Something ya'll might be interested in Zach. We had a closed room on Grand Coolee Dam. The dam was completed in 1942. In the 90's they opened a door to a room that hadn't been opened since the dam was built. This was in the 90's. An old Hobart welder was in the room still running. Apparently had been running since the dam was done in 42. Left on when left. Maybe set some kind of record, like that bank lightbulb, an old Edison bulb that had been shining since 1909. One of those old bulbous bulbs no longer made. We used those old Hobart welders when I was an apprentice in the 70's.
That antique looks like if you grabbed the wrong part it could turn you into a french fry in a heartbeat. Quite impressive, and your explanation was even better.
@@TheZachLife That welder looks to me like it's capacity is under played. Have you figured out just how thick a couple of chunks of steel it can effectively weld together? Great videos Zach. Keep them coming, please!
Take your grinder and burn a nice shiny clean spot on the top of the welding table. Clean a spot for the ground clamp too. Will make a huge difference with your sporadic arc issue.
I sent Lincoln an email about your welder. I think they should know that this machine is still working at 100 years. Talk about great advertisement! “Our machine is so durable that it is still working at 100 years” who knows maybe they will pay you something for the opportunity to use this for advertising.
I kind of expected that old welding machine to toss you across the shop, but you have survived! That machine is super cool! Neat that it’s got all that rotating gear on the back. BTW Lincoln Electric is still based in Cleveland, Ohio where I live.
This Lincoln "Stable Arc" Welder, a 200 Amp Motor Generator Stick Welder, was sold on September 1, 1923, to Vern Holt, the owner of Great Lakes Welding and Boiler Company in Cleveland Ohio. #WeldRed
I've done a lot of welding and have never seen a welder that had a rotor in it like a generator...Wow! That is really neat!.... In HS I worked as hand on a cattle ranch here in East Tx. Because I was a decent welder already, and they had just started taking on welding pipe fences and pipe working pens for other cattle ranches. So I went from working cows and building wire fences to welding pipe fences and building working pens out of pipe. Way more fun! It was awesome to learn metal fab at that young. Some of those working pens were fairly complex. It was awesome. Oh and we always used old drilling stem and sucker rods....some were magnetized and an awful to weld. Anyways, story time over. Thanks for sharing this!
In the 1960's while in high school I took an ag welding class. At that time we were taught gas welding/brazing and arc welding with buzz boxes and one old welder that looked like your old beast. It was painted grey and had a brass plate attached to it which read "Property of US Navy". When you stated it, it sounded like you fired up a science fiction time machine, it was not for welding thin stock that's for sure. I learned one important lesson that semester, don't wear nylon socks when arc welding. Keep up the work, can't wait for the next posting.
Interesting video Sir. You may need to undercut the mica insulation between the commutator segments. The brushes are smearing the insulating material onto the copper segments causing poor contact between the brushes and the commutator. Your welder predates the ever popular Lincoln "tractor pack" PTO driven welders still in use today.🇦🇺👍
In the late 30s welding machines became 40 volt ocv machines. They welded much better with the new coated welding rods. In the 1920s most all arc welding was done with bare rods.
Your channel is fantastic, I’ll watch every video. I know you’re busy, but your videos are excellent and I wish you had time to post more often. 100 years later, still works. Nothing made today will ever achieve that.
That welder is very rare i would love to see that restored and working, i think you bring original stuff on here great work love it, well explained too.
Yeah, slate was used back from I guess the 1880's until about 1930 or so in elevators (of all places). From what I understand it is cheap, plentiful, easily worked and the only downsides were it's relative fragility and weight. I think it was only surpassed when resin-impregnated fiberglass was developed.
Man, I love those ancient paddle switches on that old welder. My dad had porcelain handled paddle switches in his shop and whenever you wanted to turn something on, the blue flash when you engaged the switch was always spectacular. And it always scared the 💩out of me😂
Just hazard yourself, but that “slate” is most likely not slate. Most electrical boards that look slate are ebony asbestos encased in Bakelite resin. Your panel is safe, as long as it doesn’t crack. I have one and from my experience, they will work fine and are no danger as long as they are in good shape. Great video as always, love that huge knife switch. Is that motor 3 phase?
I have heard many old hand say an old generator welder makes the smoothest DC arc. I have a Hobart Simplified from the 1940s, originally powered by a 20 hp 3 phase motor. I rigged up a 27hp Kohler vtwin to spin the armature at 1800 rpm, and this thing welds GREAT! You might try using an undercutting tool on the commutator so the mica between the copper bars is not holding up the brushes.
It does, my sa200 doesn't spatter at all, super efficient since all that iron is being deposited into the weld and not flung all over the place. My a/c Lincoln 225 spatters a bunch way crappier weld.
2:45 I saw a lot of electric panels made of stone in abandoned mines... every time i see this old machinery work like a charm even 100 yeard after they bulding, i think we have something to change in modern technology
zaxh youve got more balls than me turning that stuff on after so many years. fascinating to learn about welding and the old machines in your shop. stuff aint built like that anymore
Zack, I would somehow shine up the copper armature. I would not sand it. But many types of low abrasion pad out there. I would then clean the crud out of it. As the brushes make and break contact it causes the magnetic field in the generator to fluctuate wildly. That caused the fluctuation of your weld..
Sand paper (not emery cloth) in suitably fine grit is safe for commutators and was the standard when that machine was built (long before Cratex sticks or Scotchbrite existed). I studied the old Audel guides from the early 1900s when they were the standard industry reference. (They're wonderful books and cheap used since nobody reads much these days.) 200 grit or finer will do and the way to avoid breaking it I use is applying a piece of nylon shipping tape (duct tape is nasty and sticky) to the back of the sand paper. Blow out any dust with compressed air and preclean with electronic cleaner or MAF sensor cleaner to remove any oil residue to prevent it glazing.
That was very interesting Zach. Imagine meeting the people that created things like that welder and rotary drilling bits. Thanks for spending the time and efforts to share all of this. Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
We use to have com cleaning stones , just rubbed then on the com while motor or generator was running they did pretty good job cleaning com and bedding brushes , this was on diesel electric locomotives (main gen , compressor and blower motors ) . Com on your welder looks like it could do with clean and it will probably improve arc stability
Fascinating video. I love seeing relics of the past still in operation or being brought back to life. In that respect museum's are a sad place for me. Things were intended to be used, not displayed as a show piece. I'll be looking forward to the next video you post of anything.
wow, would love to give that Lincoln a spin, we have a very old 1930's Miller and a Smith's at the shop....' Miller has said they do not even have one in their collection....cheers from Florida, Paul
Good old time electrical machines.Combining output into the field coils are those shunt coils. Also used to eliminate eddycurrents inthe coils. Great video Zack
My very first welder was a Lincoln DC generator powered by a ford side valve engine og mid 1940's vintage mounted on a trailer. I have used one of those electric motor driven units to tig weld 2 inch stainless steel scratch start this was for a company that had four of these units and made pressure vessels for the chemical industry and that was all they used, ran all day and night without any trouble, had to be done that way as the welding had to be continuously kept going until done. The machine is what is known as additive/subtractive wound.
Your channel is wonderful. You explain everything so well, just a week ago I didn't know how oil fields worked, you explained it better than any encyclopedia. The structured content on your channel is great. I am a mechanic myself and I like restoring old machines. May you do as well as you have so far. Sorry for my English and greetings from Poland.
I would give that thing a full deep clean on the inside. To maintain constant current it needs to be nearly spotless and probably be rebalanced due to decay, modern welders use electronics to make up the difference in resistance as they age. Otherwise I'd buy this off you in a heartbeat, it's truly an incredible piece of history. Thanks for sharing and caring for it.
I think you figured out both things I noticed. First, the intermittent arc was because the commutator was in bad shape from not being run. I’d take some fine emery cloth and hold it against the commutator while it’s spinning to clean it up. Careful you don’t get a shock or catch your fingers. The second thing was it acted like the weld polarity was reversed. If you were running 7018, that explains the poor puddle wet out and the excess BB’s. You might be right that at some point the rotation was reversed, maybe when the machine was moved to its current location. That would definitely reverse the DC polarity. That old machine is basically no different from the Idealarc machines that were in fabrication shops and shipyards in the 50’s and 50’s. Those old welder generators were built to last forever. That’s why there are so many SA200 pipeline welders still running. Same DC exciter, and DC welding generator. I like your old machine shop. It all still works, you can’t beat that!
Really commonly wound DC Generator Welder. Differentially compounded. Your explanation was pretty much bang on. Produces lots of voltage to penetrate and then limit voltage and thereby current. Really nice old machine!
Good video. It is amazing how well this welder was built 100 years ago. Especially the wire insulation. I did notice that your shop may need a bit of minor roof repair-the roof tin flapping in the background at one point in the video.
Howard Hughes tried to spend the fortune his father made with the bit. Funny thing is, the harder he tried, and the more outlandish things he got into, the bigger the fortune got. Hughes Aircraft made money, his Hollywood studios made money, almost everything he touched seemed to be profitable.
I’m pretty certain the small field coils that the output from the main DC generator runs through are called interpole windings. I work on diesel electric locomotives and the DC traction motors have something very similar.
Neat it took off an ran without any dramas after sitting all that time, no mice chewing up any cloth cables buried in the chassis. Funny enough you bringing up Hughes, I live exactly 3 blocks from the original Hughes Tool Co building which is now a protected site (can't be bought and made into condos like every other old warehouse in this neighborhood). Across the same street and and about two blocks west of it sits the original Baker-Hughes site from about 1922 unused aand vacant since hurricane Ike in 2008, and I'm not sure what its status is but the original bank and its vault is still there. I can take snap some pix and put them up somewhere if you like
@@Drmcclung I don't recall a public place for albums. A search would probably bring up something. If you are unsuccessful in finding something, let me know and I will be glad to try and find one. Thanks!!!!!
@@dannywilsher4165 thinking it might be easier to just make a public video all the same. I'll work on it sometime this week, the weather is supposed to clear up.. I'm leaning towards video since we're all on UA-cam anyway
This channel especially the machine shop videos are indeed very interesting. I cannot get enough of the history and the information. I wish there were more channels that were like this.
1. you are describing arc blow, ( dances around) that is a arc reacting to magnetic field from DC arc welding electric flow. 2. the rod that machine was made for ( and tuned) was AWS e6010, DC cellulose rod, not any fancy drag rod, and E6010 will give you penetration, ( it’s all position !) but,you might have to practice with it a bit, and to counter arc blow, check a lincoln handbook on DC arc welding ( it’s all the same) over the years, and another source is the AWS welding handbook ( free pdf downloads) hint 3 keep your ground path clean and free from resistance, ( smooth dc arc results) and have fun, ( welding is fun, and skilled welding is more fun) and 6010 for dc and 6011 for ac will build skills.
reverse polarity is simply done by reversing leads on the big knife switch on the main control panel, also the original operation was two man, the welder and his safety man ( we would often call him the fire man, because he would pull the main leads switch when the welder set himself on fire (and throw a bucket of water on him or the work area) surprisingly, that was a real thing.
Just a couple of comments.. That shed is just so full of dust and rust, it most likely hasn't been used for over thirty years. Also don't weld with an aerosol anywhere near the table, one spark will go through that and cause an explosion. Same thing with Batteries and Rags, take them well away from the spark drop area.
Good stuff. Funny the other day I look up Howard Hughes Sr. on how his company patent the rotary bits and lease them to drillers. His son Howard Hughes Jr inherited the company after his dads death at the age of 19. Jr had to be emancipated because the age of majority was still 21 to legally inherite the company.
Ten thousand thumbs up! I like the history aspect of your content. I have never been around oil fields in my 69 years. Keep going and I’ll keep watching!
I’m looking for the information on this welder Lincoln list of serial numbers on line only goes back to 1932. That is A15970, the first two digits indicate the year. This would allow us to extrapolate that your machine is 9 years older or a 1923 model.
Slate electrical panels were really common but I bet most of them ended their lifes as rubble. I never was able to find what that black coating was, because it seems to be the same product on all of them.
We had a couple old rotary welders in the last shop we leased, they scared me so I never messed with them. I have in my dealings acquired an old lincwelder 225, the onan engine needs rebuilt, that I can do, the generator seems to work but I’ve heard good things about these welders. One thing Lincoln did well was built a welder that could survive the apocalypse.
If that welder was set up for hardfacing, it was likely set up as DCEN. That gives higher filler deposition and lower penetration. Certain eletrodes will run both polarities,but for normal structural welding you want to run it as DCEP.
Neat old welder, nothing like the old straight DC machines. I almost bought a Ranger until I came across the '66 SA200 I have now. Lincoln's serial number chart goes back to 1932 with A15970 being the last code number. Seeing how the codes in the chart descend, I'd guess your machine was made around 1924.
Very cool! I'm surprised it is DC output. If it is in fact that. I had an old 1960s Craftsman AC stick welder left behind in the shop I now have. It was a lot of fun getting it up and running. Mines got a rack of plugs to plug into to change the amperage, no dial. Best of luck with all that stuff! Fun projects!
It is always a pleasure to see old things brought to life and explained well. Zach, I love your passion and willingness to share. So much enjoyment in such a short little video. Awesome!!
Random is better. I used to weld with a slightly newer Lincoln motor generator. The one I used did not have those cool Frankenstein knife switches. I love it! Cheers
I really like the shop it's come a long ways from that first video hard to believe it's looking so good and man that welder sounds like it could run some rods
Need to buy a commutator cleaning stone to clean the carbon buildup off the commutator bars. Taking a soft pointed tool like a plastic toothpick and clean out the brush material and other foreign material out of the grooves between each commutator where the Mica insulation separates each bar. Be careful and take your time not to damage the Mica as the oder the machine the more brittle the Mica is likely to be. This will solve unstable arc problems. Lastly try reversing your polarity as some rods can be picky as to which way current flows.
A 1920s motor/generator that still works. Pretty amazing. Parts availability will probably be a problem. I guarantee you will never find a modern welding machine that will last anywhere close to 100 years.
Gotta say that good inverters would last another 100 years easily. Only the caps might fail, and bushings in the fan. But I don't call their fault as fault of whole welder, since they're really easy to replace.
Oil field work, mechanical, electrical, hydraulics, auto/truck, and machining. The only thing this channel is missing is things that go bang.
a master of anything.. darn impressive
Haha thanks.
@@TheZachLife no sir, thank you.
@@TheZachLife there’s gotta be a hill on one of those leases or something that’s far enough away from society to blow stuff up. separate boom channel?
Does that mean it's time for some blasting?
Something ya'll might be interested in Zach. We had a closed room on Grand Coolee Dam. The dam was completed in 1942. In the 90's they opened a door to a room that hadn't been opened since the dam was built. This was in the 90's. An old Hobart welder was in the room still running. Apparently had been running since the dam was done in 42. Left on when left. Maybe set some kind of record, like that bank lightbulb, an old Edison bulb that had been shining since 1909. One of those old bulbous bulbs no longer made. We used those old Hobart welders when I was an apprentice in the 70's.
That's wild. ❤
That antique looks like if you grabbed the wrong part it could turn you into a french fry in a heartbeat. Quite impressive, and your explanation was even better.
Haha probably thanks.
@@TheZachLife That welder looks to me like it's capacity is under played. Have you figured out just how thick a couple of chunks of steel it can effectively weld together? Great videos Zach. Keep them coming, please!
The real deal is the stator bits 😮💨
The drill bit company was Howard Hughes family company . That's where he got the money to build his empire. Very cool old welder
I had a feeling, that's who he was talking about. I'm surprised he doesn't realize exactly who that is. At least that's the impression that I got.
Take your grinder and burn a nice shiny clean spot on the top of the welding table. Clean a spot for the ground clamp too. Will make a huge difference with your sporadic arc issue.
that and correcting the polarity
I sent Lincoln an email about your welder. I think they should know that this machine is still working at 100 years. Talk about great advertisement! “Our machine is so durable that it is still working at 100 years” who knows maybe they will pay you something for the opportunity to use this for advertising.
Very neat to see that thing run and not just be a piece of static history
Fascinating. This huge motor generator was a mechanical way to rectify AC in an era long before transistors.
I kind of expected that old welding machine to toss you across the shop, but you have survived! That machine is super cool! Neat that it’s got all that rotating gear on the back. BTW Lincoln Electric is still based in Cleveland, Ohio where I live.
This Lincoln "Stable Arc" Welder, a 200 Amp Motor Generator Stick Welder, was sold on September 1, 1923, to Vern Holt, the owner of Great Lakes Welding and Boiler Company in Cleveland Ohio. #WeldRed
I've done a lot of welding and have never seen a welder that had a rotor in it like a generator...Wow! That is really neat!.... In HS I worked as hand on a cattle ranch here in East Tx. Because I was a decent welder already, and they had just started taking on welding pipe fences and pipe working pens for other cattle ranches. So I went from working cows and building wire fences to welding pipe fences and building working pens out of pipe. Way more fun! It was awesome to learn metal fab at that young. Some of those working pens were fairly complex. It was awesome. Oh and we always used old drilling stem and sucker rods....some were magnetized and an awful to weld. Anyways, story time over. Thanks for sharing this!
I love the storys you get in the coments of videos like this
In the 1960's while in high school I took an ag welding class. At that time we were taught gas welding/brazing and arc welding with buzz boxes and one old welder that looked like your old beast. It was painted grey and had a brass plate attached to it which read "Property of US Navy". When you stated it, it sounded like you fired up a science fiction time machine, it was not for welding thin stock that's for sure. I learned one important lesson that semester, don't wear nylon socks when arc welding. Keep up the work, can't wait for the next posting.
Hey, I think I’ve learned that lesson too!
Thats a cool old machine. 100 years old and still works. Thanks for sharing with us Zach.
Was about to mention polarity but you came to that conclusion as well. It would be interesting to see how the bead runs with it flipped…
Interesting video Sir. You may need to undercut the mica insulation between the commutator segments. The brushes are smearing the insulating material onto the copper segments causing poor contact between the brushes and the commutator.
Your welder predates the ever popular Lincoln "tractor pack" PTO driven welders still in use today.🇦🇺👍
What a beast of a welder. The arc sounds like it's making really clean DC.
Dude I’ll watch whatever you upload. I find you very knowledgeable and interesting. 2024! Howard Hughs
Haha thanks.
Pretty cool. Love old shit, always have, always will
I love seeing this old stuff brought back to life.
In the late 30s welding machines became 40 volt ocv machines. They welded much better with the new coated welding rods. In the 1920s most all arc welding was done with bare rods.
Your channel is fantastic, I’ll watch every video. I know you’re busy, but your videos are excellent and I wish you had time to post more often.
100 years later, still works. Nothing made today will ever achieve that.
That welder is very rare i would love to see that restored and working, i think you bring original stuff on here great work love it, well explained too.
you even have a 1950's vintage refrigerator in the shop......Bravo
I need to see if I can get it to work.
They used to make relay panels for elevators and the like out of slate.
I believe Big Clive has a video or two on this.
Good vid and that welder is a keeper.
PS: Lincoln may have a user manual for this welder on microfilm.
Yeah, slate was used back from I guess the 1880's until about 1930 or so in elevators (of all places). From what I understand it is cheap, plentiful, easily worked and the only downsides were it's relative fragility and weight. I think it was only surpassed when resin-impregnated fiberglass was developed.
Man, I love those ancient paddle switches on that old welder. My dad had porcelain handled paddle switches in his shop and whenever you wanted to turn something on, the blue flash when you engaged the switch was always spectacular. And it always scared the 💩out of me😂
Oh yeah, nothing like a knife switch blue flash that blows the snot back up your nose. LOLS
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Just hazard yourself, but that “slate” is most likely not slate. Most electrical boards that look slate are ebony asbestos encased in Bakelite resin. Your panel is safe, as long as it doesn’t crack. I have one and from my experience, they will work fine and are no danger as long as they are in good shape. Great video as always, love that huge knife switch. Is that motor 3 phase?
They defiantly had safety in mind back then when they built that, LOL. That is freaking awesome you got it working.
I have heard many old hand say an old generator welder makes the smoothest DC arc. I have a Hobart Simplified from the 1940s, originally powered by a 20 hp 3 phase motor. I rigged up a 27hp Kohler vtwin to spin the armature at 1800 rpm, and this thing welds GREAT! You might try using an undercutting tool on the commutator so the mica between the copper bars is not holding up the brushes.
It does, my sa200 doesn't spatter at all, super efficient since all that iron is being deposited into the weld and not flung all over the place. My a/c Lincoln 225 spatters a bunch way crappier weld.
2:45 I saw a lot of electric panels made of stone in abandoned mines... every time i see this old machinery work like a charm even 100 yeard after they bulding, i think we have something to change in modern technology
zaxh youve got more balls than me turning that stuff on after so many years. fascinating to learn about welding and the old machines in your shop. stuff aint built like that anymore
Zack, I would somehow shine up the copper armature. I would not sand it. But many types of low abrasion pad out there. I would then clean the crud out of it. As the brushes make and break contact it causes the magnetic field in the generator to fluctuate wildly. That caused the fluctuation of your weld..
Soapstone works , they also make communtor stones for dressing the commutator /seating brushes.
Sand paper (not emery cloth) in suitably fine grit is safe for commutators and was the standard when that machine was built (long before Cratex sticks or Scotchbrite existed). I studied the old Audel guides from the early 1900s when they were the standard industry reference. (They're wonderful books and cheap used since nobody reads much these days.)
200 grit or finer will do and the way to avoid breaking it I use is applying a piece of nylon shipping tape (duct tape is nasty and sticky) to the back of the sand paper. Blow out any dust with compressed air and preclean with electronic cleaner or MAF sensor cleaner to remove any oil residue to prevent it glazing.
That was very interesting Zach. Imagine meeting the people that created things like that welder and rotary drilling bits. Thanks for spending the time and efforts to share all of this.
Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
I watch this while I tear out all the 1920s knob and tube out of my house 😂.
Looks like something for the electrick chair glad you got it.Hughes had his hands in alot of things.
We use to have com cleaning stones , just rubbed then on the com while motor or generator was running they did pretty good job cleaning com and bedding brushes , this was on diesel electric locomotives (main gen , compressor and blower motors ) .
Com on your welder looks like it could do with clean and it will probably improve arc stability
Fascinating video. I love seeing relics of the past still in operation or being brought back to life. In that respect museum's are a sad place for me. Things were intended to be used, not displayed as a show piece. I'll be looking forward to the next video you post of anything.
wow, would love to give that Lincoln a spin, we have a very old 1930's Miller and a Smith's at the shop....'
Miller has said they do not even have one in their collection....cheers from Florida, Paul
Good old time electrical machines.Combining output into the field coils are those shunt coils. Also used to eliminate eddycurrents inthe coils. Great video Zack
Thanks.
Great explanation Zach! Those old machines were built to last forever!
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Love the oil pipe shop roof structure. That welder sure cranks out the amps. 100% duty cycle.
My very first welder was a Lincoln DC generator powered by a ford side valve engine og mid 1940's vintage mounted on a trailer. I have used one of those electric motor driven units to tig weld 2 inch stainless steel scratch start this was for a company that had four of these units and made pressure vessels for the chemical industry and that was all they used, ran all day and night without any trouble, had to be done that way as the welding had to be continuously kept going until done. The machine is what is known as additive/subtractive wound.
Your channel is wonderful. You explain everything so well, just a week ago I didn't know how oil fields worked, you explained it better than any encyclopedia. The structured content on your channel is great. I am a mechanic myself and I like restoring old machines. May you do as well as you have so far. Sorry for my English and greetings from Poland.
I would give that thing a full deep clean on the inside. To maintain constant current it needs to be nearly spotless and probably be rebalanced due to decay, modern welders use electronics to make up the difference in resistance as they age. Otherwise I'd buy this off you in a heartbeat, it's truly an incredible piece of history. Thanks for sharing and caring for it.
I think you figured out both things I noticed. First, the intermittent arc was because the commutator was in bad shape from not being run. I’d take some fine emery cloth and hold it against the commutator while it’s spinning to clean it up. Careful you don’t get a shock or catch your fingers.
The second thing was it acted like the weld polarity was reversed. If you were running 7018, that explains the poor puddle wet out and the excess BB’s. You might be right that at some point the rotation was reversed, maybe when the machine was moved to its current location. That would definitely reverse the DC polarity.
That old machine is basically no different from the Idealarc machines that were in fabrication shops and shipyards in the 50’s and 50’s. Those old welder generators were built to last forever. That’s why there are so many SA200 pipeline welders still running. Same DC exciter, and DC welding generator. I like your old machine shop. It all still works, you can’t beat that!
Really commonly wound DC Generator Welder. Differentially compounded. Your explanation was pretty much bang on. Produces lots of voltage to penetrate and then limit voltage and thereby current. Really nice old machine!
Thanks for the explanation at the end. I always wondered how these things achieved such a nice stable current without any electronics at all.
Good video. It is amazing how well this welder was built 100 years ago. Especially the wire insulation. I did notice that your shop may need a bit of minor roof repair-the roof tin flapping in the background at one point in the video.
Howard Hughes tried to spend the fortune his father made with the bit. Funny thing is, the harder he tried, and the more outlandish things he got into, the bigger the fortune got. Hughes Aircraft made money, his Hollywood studios made money, almost everything he touched seemed to be profitable.
I’m pretty certain the small field coils that the output from the main DC generator runs through are called interpole windings.
I work on diesel electric locomotives and the DC traction motors have something very similar.
Thanks I believe you are correct.
Neat it took off an ran without any dramas after sitting all that time, no mice chewing up any cloth cables buried in the chassis. Funny enough you bringing up Hughes, I live exactly 3 blocks from the original Hughes Tool Co building which is now a protected site (can't be bought and made into condos like every other old warehouse in this neighborhood). Across the same street and and about two blocks west of it sits the original Baker-Hughes site from about 1922 unused aand vacant since hurricane Ike in 2008, and I'm not sure what its status is but the original bank and its vault is still there. I can take snap some pix and put them up somewhere if you like
pictures would be great!
@@dannywilsher4165 you bet. I'll take some this week and figure out where to put up a public album. Suggestions for that would be great
@@Drmcclung I don't recall a public place for albums. A search would probably bring up something. If you are unsuccessful in finding something, let me know and I will be glad to try and find one. Thanks!!!!!
@@dannywilsher4165 thinking it might be easier to just make a public video all the same. I'll work on it sometime this week, the weather is supposed to clear up.. I'm leaning towards video since we're all on UA-cam anyway
@@Drmcclung Sounds like a good plan. I live in Houston, sounds like you might also?
This channel especially the machine shop videos are indeed very interesting. I cannot get enough of the history and the information. I wish there were more channels that were like this.
Great video, i really love old machines
1. you are describing arc blow, ( dances around) that is a arc reacting to magnetic field from DC arc welding electric flow.
2. the rod that machine was made for ( and tuned) was AWS e6010, DC cellulose rod, not any fancy drag rod,
and E6010 will give you penetration, ( it’s all position !)
but,you might have to practice with it a bit,
and to counter arc blow, check a lincoln handbook on DC arc welding ( it’s all the same) over the years, and another source is the AWS welding handbook ( free pdf downloads)
hint 3 keep your ground path clean and free from resistance, ( smooth dc arc results)
and have fun, ( welding is fun, and skilled welding is more fun) and 6010 for dc and 6011 for ac will build skills.
reverse polarity is simply done by reversing leads on the big knife switch on the main control panel, also the original operation was two man, the welder and his safety man ( we would often call him the fire man, because he would pull the main leads switch when the welder set himself on fire (and throw a bucket of water on him or the work area) surprisingly, that was a real thing.
Old machines are the absolute best!
Just a couple of comments.. That shed is just so full of dust and rust, it most likely hasn't been used for over thirty years. Also don't weld with an aerosol anywhere near the table, one spark will go through that and cause an explosion. Same thing with Batteries and Rags, take them well away from the spark drop area.
That beats my 1971 Sears mini fridge stick welder with the broken dial handle. I like it.
I just noticed the rafters of that machine shop are made of old pipe 🤣
Good stuff. Funny the other day I look up Howard Hughes Sr. on how his company patent the rotary bits and lease them to drillers. His son Howard Hughes Jr inherited the company after his dads death at the age of 19. Jr had to be emancipated because the age of majority was still 21 to legally inherite the company.
Thanks for the show Zach 🍻 🇦🇺
Bud you don’t have to explain yourself every thing you do is interesting and you experience in it is explanation enough. Keep up the good work
Awesome work by Lincoln! Thanks for going over how it works too!
Pretty cool piece of equipment. Great in-depth describing of its operating characteristics.
Thank you sir.
“Ole Sparky” comes to mind! Great video Boss.
Ten thousand thumbs up! I like the history aspect of your content. I have never been around oil fields in my 69 years. Keep going and I’ll keep watching!
I’m looking for the information on this welder Lincoln list of serial numbers on line only goes back to 1932. That is A15970, the first two digits indicate the year. This would allow us to extrapolate that your machine is 9 years older or a 1923 model.
Excellent info. I bet money this is correct.
amazing i did not expect this to run
Awesome old Lincoln welder
Like another commenter said I’ll watch anything you upload.. thanks for sharing another one Zach!
My great grandfather got caught rebuilding Hughes bits a time or two.
Slate electrical panels were really common but I bet most of them ended their lifes as rubble. I never was able to find what that black coating was, because it seems to be the same product on all of them.
I wonder if anyone lost their radio reception? If your hair starts standing up, let go. Great video!
We had a couple old rotary welders in the last shop we leased, they scared me so I never messed with them. I have in my dealings acquired an old lincwelder 225, the onan engine needs rebuilt, that I can do, the generator seems to work but I’ve heard good things about these welders. One thing Lincoln did well was built a welder that could survive the apocalypse.
I would really like one of those old AC generator welders! 😍😍 I’ve always heard you can’t beat the steady arc it puts out
❤buenas maquinas,no las de ahora que no sirven
If that welder was set up for hardfacing, it was likely set up as DCEN. That gives higher filler deposition and lower penetration. Certain eletrodes will run both polarities,but for normal structural welding you want to run it as DCEP.
Neat old welder, nothing like the old straight DC machines. I almost bought a Ranger until I came across the '66 SA200 I have now. Lincoln's serial number chart goes back to 1932 with A15970 being the last code number. Seeing how the codes in the chart descend, I'd guess your machine was made around 1924.
Awesome to see you keeping the old and best equipment going. They definitely don't make the best of anything anymore. Stay safe my friend.
Very cool! I'm surprised it is DC output. If it is in fact that. I had an old 1960s Craftsman AC stick welder left behind in the shop I now have. It was a lot of fun getting it up and running. Mines got a rack of plugs to plug into to change the amperage, no dial. Best of luck with all that stuff! Fun projects!
Its DC. The commutator mechanically switches (rectifies) the output. If it was AC it would have slip rings.
Is yours the 1923? 200 amp? I have the same one if so.
It is always a pleasure to see old things brought to life and explained well. Zach, I love your passion and willingness to share. So much enjoyment in such a short little video. Awesome!!
Thanks for watching
Again great respect for your knowledge and skills!
Greetings from the Netherlands!
Howdy lol. Thanks.
Random is better. I used to weld with a slightly newer Lincoln motor generator. The one I used did not have those cool Frankenstein knife switches. I love it! Cheers
Thats a nice old rig never saw anything like that before
I really like the shop it's come a long ways from that first video hard to believe it's looking so good and man that welder sounds like it could run some rods
Thanks Zack your videos remind me of my younger days growing up and working in the old Texaco fields around West Columbia and Damon. Keep it up!
@nisdotha did you spend any time in Thompsons
Can you imagine the cost of that welder 😳. How technology has moved on, what a good museum piece
The series coils on the field frame are called interpoles.
With a channel name like that I’ll take your word lol. Thanks.
Super cool, thanks for the great video.
7:50 thank you for cleaning - first thing I do with something like that is clean the raturds flyshit and cobwebs - that settled my anxiety
I have a Hobart somewhat like that .24 volt dc 200 amp to leads.110 volt end is very unstable .prolly worked for lights or something like that.
Cool old welder, shop looks better all the time.
That control panel looks like it came right out of Dr. Frankensteins lab , LOL , very cool old welder !
Look up Kenneth Strickfaden.
Need to buy a commutator cleaning stone to clean the carbon buildup off the commutator bars. Taking a soft pointed tool like a plastic toothpick and clean out the brush material and other foreign material out of the grooves between each commutator where the Mica insulation separates each bar. Be careful and take your time not to damage the Mica as the oder the machine the more brittle the Mica is likely to be. This will solve unstable arc problems. Lastly try reversing your polarity as some rods can be picky as to which way current flows.
Now thats a cool welder. Like most old things, takes a bit of use to "clean" itself up.
some really cool stuf
That's a cool machine! How did you figure out it's workings??
Thats freaking awesome 😮
A 1920s motor/generator that still works. Pretty amazing. Parts availability will probably be a problem. I guarantee you will never find a modern welding machine that will last anywhere close to 100 years.
Gotta say that good inverters would last another 100 years easily. Only the caps might fail, and bushings in the fan. But I don't call their fault as fault of whole welder, since they're really easy to replace.