HBS KES 1600 Stud Welder ???????????

[awemawson]

I've just 'won' a stud welder on ebay - it's a KES 1600 by HBS - anyone know anything about them?

I 'think' it welds up to 6 mm studs, and I 'think' that it's a capacitive discharge machine, but information is very sketchy and  it's not arrived yet 

This is a case of solving 'yesterdays problem' - some years ago I was making an assembly that would have been so much easier using a stud welder, so I've hankered after one ever since. This popped up as a 'buy it now' at a very acceptable price so I snatched it quickly.

Chap had got it from a local fabrication shop that was closing down, and had hoped to use it to pull dents out of body work, but those type of stud guns are far lighter duty I think.

If it doesn't work I've at least bought myself an expensive pair of Mole Grips 

[dawesy]

Looks a Nice bit of kit Andrew.
Id say looking at it should be the capacitive type, we used a similar machine when I worked at Toyota. Just make sure your hands/ gloves are dry when putting the studs in the collet, had a few tickles off them
Very handy machine to have. Is it 3ph?

[ddmckee54]

Don't know if this will help or not, I think it's the manual for several KES stud welders including the 1600TH.  Is that the flavor that you have by any chance?

Don

[awemawson]

Hi Don,

Did you include an attachment, if so it's not showing up? The beast only bears the number 1600, and is single phase

Thanks,
Andrew

[Fleety]

I have the same stud welder as this and I would also like to find a copy of the manual.

mine came out of an industrial unit that the occupiers had neglected to pay the bills on.

mine has a few notes written on the top in pen i.e m6: xxx amps, m8": xxx amps

ive only ever used it for M6 studs and it took a bit of fiddling with the settings and knowing how hard to push on the gun before I got it right.

and ive never worked out why mine has two earth leads on it?

[awemawson]

Hi Fleety,

I never did find any documents for the stud welder, but I seem to remember that I wrote another thread about it in the 'new from old' section where I put a few details. It's nice kit and make a nice weld

[mexican jon]

Don't know if this any help to you  gives details about the correct way in which to use the stud welder 

[awemawson]

Hi Jon

Thanks - yes that's the document that I uploaded in post #5 of this thread:

http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,10358.0/all.html

[Fleety]

thanks gents,

I didn't see your other thread when I first looked, thanks for the link