Metalman111
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- Jan 9, 2021
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Old Hobart welder, driven by a Volkswagen engine.also the tag says 3phase. Is there a built in converter? I'm guessing age around the 30,a to 50,s.
This will be for sale once I figure some things out.
The VW motor may be worth a considerable sum......welder is not......Consequently ,find capacity of VW,advertise it as a beach buggy motor............99% of buggy motors are unrepairable due to busted /warped crankcases....buggys sell for $25k on the road........When you go to sell the motor ,buyers will give you all kinds of crap why its worthless,just stick to around $1k if it goes.
It looks identical to the engine in my old 1959 type 1 (mine was blue, and that giant folding sunroof was great))from the looks of it it does look like a pretty early single port 6 volt engine, based on the exhaust system and generator. The engine would more likely be of interest to someone restoring a pre 1958 type 1 rather than putting it into a buggy. The welder might be of interest to someone over at weldingweb. Jim
What he said. Looks like that is a 3 speed unit with a fine adjust. I'm going to disagree a little, and say that is a '40's generator unit. No idea about the engine.
I'll stand by what I wrote given the pictures shown. The center knob is the fine adjust. This unit appears to predate the ships wheel units. Photo 3 shows a lever below the fine adjust with a low, medium, and high. That is why I called it a 3 speed machine.
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