Oxford oil cooled 110B

[Wallace]

It looks fantastic Matt, was there Hammerite on the trolley? I think the castors are from a 1970's Tesco trolley, good quality you could unbolt and repair in those days.

 

[MattF]

None that I can recall; I think it was just completely bare metal. Those wheels are definitely good ones. Two bearings per wheel, and the balls look practically pristine. They definitely don't make things like they used to.

Turbo, these are the carbon arc torches.

 

[Turbo]

Did you get any carbon electrodes with those so you can have a play?

Here's my 110a welder.

Paintwork on the top is very bad, not so bad on the sides. I would like to paint it but that would mean covering up that nice 'Pickhill' sticker on the side. Once I have it tidied up I will move it on as I don't need 2 arc welders.

 

[MattF]

I've managed to get hold of a few carbon rods. Machinemart still sell them too, weirdly enough.

Like that sticker. My Pickhill has zilch in that regard. It's sometimes a devil trying to fettle something whilst maintaining original features, isn't it. Looks like you could get away with just repainting the top on that though. Possibly do it some neutral colour like black, as fresh Hammerite would stick out just as much as a different colour.

 

[Turbo]

Possibly do it some neutral colour like black, as fresh Hammerite would stick out just as much as a different colour.

I was also thinking of painting it black. This is getting spooky.

I also have silver hammerite which might contrast nicely with the blue.

 

[daleyd]

I bought a "spares or repair" Oxford 140 amp unit. Got it for £10 and it cost me probably another £10 in fuel to collect, maybe a bit less.

Went to collect it expecting it to be on a farm or something - turns out it was in a school metal work dept. the top was thick in sawdust and oil but once cleaned off it really was like new! It's certainly not seen much use. Took the top off, found one of the studs for the power connection was loose. Tightened that up, put a new flex on and it worked a treat!!

 

[MattF]

I was also thinking of painting it black. This is getting spooky.

I also have silver hammerite which might contrast nicely with the blue.

Silver would look good. That's another colour which goes well with owt.

 

[MattF]

I bought a "spares or repair" Oxford 140 amp unit. Got it for £10 and it cost me probably another £10 in fuel to collect, maybe a bit less.

Went to collect it expecting it to be on a farm or something - turns out it was in a school metal work dept. the top was thick in sawdust and oil but once cleaned off it really was like new! It's certainly not seen much use. Took the top off, found one of the studs for the power connection was loose. Tightened that up, put a new flex on and it worked a treat!

That truly was a stonking deal. It's lovely when it's an owt and nowt type fault, isn't it. From a school too, it probably won't have even seen 50 hours use from new.

 

[daleyd]

That truly was a stonking deal. It's lovely when it's an owt and nowt type fault, isn't it. From a school too, it probably won't have even seen 50 hours use from new.

Yeah I couldn't really believe it myself, it always seems to be other people who get stuff like that and I'm either too late or too far away ha ha!!

 

[eSCHEn]

Yeah I couldn't really believe it myself, it always seems to be other people who get stuff like that and I'm either too late or too far away ha ha!!

The early bird may well get the worm but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese

 

[MattF]

All done now.

Wire looped round one of the unused terminals, to act as a slight strain relief if the cable gets caught, with these not having any type of clamp for the cable.

Made a little rubber gasket to go on the bottom of the cover plate for the mains terminals, just to make it so that metal wasn't pressing on metal directly. Should also stop any crud sneaking in there. Made it from a length of rubber gasket off an old greenhouse.

Just sliced those triangular sections out so that it would take round the corners nicely. Also fitted a sleeved grommet to seal that side of things too.

 

[MattF]

Did consider using one of those, but I honestly just don't like the look of the plastic or plated ones, and I have no spare brass ones knocking about.

 

[eSCHEn]

Definite no plastic gland on that, it'd look daft

 

[brightspark]

so its got a plastic shroud instead

 

[eSCHEn]

so its got a plastic shroud instead

Actually, yeah - I thing a gland would be too modern but the strain relief (even though it is plastic) looks much more in keeping.

 

[brightspark]

leave it as it is and put a tie wrap over the cable inside as a restraint and thats suficient or superglue the cable in the sleeve

 

[MattF]

so its got a plastic shroud instead

Rubber, not plastic. I'll have a dig round tomorrow and see if there's owt I can nick off something else for it. There might be a brass gland knocking about on an old motor, if I'm lucky.

 

[MattF]

If you change your mind matt, I've got some black plastic ones that are industrialish looking...

Cheers. I'll give you a shout if I decide to go that route.

 

[MattF]

Definite no plastic gland on that, it'd look daft

I was thinking it'd look a bit out of place too. Always hard to visualise without trying though.

Another method I could possibly use for clamping the cable, would be to pop a fibre washer and nut on either the 200V or 220V connection and use that to clamp the cable.

 

[MattF]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25MM-Brass-Trs-Stuffing-Cable-Gland-/260927979462?hash=item3cc084ffc6

might be of interest?

That type would definitely look more in keeping with the age of the unit.