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Repairing cracking rubber sheathing

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Stan in Oly, WA

02-22-2006 22:05:00




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Last weekend I bought a Lincoln 180 amp AC tombstone welder on eBay for $40, local pickup. The picture of it looked terrible, and the welder looked worse than the picture when I picked it up. But it came with 50' of welding lead (about 30' of what I'd guess was #1/0 and 20' whips of maybe #4) and it turned out to have the sweetest arc of any welder I've used, although Lincoln told me that that style of welder was never made with copper windings.

The rubber sheathing of the 30'section, which holds both the electrode lead and the ground, is badly cracked,and some of it has come off already. Is there anything that can be done about this? I can imagine putting some kind of solvent on it to melt the surface back together before the solvent evaporates, leaving the sheathing better than ever. I can also imagine winning the biggest lottery in the world, but I don't expect to.

Stan

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mph

02-23-2006 06:28:50




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 Re: Repairing cracking rubber sheathing in reply to Stan in Oly, WA, 02-22-2006 22:05:00  
Had the same thing on a miller big 40 gas.All I did was use black elec. tape[UL listed] worked good for a while. But found one better liquid elec.tape.Takes a little time [2 coats] but worth it. Less than 6 bucks a can. Didn't want to get new leads{the new ones are mostly junk now days. m.p.h.



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souNdguy

02-23-2006 05:06:02




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 Re: Repairing cracking rubber sheathing in reply to Stan in Oly, WA, 02-22-2006 22:05:00  
3 options come to mind.

1, if the insulation is damaged bad enough, over enough wire.. replace it.

2, If it isn't that bad, and is isolated.. get some heat shrink tubing, and slide it over the bad spots and shrink with a hair dryer / heat gun.

3, Some of my buddies that word in metal salvage tell me tat to keep their welding leads from getting eaton up from sharp metal edges and being run over by forklifts, and pitted from welding arcs, and slag from torches, they get some rubber hose.. like heater line, something with an ID slightly bigger than the OD of the welder lead... lube it with cable-ease ( conduit lube ), and then pull it thru with a pilot wire..

Makes it a bit thicker and pulkier.. but armores it up good.

Other 'looming' products like spiral loom ( spaghetti ), and split loom might work.. I'd vote for split loom, then use black tape every foot on it to secure the looming closed.

Any of those should work. Heck.. i bought a tractor that had the battery and starter cables slid thru green garden hose as the insulation was so bad.. I changed those puppies out fast!

Soundguy

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