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RE: Novice TIG Welder Questions

To: mporter@zianet.com, shiples@home.com
Subject: RE: Novice TIG Welder Questions
From: jmark.vanscoter@amd.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:17:10 -0600
Michael asked: All that said, anyone need an 800 lb. 300A Harnischfeger P&H
3-phase
job-shop DC TIG machine with built-in solenoids and high-frequency
generator? I used it for years until the company for which I worked went
bust and I inherited the welder.... Have been hauling it around for ten
years and have never had 3-phase power available to run it. A real
beast. When I called the company that bought out the factory, a few
years ago, to ask them about any means of converting it to single-phase,
even with lower output, they said, "nope, don't know of any way to do
it, but, hey, they're a real workhorse, aren't they? They stopped
building them in 1954, and we're still using them on the production
floor to build new welders."

The thing belongs in a museum somewhere, I think, as a testament to what
American engineering and production once could do.

Michael-

I ran a big industrial three phase Miller welder in my shop using a rotary
phase converter. The good ones put out power that has characteristics that
work fine in welders (at least it did for me!)

Otherwise, I'll take the P&H welder off your hands!

Mark V.S. in Austin, TX

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