Ok.. So I’m new here.. new to welding and well... anything associated with it.. I’ve welded once before with a cheapie stick welder about 10 years ago. But, a week ago I picked up a very worn and tired looking Millermatic 200 (s/n: JB513632) from I’m assuming perhaps 1981.. It’s one of the ones with the white front panel..
It’s in pretty rough shape — there was one screw holding the sheet metal housing on, no handle or anything. The power cord has been cut off at the connector end, both of the Hi/Low volt plugs are in need of replacement and the short cable that plugs into the Hi/Low power connector needs replacement. The gun needs some TLC and I don’t know what else. The guy I bought it from had acquired it from another person and had never tried doing anything with it. I believe if I can get the high/low insulators replaced, the power cord fixed and maybe a few other things this is likely to work fine even if it is not a beauty queen (or king)...
I popped into a local welding shop near my home but they don’t carry any parts for a machine that old unfortunately. If you know of a place to buy some of these things, please clue me in.. I don’t know if Miller still carries parts for a machine that’s probably 40 years old. I gather the wire feed motor (or controller?) isn’t available anymore but like I said I have no idea what state things are in. I’ll be hopefully starting to do some initial cleaning in the next week or so after I finish another project and will blow out the cobwebs and dirt that I saw inside and take additional pictures to post here for someones amusement..
I don’t have but a few photos at the moment.. I’ll post more in the next day or two..
If you have any thoughts on starting this rehab, I’m all ears. I’ll tackle some of the easy stuff and I’ve got NO desire to plug this thing in until I can verify the general state of the machine first.
It’s in pretty rough shape — there was one screw holding the sheet metal housing on, no handle or anything. The power cord has been cut off at the connector end, both of the Hi/Low volt plugs are in need of replacement and the short cable that plugs into the Hi/Low power connector needs replacement. The gun needs some TLC and I don’t know what else. The guy I bought it from had acquired it from another person and had never tried doing anything with it. I believe if I can get the high/low insulators replaced, the power cord fixed and maybe a few other things this is likely to work fine even if it is not a beauty queen (or king)...
I popped into a local welding shop near my home but they don’t carry any parts for a machine that old unfortunately. If you know of a place to buy some of these things, please clue me in.. I don’t know if Miller still carries parts for a machine that’s probably 40 years old. I gather the wire feed motor (or controller?) isn’t available anymore but like I said I have no idea what state things are in. I’ll be hopefully starting to do some initial cleaning in the next week or so after I finish another project and will blow out the cobwebs and dirt that I saw inside and take additional pictures to post here for someones amusement..
I don’t have but a few photos at the moment.. I’ll post more in the next day or two..
If you have any thoughts on starting this rehab, I’m all ears. I’ll tackle some of the easy stuff and I’ve got NO desire to plug this thing in until I can verify the general state of the machine first.
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