Antique homebrew HOBART MR-300 with a flathead 6

[MilitiaMetals]

Hobart 300 welder with a flathead 6, home brew combo! Coming home soon! Worst case scenario she's a parts machine.
Was welding when parked around 20 years ago.

[ronsii]

Hobart 300 welder with a flathead 6, home brew combo! Coming home soon! Worst case scenario she's a parts machine.
Was welding when parked around 20 years ago.

Looks great!!!! a little paint and charge the battery she'll be purrin' like a kitten

[MilitiaMetals]

LOL just realized the fan-shroud is made from a piece of culvert!

[ronsii]

LOL just realized the fan-shroud is made from a piece of culvert!

LOL, lots of repurposed parts on there... lead spool, gas tank...which is probably full of water from the plug

[smithdoor]

I think replace the engine so find parts.
Looks a great welder
I only seen that one in catalogs

Dave

Hobart 300 welder with a flathead 6, home brew combo! Coming home soon! Worst case scenario she's a parts machine.
Was welding when parked around 20 years ago.

[Willie B]

Looks like Chrysler industrial engine. If it is, there are four choices:
216 was used in WWII vintage Dodge military trucks.
230 was used in the Dodge Power wagon introduced in 1945, used till 1960. It was prone to cracked block & head gasket fails as first two & last two cylinders were too close.
236 was used in many welders, air compressors, and low production farm tractors.
251 was in later Power Wagons.

236 & 251 were two inches longer making room for more iron between 1-2 & 5-6 bores.

Parts are still available. I overhauled a 236 years ago stuck from sitting, and had a 230 rebuilt fully later. My block was cracked. I eventually found a rebuildable block in a cement mixer. It now powers my Power Wagon.

[MilitiaMetals]

I'm thinking a future revival custom with a V8 lol

[12V71]

I'm thinking a future revival custom with a V8 lol

Oh yeah... Small block Chevy, fake blower with a set of Zoomie pipes.

[Welder Dave]

Flat head Ford V-8. My old Hobart homebuilt had a Chrysler IND 251. Had to steal an updraft manifold off an old combine and make a U shaped adaptor to fit the updraft carb but it worked good. One of theose things I should ahve taken some pics. of. Those old Hobarts were good welders.

[MilitiaMetals]

Oh yeah... Small block Chevy, fake blower with a set of Zoomie pipes.

Fake? If I went to all that trouble of mounting a blower it would be a real one.

[12V71]

Fake? If I went to all that trouble of mounting a blower it would be a real one.

Even better

Had a buddy at an exhaust shop that built a Buick heat racer for the demolition derby years back that built his own vertical zoomies with 8 individual tiny glasspacks, It sounded pretty good... To me anyway.

[OPUS FERRO]

MilitiaMetals

. . . Coming home soon! Worst case scenario she's a parts
machine. Was welding when parked around 20 years ago.

Great photo quality - Pls post more pics - when you, 'get it out
of the weeds'.

This a high-example of deep-farm Canada [ana?]. Think, of all
the work [someones] Granddad did with this machine, to save
money, in the struggle to pay off the Wheat Ranch.

If this were 'my trophy' - I would strive to make the engine and
welder cooperate [make a spark]. Do nothing to the externals,
with the exception: of a period [farmer] gage console, and show
at vintage farm equipment events . . .

hth


Opus



ps -

'Hobart the Welder' - may be solid with Mud Dabber Condos - if
this is the case - still show it, as is, without 'Spark' . . .



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[MilitiaMetals]

MilitiaMetals



Great photo quality - Pls post more pics - when you, 'get it out
of the weeds'.

This a high-example of deep-farm Canada [ana?]. Think, of all
the work [someones] Granddad did with this machine, to save
money, in the struggle to pay off the Wheat Ranch.

If this were 'my trophy' - I would strive to make the engine and
welder cooperate [make a spark]. Do nothing to the externals,
with the exception: of a period [farmer] gage console, and show
at vintage farm equipment events . . .

hth


Opus



ps -

'Hobart the Welder' - may be solid with Mud Dabber Condos - if
this is the case - still show it, as is, without 'Spark' . . .



.

Now you've inspired me to leave it as is!

[MinnesotaDave]

Here's how my brain processes your pics.

That looks awful....I think I can save it

[MilitiaMetals]

Here's how my brain processes your pics.

That looks awful....I think I can save it

My thoughts exactly! Makes me also think about the stories it could tell if it could talk.

[MilitiaMetals]

On the way home.

[MilitiaMetals]

[MilitiaMetals]

Engine is 1946-1948 Dodge 230 c.i. from a car

[Willie B]

Engine is 1946-1948 Dodge 230 c.i. from a car

Worst case scenario! I went 230 to keep my truck correct. I console myself that it isn't numbers matching, many got replacement blocks under warranty. My truck was under 30,000 when it received its third engine.

[12345678910]

On the way home.

Did the tires hold air with no work ?

Just getting it out of the weeds it's a hundred times less pitiful

[12345678910]

The stencilling in the frame says Rumely ?

If that's related to Rumely tractors, that's pretty cool too.

I'd look at keeping that instead of paintin g over it

http://mbagmuseum.ca/artifact/rumely-oil-pull-model-s/

[Willie B]

The stencilling in the frame says Rumely ?

If that's related to Rumely tractors, that's pretty cool too.

I'd look at keeping that instead of paintin g over it

http://mbagmuseum.ca/artifact/rumely-oil-pull-model-s/

I thought the same thought. The frame is the same channel as Rumley tractor, but nobody would cut up a Rumley tractor for this purpose...........would they?

You know, I think they did!

[MilitiaMetals]

Did the tires hold air with no work ?

Just getting it out of the weeds it's a hundred times less pitiful

I literally just hooked up and left, never put any air in, 12 mile trip home.

[MilitiaMetals]

** Engine is 1946-1948 Dodge 230 c.i. from a car.
** Frame is from a 1931 or older Advance-Rumley Oil Pull tractor
** Radiator is from a 1949-1950 Oldsmobile

I won't paint anything.

Will update details as I research it more.

[MilitiaMetals]

I thought the same thought. The frame is the same channel as Rumley tractor, but nobody would cut up a Rumley tractor for this purpose...........would they?

You know, I think they did!

Lol they definitely did......dang hillbillies! I can say that cuz I are a hillbilly lol