Mystery MIG

[Mower_Racer]

Hello Everybody,

This is my first post on the forum although I have visited many times to glean much useful info in the past.

I have a bit of a mystery to solve and hope someone may be able to help. I have acquired a MIG welder which looks to be of pretty good quality but I don't know who the manufacturer is. There is a part missing which I need to obtain. If anyone can tell from the pics, I'd be very grateful. I can take more pics if necessary.

Thanks for looking,
Andy.....

 

[TurboShed]

Any picture of the front panel?

 

[JML]

I'm a bit confused by your pictures as there appears to be a 240v and a 415v plug in the shot. Assuming it's a 240v, it might be the smoothing capacitors that are missing. The set might be an ERFI - they are yellow and they used to use silly model numbers like MIG700 for the 160 amp model and 2000 for the bigger one. But I could be wrong.

 

[zzr1200]

It looks to me as though its a 415v machine with a missing contactor possibly, plus I can't see a wire feed motor or wire reel post, could this be a power supply for a wire feed unit???

 

[JML]

No I think if you look you'll see the cable coming out the back of the machine is the same size as the cable going into the 240v plug on top. Also, the 415v plug obviously disappears off to the left to provide power to the wooden kids' trolley - can't believe those things are still legal

Looks like a "toploader" MIG where the wire lies flat under the lid.

I also deduce the owner is a fairly young man with blond hair with children who has a job in the banking sector, left-handed and plays guitar but not as well as he would like. He has recently been on holiday in France.

Elementary

 

[Mower_Racer]

Thanks chaps, it all sounds promising so far, I'll take some better pics tomorrow. I've got to confess that I haven't looked very closely yet as it's in a neighbours workshop. I do know that there isn't a serial plate on it however. IIRC, I think it can operate on single or three phase and the wire feed transport (under the top cover) seems to be very good quality. The transformer is huge too, which leads me to believe it could be a good quality machine.

For the record - I'm in my 30's, have mousy hair and no offspring (that I'm aware of). I build cricket scoreboards with my right hand. I'm a bit rusty on the old guitar and I haven't been to France for 3 years. Mind you, I did visit Guernsey for 2 hours recently.

Many regards,
Andy.....

 

[JML]

Ah, I was thrown by the fact the machine is in your neighbour's workshop not your own. This explains the difference in hair colour and lack of children. You probably are left-handed - you just don't know it yet. The cricket scoreboard thing was so obvious I didn't even mention it.

 

[matt1978]

It does look like the contactor is missing.

I think its an Eland mig, looking at the style of writing on the machine. I think the machines are blue and white now though (although there probably made in a totally different factory/country to when that one was made)

Also, it defo looks 230v to me. If you pretend your doing one of them puzzle games, where you have to follow the squiggly line to the correct door (in this case the wire too the plug) i'd say it goes too the 13 amp plug on the top of the machine

 

[JML]

Yes it does, not enough room for capacitors anyway. If that's all that's missing, twenty quid should put it right.