I got a new welding toy.

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  • rightpedal
    Superhero BangShifter
    • Jun 2008
    • 1258

    #1

    I got a new welding toy.

    Picked this up last week....Well rolled it up in the van. Paid about a buck a pound for it!



    It is a Lincoln 250/250 tig. The arc works great. The tig torch is not hooked up. It came with about 100 ft of #2 cable, the foot controller, and a ck 300 amp water cooled torch. I am cobbling together the odds and ends pieces to hook up tap water to the torch and adapt my gas bottle.

    The guy I got it from was consolidating his dads collection of tools. There were about 8 welders in the shop a couple of arcs, some migs, an old lincoln 300 tig and a really nice miller 350 sincro. So the my dad bought it and it sat under some crap for years story sounds about right.

    The way I figure it was a mediocre deal if only the arc works and a smokin good deal if I can get the tig working.

    Any thoughts or suggestions.

    Steve
    Well I have stopped buying stuff for cars I don't own. Is that a step in the right or wrong direction?
  • 1931s/x
    Hero BangShifter
    • Mar 2008
    • 276

    #2
    the old tigs are nice. i had a miller 330 a/b for a few years in my garage, got it for 300 with a lot of new lead stinger and ground, and a tig torch setup for tap water. it just took up too much space in my little garage and i sold it and bought an inverter.

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    • SuperBuickGuy
      No Life Outside BangShift.com
      • Jan 2008
      • 31924

      #3
      That's a good deal

      I bought a dialarc 250 (Miller) at auction a few months ago... 50 cents a pound It didn't look used, and it works excellent. However, I didn't get a pedal with it (had one sitting about like everyone else does) rebuilt it and plugged it in.... might have 75 cents a pound in it now
      Last edited by SuperBuickGuy; December 17, 2011, 05:55 PM.
      Doing it all wrong since 1966

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      • oldsman71
        Superhero BangShifter
        • Jun 2008
        • 3246

        #4
        cool deal !!
        COBEY..... franklin, kansas

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        • DanStokes
          Ancient LSR Guy
          • Oct 2007
          • 28345

          #5
          How much more was it with an operator? Cool deal but with my crappy vision MIG is about all I can handle anymore. But now I know where to send my aluminum that needs welding!

          Hi to you and The Bride and Happy Holidays!

          Dan

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          • rightpedal
            Superhero BangShifter
            • Jun 2008
            • 1258

            #6
            Tig is easy Dan. fire the arc, establish a puddle, dip rod, dip tungsten, stop weld, grind tungsten.... repeat.
            Well I have stopped buying stuff for cars I don't own. Is that a step in the right or wrong direction?

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