suprised by the old buzzbox

[dannyp]

well my arc inverter kicked the bucket so found myself diging out my old buzz box.

it's an old SIP turbo weld 8. had to make some new leads for it as last time it was used I melted the torch and since then stole the earth lead. as i'm allways hearing these air-cooled sets will only burn about 2 rods and quit on the cut-out I thought i'd give it a bit of a test before carrying it to far.

so dug out an old box of rods ( 6013 3.2 sifs )

so and then a few more to see if I can find the cutout

quite surprised it managed that without issue, and didn't find the thermal cutout was starting to smell of hot dust so it probably was not far away. so quick clean with wire brush, bit out of practice but dint think this was to terrible

tried to burn some 7018's but as expected that didn't work much

 

[octo0072000]

no images showing?

 

[dannyp]

having a bit of a fight with that, 1st time I've tried uploading to the forum and its not going well

fixed it I think

 

[brightspark]

no images showing?

lol i can see em

 

[BrokenBiker]

i have an old 85amp sip arc welder that suprises me everytime i use it, but its limited to 2mm rods really so hardly ever gets used

 

[dannyp]

I hardly ever use this one, its got the amps but its also got rather a lot of weight and the inverter was allways closer to hand.

 

[PTvor]

Once upon a time they were the only portable (and affordable for the amateur) arc sets you could buy. Standards were higher and copper was cheaper. They weren't exactly giving them away in the 70s - £40ish.

Try the same with a Silverline and I'm sure you'll see the burn two rods then make a cup of coffee effect.

 

[norlander]

Once upon a time they were the only portable (and affordable for the amateur) arc sets you could buy. Standards were higher and copper was cheaper. They weren't exactly giving them away in the 70s - £40ish.

Try the same with a Silverline and I'm sure you'll see the burn two rods then make a cup of coffee effect.

yes, bought a set like a shot in the early days when I first set eyes on a Clarke, I had an Oxford Bantam-lovely bit of kit but not really portable.
Clarke was not quite as good as the banty, but for its price and portability it was well handy, got a lot of stick (excuse the pun) and is now living in a smallholders barn where it still gives occasional service.