A little help on what I have and need

With that bank of capacitors it looks sumwhat like a TIG welder but not compleatly.
Might just be a power supply.
 
Im thinking along the lines of a plasma cutter........

Cheers Phil
 
Small update. I plugged it in to check it out.

Foot pedal controls gas flow only.
It outputs constant current, 0-10amps.

It most likely is an older jewelers/laboratory welder. No fancy pulse welding. I will back burner it for now and pick up some tungsten to play around with. It will get me interesting in micro tig and I will research how to boost it to 30-50amps and add a circuit for pulse welding. This may prove to be too cost/time prohibitive and I'll look into just buying something that will work. I would like to turn into a learning project, if anyone has any specific knowledge please let me know
 
It's some kind of a spot welder I think, those caps are strapped to "dump" a charge of current quickly, and the transformer and rectifier are too small for continuous duty arc welding.
Nice chunk of hardware though.
Mark S.
 
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