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A little off topic but here’s a 1969 Lincoln SA 200 engine drive welder
These machines have a huge following and are very popular with pipe welders
They are rugged and run forever
I believe they are one of Lincoln’s most sold welders
They generate DC only and this model is one of the more desirables as it has all copper windings
I ran one years ago and I traded for this one just to have and do a partial restoration
The trailer is junk and I cut it up but the axel and wheels were good
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Forgot to add, when my wife found out she asked what was I going to do with it when I finished working on it......Told her I didnt have a clue, to which she shook her head ....Women they just don't understand
 
My favorite welder, I pulled one of those for dang near 20 years in the petro/chemical plants and a crapload of others.
 
Very cool They are extremely dependable machines. They still make the classic series but have added too many electronics to it.
Here are some ideas for you
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Steve welder said:
Forgot to add, when my wife found out she asked what was I going to do with it when I finished working on it......Told her I didnt have a clue, to which she shook her head ....Women they just don't understand
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I would have told my wife to weld her mouth and wallet shut. But I'm a professional smart ***, so she would know that was coming.
 
My very talented friend was going broke during the housing bubble burst. He is a cabinet maker. North Dakota was booming with oil. He took some college courses and certified to be a pipe welder. He bought a new Miller welder and loaded up his flatbed 2500 Chevy and headed East.
A little bit later he showed up back home with his tail between his legs. They shamed him because his flatbed was not self built, his truck was not a 3500 and his welder was not Lincoln.
This only fueled his testosterone. He bought a Lincoln welder, built a badass flatbed and we shaved off his 2500 emblems and he headed east again and made a killing.
Today is quite the opposite and his mill work is making him a killing and the oil boom is not in North Dakota any more,
 
Bodyperson said:
My very talented friend was going broke during the housing bubble burst. He is a cabinet maker. North Dakota was booming with oil. He took some college courses and certified to be a pipe welder. He bought a new Miller welder and loaded up his flatbed 2500 Chevy and headed East.
A little bit later he showed up back home with his tail between his legs. They shamed him because his flatbed was not self built, his truck was not a 3500 and his welder was not Lincoln.
This only fueled his testosterone. He bought a Lincoln welder, built a badass flatbed and we shaved off his 2500 emblems and he headed east again and made a killing.
Today is quite the opposite and his mill work is making him a killing and the oil boom is not in North Dakota any more,
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Ive heard stories like that.
Your pal is talented big time
A 2500 which as far as I know is a 3/4 ton, if its single tire its a little light for a water cooled engine drive welder, especially considering the weight of tools, bottles and such.
A lot of down hand pipeline welders like Lincolns or so im told. I preferred Lincoln as it picked up RPM in a split second when you first struck a arc.
We never were allowed or certified to do down hand, we were welding hi pres and it was always up hand. So I did prefer the pure DC that Lincoln offered but I did pipe that passed a x ray with a air cooled 2 cylinder Miller
Those pipeline guys are unique breed and very good at what they do
From the U tube video's ive seen they don't even do their own grinding or set up of pipe ......We did it all from rigging to fitting to welding but again those guys know their stuff and are particular about what welder they use.
 
I have a 73, owned for 32 years, use it for plan C.
Bought a new 300 classic G in 97, wore it out, needs rebuilt.
Bought a new trailblazer 325 fi. Wic. and a Arc reach to boot, getting too old to be running back and forth to adjust the machine, especially in a high rise.
Have passed UT and Xray with it also. But it`s modern over tech. ****. Love Hate relationship.
I`ll keep my old SA-200, it will still be running when that new miller ***** itself.
 
mopar head said:
I have a 73, owned for 32 years, use it for plan C.
Bought a new 300 classic G in 97, wore it out, needs rebuilt.
Bought a new trailblazer 325 fi. Wic. and a Arc reach to boot, getting too old to be running back and forth to adjust the machine, especially in a high rise.
Have passed UT and Xray with it also. But it`s modern over tech. ****. Love Hate relationship.
I`ll keep my old SA-200, it will still be running when that new miller ***** itself.
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The gantry crane I made which you recently mentioned in another forum is really only to lift the SA 200 out of my truck so I can get it up and running in my garage.
I needed something fast and strong and I had this 4x4 tubing laying around
I rebuilt the mag and replaced the coil which was bad, rebuilt the carb and decided to replace the generator with a alternator. I tried to buy a replacement fuel tank but they were a little to expensive so I resealed and coated the old one
A few other odds and ends and as soon as I get it home I will start working again on it .
Maybe after that since I have a good axel/springs and wheels from the original trailer, I will fab a new one.
What I do with this machine once im done with it is anyones guess but hopefully someone looking for a excellent stick machine will latch on to it.
BTW do you recall the older Miller AE AD 2cylinder air cooled machines with the Onan flat head?
They were excellent running machines, I did a few X ray steam joints with that machine, they welded great.
I eventually went with something bigger as I was doing more and more of heavy machinery, buckets and such
It would run 5/32 low hy but I was beating it up. The next machine ran that wire all day no sweat plus now I was able to run 3/16.
 
Here's my "funny" welder story. Decades ago I worked in a local, large, parts store. We had a separate welding store, sold Miller, bottles, repairs, etc. Someone had brought in an engine driven Miller they had bought at an auction, and it had come from one of the deep rock mines, flooded. They had rebuilt the engine, cleaned it up, looked great and ran good. But it would not weld and sounded as if it was loading the engine with certain switch settings. this was not a DC generator like yours, this was a 3 phase alternator, using 6 huge diodes, an oversized car alternator.

The "mechanic" wanted me to help him, he could not figure it out. We ended up pulling all the diodes and I had a big load bank to test alternators. I tested the diodes under load. BUT I HAD NOT NOTICED an important point. Yeh, they all tested good, all right..................Turns out that 4 of them were one polarity, and two were opposite---they are supposed to be 3 and 3!!!! Someone had replaced one and got the wrong polarity diode!!!
 
I always find it interesting that you can always tell a welder that has used an engine driven welder. They'll always tap the work with the electrode first before they start welding. Regardless of what they are using. It's a reflex action.
 
6PakBee said:
I always find it interesting that you can always tell a welder that has used an engine driven welder. They'll always tap the work with the electrode first before they start welding. Regardless of what they are using. It's a reflex action.
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I tap the work to make sure I have a ground. Same with a electric machine
In the power house it wasn't necessary. Mostly we used grid type machines which had one central ground, meaning the entire boiler/ piping/ structural was grounded
 
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