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Thin skinned? Yeah right. I try to avoid confrontation on these sites, but you seem to seek it out.
I can count on one hand, (and still have fingers left over) where you have actually helped anybody.
A large percentage of your posts are correcting people on terminological,...
I've read where people in the know say not to do that! That is old school. Buy a stone! If you don't have 120-volt power most likely it won't weld. I bought a Red Face in the same situation as yours. Ran but no weld, it had 120-volts power tho. I removed all the brushes and cleaned the copper holders...
It's a paper work world, and those in charge want to see paper, especially the engineer of record!
Guess it all depends on what level you want to work at.
Have you considered running the weld down hill? Place the 3” dia tube horizontally, start your weld on the flange at 12 0'clock, run to 3 0'clock, down to 6 0'clock. Weld the other side 12, 9, 6.
FixaLinc is extremely knowledgeable on these old machines! Not sure if he's a member here or not. Yet to see him stumped on a problem with an SA-200 or an old tractor!
Go to the AWS forum, SA-200 Section, and look around there are several posts with links to PDF files with everything you'd ever want to know about these old girls. I have them saved, but don't know how to post them.
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