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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

> >Grant-writing is taught in some Community Colleges ....
> >I don't remember if it's a "regular" course or one of
> >the ones provided as "Continuing Education".
> >
> As soon as I settle in, I plan to research this some more.  They are still 
> trying to get me to just come over for 6 months and observe the canoe 
> carving but I would like to have the money to get the local college to film 
> the process.
> Don Bowen

There are people at Community Colleges whose
primary job is to give away money to "students" -
use "grant" and "publicity for ____" in the same
sentence a few times while you are determining
who is actually in charge of disbursing funds.

A "business plan" helps, too, *before* you
approach anybody, showing you've given the 
matter some thought and you do "mean business" - 
giving them ample credit, *of course* ....

And for the 'plan', there must be a gov-"Small Business
Bureau somewhere near you - retired executives
volunteer to help people in various business ways
and what better way than to record history being
made ? By "disadvantaged" people, yet ?

Toni
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Sasha typed :
> [First appeared in the Industrial Worker, Feb. 9, 1932; 
> text taken from Joyce L. Kornbluh, ed., 
>
> Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology]

and I researched, online, at home, but at my library :
(they have a copy but will not release it - so I used
one of their other screens to put in an Interlibrary
Loan. *Very* convenient, these electronic services !)

Don (Pacific Islander) might be interested in the

"Rebel without a crew" title .... <g>

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This is supplementary to previous postings I made on engine-generator
welders (not sure they made it into the Homestead Archives)

http://www.huv.com/jon/jeep/Welder/portable-welder.html  (Jon's Jeep
website, schematic, materials list to make a rotary lawnmower into a
welder, also refer to the old Mother Earth archives which had an article
doing the same thing.)

http://theepicenter.com/tow02077.html  (epicenter horizontal shaft
engine generator, they also sell a metal plate upon which to mount both
engine and generator, easier than trying to fabricate your own.
See the easier-to-come by vertical shaft engine option, and the bracket
to direct-couple (no belts) engine and generator---it's not a
quill-mount where a tapered shaft fits into a tapered hole, uses
something like a Lord coupling to couple two, hopefully same-diameter
shafts.).

Back in the mid 1950's I used 7/8 inch tempered masonite as a base for
one of my engine-generator models---more rigid than plywood and a lot
more rigid than cast-aluminum.  Also used a Lord coupling which didn't
pound out under two-stroke power impulses as some other brands did.

http://www.qsl.net/ns8o/Induction_Generator.html  (some info on
induction motors as generators---for resistance loads, don't use them to
start motor loads)

The above are intended for stick-welders, one battery is really
insufficient, as is 12 volts---better to put two batteries in series to
the welder cables, and charge the batteries via 12-volt parallel hookup.

And you should buy the Homepower archive CD's---Hp #77 describes a
pulsing desulfator circuit that is the only way to restore a battery so
dead and sulfated it has reversed polarity.

And you would get better performance from a wire-feed than from welding
rods.  Two 12-volt batteries in series will suffice for most wire-feed work



Using a wire-feed welder will produce better welds. You can easily
modify a "wal-mart" wire-feed welder to run on 24v DC.

Use a heavy-current parallel mosfet bank in series with the high-power
inductor on the positive side (electrode).

The mosfets can be wired with all common leads in parallel. The
current-handling capability of the bank is the sum of all the mosfet's
current ratings. It can be built from almost any kind of mosfet as long
as you have enough total current handling capability and you have plenty
of heat-sinking capability.

Place a HEAVY CURRENT rectifier in series between the mosfet bank and
the inductor. Place another HEAVY CURRENT rectifier in REVERSE BIAS mode
between the GROUND and mosfet side of the inductor.

Drive the mosfet bank's common gate lead with a pulse-width modulator
built from two 555 timer IC's.

One 555 is in ASTABLE mode, set for a 50% duty-cycle (important), set to
the harmonic frequency of the heavy inductor. It's output trigger's the
second 555 timer chip. This frequency is adjusted ONCE and then FIXED in
position.

The second 555 is in MONOSTABLE mode and it's output pulse width should
be adjustable from 1% to 100% of the FIRST 555's output pulse-width.
This output goes to the mosfet bank gate lead. This 555's pulse width is
your WELD-POWER adjustment. Narrowing the pulse-width reduces the amount
of time the mosfet bank in on.

Here's what happens, in termes of "positive going" current flow. Don't
split hairs.

This is ONE complete cycle.

   1. The mosfet bank turns on, allowing current to flow through the
rectifer, through the inductor and then through the electrode and
workpiece and back to ground.
   2. The mosfet bank shuts off. The inductor's field collapses,
releasing it's EMF as a second current pulse that goes through the
electrode and workpiece. This field collapse pulse is routed through the
REVERSE BIAS rectifier.

This is the MOST EFFICIENT way to drive your wire-feed welder from a
pure DC source.