After viewing an instructible about a homemade arc welder I decided that the project looked so simple that I would try it out. I needed 2 microwaves to take apart for their transformers. Well I purchased one for $14 at the local value village and JUST when I'm about to get the coil out, I nick the side of the coil with the wire I DON'T want to damage. That's about an hours' worth of work down the drain and I'm back to square one.
Well yesterday I picked up a new microwave off of freecycle.org, and then went to home depot and bough an 8 inch gutter nail to use as a drift, and a 24 oz ball-pein hammer (instead of my trusty waffle-faced framing hammer that's served me so well for my wood projects), as well as a 25 feet of 10 gauge wire, in anticipation of ACTUALLY WINDING THIS COIL!
Ideally I would package the welder with the plasma cutter (also on instructibles.com) and everything would be awesome, but right now I need to focus on finishing this project. I think this will help get my teeth cut on some building.
Next time I will post pictures of the process of preparing the transformers.
Real Life Alert
I have midterms this upcoming week, so I will be unable to do much in the way of working on this project. Differential equations, and discrete modeling... wish me luck!
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