lead from the timer unit had the plug removed and there are 4 wires in the lead. Does anybody have any idea how this should be wired into a plug? This will give an opportunity to get this going wih my mini body panels.

 

[rtbcomp]

What are the colours? The 4th wire isn't a reinfocing cord is it?

4 wires suggests 3 phase, 3 phases and earth.

 

[madkayaker]

need a picture really but if there is 4 wires then its not a 13A plug unless two are together/ one not used and they had 4 core laying around

 

[wrinkly]

I'm new to forums so I hope this is how I reply! Thanks for quick answers I will get him to check the leads allthough he seems convinced it originally had a 13 amp socket.

 

[the snooper]

have a look here you may get the manual for it with a wiring diagram if not email them

 

[MarkMG]

Does it look like this one?
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1588

 

[wrinkly]

Aro welder

Thanks again for replies. My brother in law doesn't have a computer or digital camera an lives 20 miles away so communication is slow!.

He did recheck a leaflet which came with the machine and that confirms that it could be plugged into any 13 amp socket. A plate on the machine als shows V = 220 and cycles being 50/60. Now he has scrambled over all of his equipment to get to the machine to look at the cables -

1&2= Black actually wound together with a Green/yellow the black is labeled SIG and the green ground, ERDE and T GRND

3 = Brownnish red labeled A/R

4 = Blue labeled B/S

I think he is preparing to wire this up and see what happens.

I will follow up the other comments knidly given