Picked up a nice little welding rod oven on CL

[mikehaugen]

Oh that's nothing.

you know, if you would actually do some welding once in a while you wouldn't have all of those rods laying around collecting dust. :laughing:

 

[Arc weld]

Oh that's nothing.

It's late and my eyes are tired but I spotted a mistake in one of your pictures. :shocked: When you look you'll see it too. Wonder if anyone else will spot it. Maybe first person to spot it gets a free welding lesson from the master. :cool2:

 

[Furu]

Thanks to the keen eye of Shield Arc and his watching of Craigs List,
I picked up three of the rod ovens back in late 2012 for a total of $50 that I posted about a problem in
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/welding/264114-rod-oven-pops-gfi-breaker.html

That problem was resolved. I have two BVT models with variable thermostats and one BHT models with a fixed thermostat.
I use the one and keep the others as spares. Probably should sell them but parts are not available for the older ovens anymore (according to the manufacturer) thus I keep them just in case.

First I am definitely not doing code work
but I do like the way 7018 burns after it has been in the oven for a couple of hours. Two hours is good but I can see a difference if I let it go to three hours. The thermostat turns them off when they get hot enough and then cycles to keep the rods at the variable set temp on the BVT's and a fixed temp on the BHT model.

You will really like the ovens for your 7018.

 

[Shield Arc]

It's late and my eyes are tired but I spotted a mistake in one of your pictures. :shocked: When you look you'll see it too. Wonder if anyone else will spot it. Maybe first person to spot it gets a free welding lesson from the master. :cool2:

Oven is not up to the correct temperature!
Give me some time to get a passport. Then let me know when it's a good time for you, for me to come up and get those welding lessons.

 

[mx842]

I leave my 300-pound oven on 24/7. My shop is on it's own electrical meter, it is very unusual for my power bill to be over $30.00 per month.

Holly crapolla............you guys have it good where you are. Around here the federal, state and local taxes, line subscriber charges and other fees are more than that weather you use any juice or not. Most of the time my shop bill has more add on charges than what power I get billed for.

 

[Shield Arc]

Oh I know! I have family, and friends who live in California. PG&E is the biggest rip off I've seen! My one niece pays around $700.00 a month for electricity:shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:! I wouldn't pay that much for a house payment.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Those little portable 10 lb rod ovens are usually about 75 watts.

Sooooo. 75 watts x 24 hours x30 days = 54000 watt hours = 54 Kilowatt hours x $0.11 per Kilowatt hour (the price around here, your price may vary) = $5.94 per month. x 12 months = $71.28 annually. Nothing to sneeze at, but not quite as bad as $720 per year

Welding | Industrial DryRod Ovens & Furnaces | DryRod II Portable Electrode Ovens, PHOENIX 1205500 | B301834 - GlobalIndustrial.com

That is good figuring but you failed to note that the dryrod ovens are thermostat controlled and insulated so they don't run all the time. I would bet the actual cost to run is about 1/4 that or less.

I have a 350# Phoenix Dry Rod oven that is set at 275F and stays plugged in all the time. My shop is on a separate meter and most months my bill is about $40 which includes lights, fans, welding machine and lots of grinding and cutting with my chop saw. When I don't do a bit of welding for a month(like winter months), the bill is usually minimum rate. To me the ability to have dry rods and never worry about my 7018 getting rusty and unusable is worth what ever the cost is. I seem to recall that I paid $200 for my oven used on Craigslist which was also a bargain. I usually keep around 100# of rods in it, 50# 1/8" and 50#3/32" when freshly stocked.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Today I managed to pick up a nice little rod oven on Craig's List for $40.00. I'm not sure I really need it right now, but it was 15 minutes away and seemed like a fair price. What do you guys think?

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That is a fair price for that oven. IIRC they run $150- $200 new.

 

[k0ua]

That is good figuring but you failed to note that the dryrod ovens are thermostat controlled and insulated so they don't run all the time. I would bet the actual cost to run is about 1/4 that or less.

I have a 350# Phoenix Dry Rod oven that is set at 275F and stays plugged in all the time. My shop is on a separate meter and most months my bill is about $40 which includes lights, fans, welding machine and lots of grinding and cutting with my chop saw. When I don't do a bit of welding for a month(like winter months), the bill is usually minimum rate. To me the ability to have dry rods and never worry about my 7018 getting rusty and unusable is worth what ever the cost is. I seem to recall that I paid $200 for my oven used on Craigslist which was also a bargain. I usually keep around 100# of rods in it, 50# 1/8" and 50#3/32" when freshly stocked.

I knew about the thermostat, but I figured I had stomped on the poster enough with a factor of 10 on the yearly cost to run the rod oven. And besides, thermostats can stick closed, and it might run continuously.

 

[Gary Fowler]

As noted by other poster, put 10# of 7018 in the oven and keep it powered up 100% of the time when storing rods. You can take the portable oven away from power for up to 5 hours and not have any effect on your rods but it should be hot all the time when just storing your rods. It is thermostat controlled so it will only cycle on when needed.
Phoenix also makes a 50#, 300# and 900# version of dry rod boxes for folks like ShieldArc who need the extra capacity.