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- - By reb81234 Date 09-06-2007 21:55
I am looking to convert my sa-200ith the Continental in it to A kabota, Does anyone have any parts or Information on doing this? The engine mounting plate and flywheel from a regular Lincoln with the Kabota in it would help alot.
Parent - - By KSellon (****) Date 09-07-2007 14:06
The mounting plate and flywheel on the SA200 w/Cont engine will not interchange with the Kubota. We had a customer who coupled the two together with a little machine shop work to make the bolt patterns match. It ran a couple of days until the torque of the engine snapped the main armature shaft off just behind the windings.

To be honest Tom Fowler of Hybriweld is the only one to properly engineer putting a Yanmar on the SA200's. Don't think our shop hasn't tried combining the Perkins or Kubota on the SA200's. We just aren't confident with their prolonged operation.

Good Luck
Parent - - By gshuma (**) Date 09-07-2007 17:11
Are you sure that failure was caused by too much torque? Because it ran for such a short time I would bet on fatigue failure do to misalignment.
Parent - - By KSellon (****) Date 09-07-2007 17:27 Edited 09-07-2007 17:30
I wasn't standing next to it when it happened. The customer just brought the machine to me after it happened. And you can actually see the spin pattern on the shaft. Customer said it happened on start up. The way I figure Lincoln made these machines the way they did for a reason, why screw with something that has worked for 100 years.
Parent - - By gshuma (**) Date 09-07-2007 19:45
I still think that it flexed. You will see a spin pattern on most broken shafts regardless of the cause.
You are right though, those old clunkers weld better than anything that has come down the pike.
I think the good weld charactaristics come from the way the engine reacts against the load.
Parent - - By chris2698 (****) Date 09-08-2007 01:24
Hybriweld and one other company in Texas does the yanmar conversions here is there link http://americanweldingsupply.com/specials.php
it looks like it could be a good conversion.
Parent - - By KSellon (****) Date 09-11-2007 17:33
I have a couple of customers that had that done. Looks nice and runs good, Tom always does a good job. The thing I choked on was the 6-10K price. Aside from nostalgic reason why not just buy a 200D? Give me some feedback on this. I don't have any interest in the conversion but would like to have opinions to put up on our website. Thanks
Parent - - By chris2698 (****) Date 09-11-2007 23:24
6- 10k that is crazy I would think like 4500 or something. I guess people would rather do the conversion because I thought I had heard the newer ones really still aren't all copper they still have some aluminum parts. That is only what I heard.

Chris
Parent - By KSellon (****) Date 09-12-2007 20:37
http://mylincolnelectric.com/Catalog/equipmentdatasheet.asp?p=16022 Go to the page, listed on the descrip is 'all copper windings'

With the way the welders around here are buying the Vantage, you'd never know Lincolns warranty bill with me outweighs my parts bill with them.
Parent - By downhandonly (***) Date 09-10-2007 03:17
buy a 200d
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