Its alive!!! 1943 Hobart gasoline welder...update
Gunner Asch
http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915299718135618
http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915280034888082
http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasolineWelder#5454915264015202514
http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915330663814994
http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915326046218002
Now Ive got to get a good battery, clean up all the wiring
(carefully..its 70 yrs old), repaint etc etc...<G>
I LIKE this welder. I burned probably a pound of rod today farting
around, overhead, vertical up, down, sideways etc etc....marvelous what
this machine can do. Its got a far cleaner and easier arc to work with
than any of my other stick welders, Ranger 9, ArcoDialarc 250 etc etc.
Muahahahaha!!!
Now if I ever get the Miller 55G back from the guy who is slowly
rebuilding it.....
Gunner
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Jim Chandler
wrote:
Congrats! Is that the one with the stuck piston, or some such? The
one you couldn't turn over?
Jim
Gunner Asch
The one with the stuck piston? That is the Miller 55g
http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/Miller55G#
A buddy has it and offered to rebuild it for me because Ive done a
number of favors for him over the years. He runs an engine machining
service, Blanchard grinders, valve grinding etc etc. He is
slowly..getting around to doing it. His shop is pretty small and with
the rain we had this winter, he put it in storage, but now that the
rainy season is almost over, he will bring it back out and set it up in
his shops outside workspace.
This old girl (Hobart)was given to me by a buddy who sold out his
operation in California and moved to Idaho. It came off his ranch about
12 yrs ago, and has sat quietly moldering in the corner of his yard
since then.
Ignoramus30291
i
GeoLane at PTD dot NET
wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:32:56 -0700, Jim Chandler <n4...@gte.net> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:55:27 -0700, Gunner Asch <gunne...@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#
I also enjoyed looking at the shop pix. Looks like you have a 20"
Rockwell step pulley drill press like mine. Mine's noisy when you
lower the spindle about half way. Must be some bad bearings. I still
haven't gotten around to tracking that down.
RWL
Larry Jaques
<gunne...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#
>
>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915299718135618
>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915280034888082
Nada.
>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasolineWelder#5454915264015202514
Ah, the pics! What's with the bubblegum in pic 5? Are your arms all
UVed tonight? I saw bare armed welding in there. <tsk tsk tsk>
Hey! What's that _green_ stuff in front of your house? It wasn't
there in July. ;)
>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915330663814994
>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915326046218002
Zero pics, dude.
>Now Ive got to get a good battery, clean up all the wiring
>(carefully..its 70 yrs old), repaint etc etc...<G>
>
>I LIKE this welder. I burned probably a pound of rod today farting
>around, overhead, vertical up, down, sideways etc etc....marvelous what
>this machine can do. Its got a far cleaner and easier arc to work with
>than any of my other stick welders, Ranger 9, ArcoDialarc 250 etc etc.
>
>Muahahahaha!!!
Congrats.
>Now if I ever get the Miller 55G back from the guy who is slowly
>rebuilding it.....
You'll what, use it or sell it?
--
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And if he doesn't turn their hearts,
may he turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.
--old Gaelic blessing
Gunner Asch
<lja...@diversify.invalid> wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:55:27 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch
><gunne...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>
>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#
>>
>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915299718135618
>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915280034888082
>
>Nada.
>
>
>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasolineWelder#5454915264015202514
>
>Ah, the pics! What's with the bubblegum in pic 5? Are your arms all
>UVed tonight? I saw bare armed welding in there. <tsk tsk tsk>
>Hey! What's that _green_ stuff in front of your house? It wasn't
>there in July. ;)
Thats rather odd. I had two sections with the Hobart welder pics. One
of them seems to have flown the coop.
As for the green stuff...thats what we have in winter time.. In summer
time..it all dies and stays brown until late fall. Of course..that
105-115F tends to have something to do with it. One can..can run
sprinklers at night..but the soil here is poor..tends towards sandy clay
here in the high desert....so I irrigate the grapes, the trees and let
the spring grass die out in the cactus gardens.
In the picture from the back of the welder..one can see my old black
Mazda/Ranger and one of the Wells-Cargo containers in my side lot..and
Im going to have to attack it with the weed wacker this weekend..its
grown about 2' tall and in just a couple months..it will be 24" of
FLAMMABLE dead and dried grass.. The orange boat is my 85 AMF Force 5
sail boat. Ive got a Hobie 16 tucked away in the side yard and the 22'
Ensenada is out at a friends ranch.
>
>
>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915330663814994
>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915326046218002
>
>
>Zero pics, dude.
>
>
>>Now Ive got to get a good battery, clean up all the wiring
>>(carefully..its 70 yrs old), repaint etc etc...<G>
>>
>>I LIKE this welder. I burned probably a pound of rod today farting
>>around, overhead, vertical up, down, sideways etc etc....marvelous what
>>this machine can do. Its got a far cleaner and easier arc to work with
>>than any of my other stick welders, Ranger 9, ArcoDialarc 250 etc etc.
>>
>>Muahahahaha!!!
>
>Congrats.
>
>
>>Now if I ever get the Miller 55G back from the guy who is slowly
>>rebuilding it.....
>
>You'll what, use it or sell it?
I dont know yet. Ive got 3 gasoline powered welders now...the Miller is
being rebuilt..but it and the Ranger 9 are MIG compatable...though Ive
got a Cobra "Brute" wire feeder I could stick on any of the three. Water
cooled mig feederr..with a 400 amp torch...<G> Been using it for
Aluminum on one of the old Miller35s Ive got in the welding shop.
The old Hobart so far has cost me $69. $60 for a pair of 16" used
tires, mounted and $9 for gasoline...oh...and $1.50 for the car wash
Hell..I could donate it to the oil museum
http://www.westkern-oilmuseum.org/
And visit it every day..pull it in the Oildorado parades this year with
one of the Dart or White trucks they have restored<G>
Though to be fair..this welder was said to have come off a Liberty ship
and was made before 1945 according to Hobart
http://lariverrailroads.com/oil_trucks.html
Gota love it!
Larry Jaques
<gunne...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:11:07 -0700, Larry Jaques
><lja...@diversify.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:55:27 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch
>><gunne...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>>
>>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#
>>>
>>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915299718135618
>>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasWelder#5454915280034888082
>>
>>Nada.
>>
>>
>>>http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch/HobartGasolineWelder#5454915264015202514
>>
>>Ah, the pics! What's with the bubblegum in pic 5? Are your arms all
>>UVed tonight? I saw bare armed welding in there. <tsk tsk tsk>
>>Hey! What's that _green_ stuff in front of your house? It wasn't
>>there in July. ;)
>
>Thats rather odd. I had two sections with the Hobart welder pics. One
>of them seems to have flown the coop.
I thought that maybe you'd just futzed the link.
>As for the green stuff...thats what we have in winter time.. In summer
>time..it all dies and stays brown until late fall. Of course..that
>105-115F tends to have something to do with it. One can..can run
>sprinklers at night..but the soil here is poor..tends towards sandy clay
>here in the high desert....so I irrigate the grapes, the trees and let
>the spring grass die out in the cactus gardens.
Figgered as much.
>In the picture from the back of the welder..one can see my old black
>Mazda/Ranger and one of the Wells-Cargo containers in my side lot..and
>Im going to have to attack it with the weed wacker this weekend..its
>grown about 2' tall and in just a couple months..it will be 24" of
>FLAMMABLE dead and dried grass..
Yeah, you definitely don't want that.
>The orange boat is my 85 AMF Force 5
>sail boat. Ive got a Hobie 16 tucked away in the side yard and the 22'
>Ensenada is out at a friends ranch.
When's the last time you went sailing in one?
>>You'll what, use it or sell it?
>
>I dont know yet. Ive got 3 gasoline powered welders now...the Miller is
>being rebuilt..but it and the Ranger 9 are MIG compatable...though Ive
>got a Cobra "Brute" wire feeder I could stick on any of the three. Water
>cooled mig feederr..with a 400 amp torch...<G> Been using it for
>Aluminum on one of the old Miller35s Ive got in the welding shop.
Braggart. ;)
>The old Hobart so far has cost me $69. $60 for a pair of 16" used
>tires, mounted and $9 for gasoline...oh...and $1.50 for the car wash
>
>Hell..I could donate it to the oil museum
>http://www.westkern-oilmuseum.org/
>
>And visit it every day..pull it in the Oildorado parades this year with
>one of the Dart or White trucks they have restored<G>
>
>Though to be fair..this welder was said to have come off a Liberty ship
>and was made before 1945 according to Hobart
>
>http://lariverrailroads.com/oil_trucks.html
>
>Gota love it!
Cool.
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