Fieldres on YouTube and instagram has quite a collection of old lincoln engine welders. He is sort of a connoisseur of the machines, and switches them out regularly, like others do cigars or wine.
Those little r2 units are highly regarded. Personally I am hoping to find an old aerowave at some point. On Nov 22, 2016 6:16 PM, "Curley McLain via Mercedes" <[email protected]> wrote: Pretty cool training. I ran a few 555s back in 75 and 76. I liked em. Unfortunately, most of em were coupled to an Alison slushbox.(640) The 392 Frods got the 540 or a 5 speed transmission. Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mailto:[email protected]> > November 22, 2016 at 3:44 PM > > The guy I worked for was big in the pipeline and tank building industry. > He made his money by designing and patenting a system called a “Collins > PowerPack”. He was a customer of my Dad’s who was the one that financed his > stuff and managed the leasing to the end users. > > They were really pretty cool: > > A Cummins “Triple Nickle” (555) V-8 with modified heads that made half of > the engine an air compressor, coupled to a Marathon alternator (generator > to you guys), and usually eight Miller 400 amp “buzz boxes” in a rack on > one end. > > The whole thing was skid mounted with a lifting eye and a base (fuel) tank > in the skid. > > The idea was that tank builders and pipeline fabricators could drag these > things into the field where there wasn’t any power or other resources and > have electricity, compressed air, and welders. He made a bunch of these for > people like Panhandle Eastern and a number of foreign companies. Our shop > was next to a rail spur, where many of them were loaded onto rail cars to > their final destination. > > He had some sort of arrangement with Chicago Bridge & Iron to buy welders > from them. About every six weeks a flatbed semi loaded to the gills with > Miller 400 amp buzz boxes and loads of the old Lincoln “sausages” would > show up and offload them into the back building in our shop. My job was to > check them out, bang the worst of the dings out of the covers, > repair/replace whatever they needed, then paint the MIllers the standard > dark blue. We did enough of these things that we even had a stack of new > faceplates for the ones that were really dinged up. The Lincolns got fired > up, checked to see if they would produce current and weld, if not, the > fields got flashed, check them again and move them to the “finished” pile. > I don’t ever recall having to repair a Lincoln other than flashing the > fields on ones that had sat for a long time or possibly replacing a broken > or open field rheostat. > > Most of these he sold on the secondary market. The best of the Millers > went into the powerpacks. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
