Hello, for a couple months now I've had this welder, and it's actually welded fine no issues. But, I went to change out my outlet plug, to a modern one, and I had a wire break off and I'm not sure where it goes, looks like maybe the rheostat?. Anybody have a picture to help me out, on how to hook it up?. Only had 2 wires off the old one, 1 wire out of the generator, and possibly 1 going to the rheostat.. any help on that would great.

Second issue, the welder starts up (hand crank) and runs fine, minus a little smoke. But as I said above it used to weld fine, but now it won't even strike an arc, nor idle up. Doesnt even attempt any sparks. But while running on idle, I noticed my rheostat started glowing orange when it was cranked up past 40-50. Is there a reason why it would be doing this?. Is that a leading cause on why it won't weld anymore?.

Was my grandpa's welder looking to get it working, since it was just working a month ago. Looking to get it restored soon. But want it completely functioning.