Repair to Lincoln welder
Alan
some of you truck gurus have quite a bit of welding experience and may have
used or repaired this model welder.
I'm looking at buying a Portable Lincoln welder, it has a 3 cylinder diesel
engine (perkins I think), it runs great and is an older unit, mid to late
80's. It has 4-6 110 plugins and a couple of 220 plug ins. When trying to
weld it doesn't arc, the guy said he had someone look at it and it would
cost about 185.00 to fix. He tested the armature and said it was good. I
think this welder is a steal at 500.00, any ideas on what could be the
welding problem. One of the guys workers said the repair man said it could
be something simple so the 185.00 may have been a labor cost. Something was
mentioned about taking off a panel and just resetting something.
Thanks...
Alan
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Bill Funk
> Sorry for the off topic post, having trouble getting help on this. I know
> some of you truck gurus have quite a bit of welding experience and may have
> used or repaired this model welder.
>
> I'm looking at buying a Portable Lincoln welder, it has a 3 cylinder diesel
> engine (perkins I think), it runs great and is an older unit, mid to late
> 80's. It has 4-6 110 plugins and a couple of 220 plug ins. When trying to
> weld it doesn't arc, the guy said he had someone look at it and it would
> cost about 185.00 to fix. He tested the armature and said it was good. I
> think this welder is a steal at 500.00, any ideas on what could be the
> welding problem. One of the guys workers said the repair man said it could
> be something simple so the 185.00 may have been a labor cost. Something was
> mentioned about taking off a panel and just resetting something.
>
> Thanks...
> Alan
Personally, I've always looked at situations like this in thiss way:
If that's all it will take to fix it, then *yiu* do it, and if it actually does
the trick, and everything else is as you say, I'll pay the current asking price
PLUS the fix price (in this case, the $185).
Usually, the offer is not accepted. (I wonder why?)
This also goes for those wonderful bargains on cars that don't run, but only
need a tune-up. Yeah, right. If all it needed was a tune-up to put it in
running condition, that would be a cheap way to turn a piece of crap into a
cream-puff!
Bill
jetski junkies
they buy the part plus give you your money back.
Perry
WARREN692
range.
Bill Funk
> Buy it pay to have it fixed. A new welder like that is in the 5-6000 dollar
> range.
That may be what a *new* one is worth.
What's the value of one that doesn't work?
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