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Well, I finally found an AC225-S for a good price. Paint was cruddy, leads were OK, and Power cord was spliced and wire-nutted together about 3 feet from the machine, but I'm going to restore it. I cut my teeth on one back in the Mid-70's when I was 12. My dad owned his own Auto garage and they did all their own welding. I showed an interest. He showed me the basics, tossed some scraps of metal to me and said to try it out. 2 weeks later, he was cutting the wrought Iron for the stair railings on the front and back porches of the house, and had me welding them together. Haven't touched one since the Mid 80's and have been keeping my eye out. Looks like the range switch was turned while welding, as a couple contacts are completely wasted. Ordered a new range selector and main power switch, and a 20 foot 6/3 power cable with a molded on Nema 6-50P.Labeled the transformer taps and cut the lugs off the old switch to make it easier to get the cables out of the lugs. Also going to strip and prep the metal parts and completely repaint everything.Have 50ft of 1/0 welding cable and all the crimp on lugs and a crimp tool for them coming as well. New 400A electrode holder and work clamp as well.Fan is perfect, no loose bushings and actually not as loud as I remember!Code on the front plate is 7533-703 I am assuming March of 1977? Date on the wiring diagram inside is 3-12-1976One major question I have is what type of solder should be used on the Taps at the selector switch. I have non corrosive flux core silver solder I used to build a ham antenna from Copper pipe, and I have smaller electronic solder around for my "normal sized" projects.Thanks!Not sure why the images are rotated... They are normal on my end. I rotated them 90 degrees and it didn't change on this end...
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Reply:Great project, those are nice machines. You went plenty heavy on leads and stinger. If you ever upgrade to a bigger welder you can use them there. Like its big brother
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发表于 2021-9-7 08:24:19