Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Auction Find: Unipower UP-400 Vehicle-Mount Welder


This thing is terrifying.


Near as I can tell, it's a box you put inside your car, which bypasses the voltage regulator, allowing you to use high-voltage DC.

Also it is welded shut.


In one of my auction lots there were ten of these things in a basket.


Luckily, tucked in amongst them was the instruction... page.


It can't be any newer than 1971.  I'm betting that the advent of electronic ignition - and things that would fry if, say, unregulated DC was on the loose, made these devices obsolete.

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