My new ancient forney welder

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My uncle had this welder sitting in his shop and wanted to just get rid of it. If I hadn't shown interest he would have scrapped it for copper. It is a forney model C-6. 180 amps, AC. I was suprised to see that the ducy cycle is only 20% at full power (says on the back). Has a place for a  battery charger attachment (rectifier) and a plug for an old-fashioned soldering iron (the huge kind). It also has a 115V tap that goes to an outlet on the front.To change the amps, the cable is moved from one socket to another. I plan to take the lugs off of the end of my #2 welding cables (currently attached to my generator welder, seen in the background of the first pic), and put some of those plugs on the end. Then I'll make some little adaptors that bolt onto the generator and have a female socket on them, so that I can switch from one welder to the other fairly easily.http://i43.tinypic.com/v4v0is.jpghttp://i39.tinypic.com/n5lfgk.jpghttp://i41.tinypic.com/29wsgab.jpghttp://i43.tinypic.com/24cxeo1.jpghttp://i42.tinypic.com/16i5rgp.jpg Originally Posted by SundownIIISometimes it's better to remain silent and be thought the fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Reply:They are good old welders and pretty much bullet proof. I had one some what similar. I opened it up and took an air hose to the inside of it and blew the spider webs and dust out of it, then used small brush for cleaning inside of the sockets. Always worked like a charm for me. One note though I was always happy burning 6013 & 7014 welding rod with it, but it did not perform to well with 6011 and when trying 7018 it was not satisfactory at all. Almost acted like it didn't have any power when trying to weld with the 7018. If you do a search on here some others have had pretty much the same results.