Campbell Hausfeld Welder Flux Core 80 Parts

I was at a friends small engine shop today looking for parts . Didn't have the parts that I needed in his big pile of parts, but while looking around I saw a big blue box on top of a pile of riding mowers . I asked him if it wasa welder and he said it was . Wire feed , I asked then ,and he said that it was . Then I asked what was wrong with it ? He said it just quit, like it was unpluged ,wouldn't weld wouldn't feed the wire out. I then asked if I could have it in order to get it out of his way and he said yes . Well , I climbed over a pile of lawnmowers and got it . The side where the wire spool is, was off , exposing the wire spool and the wire was rusted a little. Well , I got it home ,plugged it up and .. it actually came on !!!! I squeezed the welding handle and the wire feed out .. I got a piece of metal and hooked up the ground clamp and it actually started welding . It has a duty cycle over exceed limiter on it and they probably overceeded the duty cycle of it and it shut off to cool down . It said that it had that device on the front of it . It is a little dirty as it was in a shop and he's not a very neat person . Also , it has a few dents and scratches and the paint is chipped in a few places, but hey, it work and a new one is over $200.00 dollars , so it saved me a lot of money. I need to order a piece that holds the wire spool on , but that's small change compared to a new welder . Here are some pictures of it and a link to the manual site . It is a Campbell Hausfeld Flux Core 80, Single Phase ,Wire Welder . Model No. WF2000. Haven't had a chance to really do some welding with it to really put it to a test ,but I'm getting ready to take it to a friends garage and try it out. Did I get lucky or what today ????

Whizkid

Thank you for your comments , wheather they were good or bad , postive or negative. Everyone's entilted to their opinions and free thoughts, but still you can't beat a free $200.00+ welder that works. Yes , there are better more expensive ones , but while they are nice to have you have to be a serious welder and do a lot of welding in order for it to pay for itself. I'm just a beginning / hobbist welder , so this welder will do me just fine. I'll admit , though, that I would like to have a better one . Oh well, maybe someday.

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Whizkid

Thank you for your words of encouragement. I think that if I take care of it and don't over do it , the welder will be good for what I need it for. I wish that it could weld up to 1/4 in. thick metal, for decks on lawnmowers .

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Whizkid

Thank's, I'll try TSC this weekend. It's the closest welding store that we have . There maybe another one,though . I'll look in the phonebook.

Whizkid

Thanks . It was a once in a lifetime chance for something like that to happen to me.

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I understood what you were saying, more or less . I knew that you were talking about angles and welding , but I just stated that you won't have to worry about that happening anytime soon as I don't have a gooseneck , but I wish that I did.

Whizkid

The little Century always did have trouble burning .030 solid wire, you needed to make sure the 120V feed was heavy and short, or it really struggled to produce enough amps to burn .030 wire.

A couple years ago we got a millermatic 212 for the main shop welder and retired the little century for those light jobs that the big miller could not reach. To make the little 120V welder more portable for jobs like welding combine grain elevator sheet metal, way up on top of the combine in a breeze that would kill a gas sheilded weld. we removed the gas kit and fitted the little welder with a spool of .030 flux core wire.
This not only made that little welder a lot more portable and able to weld in wind, but flux core wire is about 50% flux, so is about like welding .015 solid wire. With that little metal to burn, the thing now works great, even on the end of a 50ft 12GA extension cord.

Used within it's limits, your little freeby welder will do just fine.

I'm not going to let them beat me up. Everyone's entitled to their opinions about it , but still you can't beat a $200.00+ freebie that works.

Whizkid

A cheap/free welder is better than no welder for sure.

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I won't be building or working on a gooseneck trailer as I don't own one, nor do I have anything to pull one with . Sure would be nice if I did have one, though. Since I don't have one ,though ,think of the gas that I save without having another vechile to worry with , especially with a big vechile that's big enough to pull a gooseneck.

Whizkid

My Clarke welder had bigtime feeding problems from day one. After fighting it for several years, I figured out it had a plastic shield the wire fed through, and the plastic would heat up and bind the wire.

I replaced the plastic shield with a steel one from a Hobart welder and it's been flawless ever since.