Remember that Miller welder with a TIG attachment that I bought for $0.99?
I sold it on Craigslist. The buyer paid $150 for it, which was a great deal for a working welder on a running gear, with a working TIG attachment.
The interesting thing is that the buyer is a teenager. (!!!)
I delivered and helped him unload. What he told me, then, was that he was going to convert it to single phase by installing capacitors on the primary side of the transformer.
I immediately gifted him the oil filled run caps that I had.
After a couple of weeks, he told me that it works great.
What I think, seriously, is that this guy may be the next Tesla. It is not really a huge accomplishment (just a great one) for a grownup, but for a teenager, it is pretty tremendous.
My stereotype of today's teenagers is that the ony thing they are good at is using cell phones and twitter. Turns out, that not all people are like that.
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