My New Generator

In 2002, my dad called me and said there was a Lincoln Weldanpower 150 generator for sale in the paper.  He said they wanted $400 and wanted to know if I wanted to come and look at it.  I told him I wanted him to go look at it and buy it if he thought it was OK.  He did just that.

Before I could get up to Akron to look at it (and reimburse him), he had it all checked out and offered to recondition it. It appeared to mostly just need a paint job.  I took him up on the offer and he went to work.  Below is the finished product.  (I really regret that I don't have a "before" picture.

This generator is rated at 4000 KW.  It has a 230 V outlet and a 115 V outlet.  It has welding amperages of 50 to 150 AMPs.

He performed the following repair actions: Cleaned and painted the entire machine. Rebuilt the welding selector switch. Shortened the frame. Lubricated the generator bearing (required removal of the fan. Made new throtle linkage. Replaced the carburetor float bowl gasket. Straightened out the gas tank opening and cap. Improved the welding terminals with brass nuts and washers. Adjusted the carburetor float. Replaced one of the capacitors. Set the speed to be exactly 3600 RPM under load. Probably much more that I'm not even aware of.

He even made wooden packing blocks for hauling it on his trailer.

Obviously, I'm pretty lucky to have a dad who first of all can do this, and secondly is willing to do this.  He's a super dad!

Check out the first project I completed with the welder here.