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Discussion in 'Garage / Workshop' started by six5crèéd, Jun 5, 2020.

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  1. Aug 3, 2021 at 4:39 AM
    BananaMan

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    That's what we're in the process of as I type. Pictures and chatting about it to come!
     
  2. Aug 3, 2021 at 5:36 AM
    RustyGreen

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    Years ago working night shift a boss came to me, someone had told him I could weld -- yeah, right.

    I taught :laugh: myself with a 120 volt stick job that looked like (and worked as well as) a battery charger.

    Naturally (being young, dumb and wanting to impress the boss) I said "sure!" BTW: I was just a worker, there was a shift "Mechanic" but he couldn't weld.

    Down in the Utilities shop I am faced with the same Migmaster 250 in your picture. There was no youtube back then and I had only read about Mig welders, never actually seen one. I turned the gas on (knew that much) and went to it - the machine was set on medium 5.
    I welded the bracket and took it to the boss, he was pleased and I became his welding guy. :boom:Since I only had a hazy understanding of how the machine worked, every time I set it to medium 5 (didn't claim to be swift). Eventually I graduated to a Mechanic position and did more welding, one day someone had left a birds nest of wire in the feed, I open the cover to investigate:
    :annoyed:there is a chart with the settings under the cover :annoyed:...

     
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    Reading your post, I looked back at his photo to see the welder. I just now realized that, not only does ESAB make a welder; but, I have never seen an ESAB welder before.
     
  5. Aug 3, 2021 at 6:17 AM
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    How common they are probably depends on what the local distributors carry, very popular around here.

    ESAB is a world wide company, that Migmaster or the same machine branded as L-TEC is (maybe was) the Ford F-250 of factory shop welders. The machine I was referring to was purchased in the late 80's.

    My last job we had the same machine, purchased in the late 90's. Great machine, maybe I will score one at an auction some day.
     
  6. Aug 3, 2021 at 6:28 AM
    My Name is Rahl

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    Right. As part of my job at Fastenal, I purchase weld wire from ESAB for a customer of ours. I figured it was a private labeled welder made by someone else; I had just never seen an ESAB welder before or knew they offered them. I have worked in weld shops before and have only ever seen Miller or Lincoln welders.
     
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    wilcam47

    wilcam47 Keep on keeping on!

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    Boss: wth???
     
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    That's fugly!
     
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    Morning all!

    we have one of those ESABs at our shop, it’s disliked among our welding crew. I heard the high frequency start for stainless wasn’t very smooth. It sits in a corner for the most part.
     
  11. Aug 3, 2021 at 7:38 AM
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    Update on the tank situation. Our vendors were able to source replacement pumps, but they're two days out. The exact pump from the original company is a 16-20 week lead time, so that's definitely not happening. Flushed the old pumps, put new filters on and new fluid in the tank. About to put it back together and hope for the best for the next two days. CB49B619-9F76-47B4-9002-11D19C0DC395.jpgBAA76113-D22D-4C5B-8E52-A09BC492ADF7.jpgBD13C42D-7507-4C22-8524-5DFA5506B1E2.jpg
     
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    tacotoe

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    Looks like the filters were doing their job, and beyond. I think those pumps will still be ok but surely not like new.
    :fingerscrossed:
    Good share and keeping this going. I've a real simple machining set up about to go so I'll throw that up shortly.
     
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    Well, the entire reason we pulled this out was because this hydraulic unit powers some feed roll cylinders on one of our sawing machines. One set of cylinders was acting very laggy and slow. One of the two pumps attached to this motor sounded like marbles in a blender when activated, but it's been sounding that way for months supposedly (before I started at this location). We swapped valves, replaced cylinders, tried everything without having to pull this apart. Finally the only thing left is the pump, so here we are. And when I pulled those filters off, the smell of burnt hydraulic filled the shop.

    I guess the point of that explanation, is that the pumps are toast, but not fully cooked yet.
     
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    Someone needs to update the PM routines!
     
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    According to the site supervisor, this hasn't been apart since he's been here. (Nearly 5 years) and this unit runs 10 hours a day five days a week.
     
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    More like toast, but not yet fully cremated.
    If it was run while sounding like marbles for that long of a time good luck.
     
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    tacotoe

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    Here's a cover that needs modification done. Basically just machining off two of the inside lips off for ease of installation. Most of them throughout the panthave been done already. I bet haven't had to do one in 10 years. Valve Team guy said this was a spare that hadn't been done and sitting for a long time. 20210803_101011.jpg
     
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    I hope no one in management had the spheres to act surprised or upset by the failure.
     
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    It's a bit frustrating that I said "hey, it's probably the pump." On day one, but the supervisors insisted on trying every valve/cylinder combination and going over diagrams and schematics for three days before finally saying "we're pretty sure it's the pump."

    At least we finally agreed on that decision and got it out and figured out. At the end of the day I've done my job, done what I was told, and got praise for doing exactly that.
     

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