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Bobkatz 02-25-2013 02:49:01 67.72.98.45 Report to Moderator	While at work a while ago a guy was welding under a truck with an extention light that had a metal guard covering the bulb. Well the ground lead wasn't secured well enough & while trying to weld the current followed the ground in the light cord & fried the whole cord! Don't use the house ground! Bobkatz [Reply]   [No Email]
Puddles 02-25-2013 03:34:36 24.113.77.208 Report to Moderator	Re: Ground for a welder in reply to Bobkatz, 02-25-2013 02:49:01   Back in my conveyor installing days, I burned up wiring going to conveyor motors. Jumping around, over, under conveyors welding on them you loose track of where your ground / work clamp is, you notice the welding machine is running colder but unless you have been guilty of burning wires up before you don't give it a second thought. But you learn a valuable lesson when the electrician tracks you down and chews your a$$ out! :oops:   [Reply]  [No Email]
JOB 02-25-2013 09:05:37 50.124.208.41 Report to Moderator	Re: Ground for a welder in reply to Puddles, 02-25-2013 03:34:36   Puddles we had some outside contractors come into our plant and ground to a nice clean pipe and do some welding on a conveyor or lift table or maybe part of a cross transfer conveyor at the end of two conveyors. The nice clean pipe was electrical conduit. After the contractors left and production started we had electrical problems half a dozen times per shift with the electrical equipment in the area. No one could track down the exact location of the problem. We lived with the problem until a long weekend or a summer or Christmas shutdown, can't remember which. The electricians went in and completely rewired all the affected equipment. Problem solved. Clamp the ground close to where you are welding. I know you know this now. Ever see a welder ground to a rail road track and weld to a box car? He might get more than a a$$ chewing.   [Reply]  [No Email]