Uses for a spare inductor?

[a111r]

 

[a111r]

This is spare, off a small Clarke 90. They hardly ever seem to fail, other than the crimped joint needing re-making.
What else could it be used for?

 

[Fazerruss]

Paper weight

 

[tom2207]

Pimping a Clarke 70.

 

[a111r]

Oh Tom, a 70 Amp mig welder, it must be zinc fumes?
Well, I ended up with three times as many.

So I gave them all to a fellow mad person on here.
Projects forthcoming.

 

[johnrev]

Hey not so much of the 'mad'................... Slightly eccentric maybe!

Thanks again Andy. These will be very handy for my 'mad' experiments once I can get the time to carry on with the frankenwelder.

I spent my spare time today doing battle with my old Sealey MM100XT. Decided to make a better job of the torch and it's cable which I bodged years ago and convert it for gasless wire at the same time. I've come to the conclusion that although gasless ain't pretty it will be really handy not to have to swap over my gas bottle or drag a big machine out every time I want a quick splatt of weld to glue some bits together.

I'm also thinking of using one or two of the chokes to make up a removable in-line inductor I can pop into the ground lead to see it's effect on performance of different machines starting with the little Sealey. It seems to run .8mm gasless wire easily from minimum up to maximum voltage with very little difference in the ferocity of the arc. Maybe a second choke could calm it down a bit??

All the best

John