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Help a rookie understand. What exactly is the water cooling?

start of a manifold about 1980????

Dave and Roger----water cooling allows a much smaller torch head for getting into some really tight corners--you can run 200+ amps thru a torch head about the size of a ball point pin

OK, thanks Jerry!!!! Well worth the extra $$$$$ then! Thanks!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

How do you like the Coolmate 3 Jerry???? Not sure I would ever be tiggin' enough to justify water cooled---or do I just not know what all the water cooling does?????

that why you just hook the torch up to main water tap . still be doing it but somone would shut off the valve or i for get the water was on then where was a mess on the shop floor or the line would freeze i like the smaller torch head with water when i inside welding a head ports

I never do any welding in ports or anything, but I can certainly see where it would be nice to run one of the smaller torches!!!! Would make doing detail work and small pieces a lot easier to do with better resultz!!!!!

torch head is liquid cooled not water but you can use water must be flowing thru torch or or can burn it up. you have a in and out line and past 250 amps water get so hot i have melted the lines . the torch head with alcolol thru a cooler tower works abit better then just water

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Dave and Roger----water cooling allows a much smaller torch head for getting into some really tight corners--you can run 200+ amps thru a torch head about the size of a ball point pin

So the coolant flows through the torch, keeping it cool with higher power levels, yielding a smaller, more versitile torch? Super cool!!

I added a couple edit comments about what was in the pics---
Dave--also some of the small torch heads you can twist around the shape and angle of the tip/nozzle
Romeo Palimedes have a straight inline torch that looked like a fountain pin--Miss seeing him---
I also have a on/off switch saddled to my torch to control the welder for like I'm twisted up inside a car doing a roll cage or such--too old to still be able to twist my leg around and step on the pedal---there is also one that has amp control-I think thats what Pat mentioned--I took it off as it sorta clicked when I pushed it and I would stick the tunsten--I think they have a rotary one now that that probably wouldn't happen with.

I use an antifreeze solution in mine---won't freeze and works good--sometimes the city water line would boil

intake yep welded up one in one day

000_0392.jpgintake yep welded up one in one day not looking to do any more in just one day

Yeah, I've tried one with the thumb control, friend of man has it on his. My hands are just a bit too crippled up to be able to use it anymore, guess I'll have to stick with the foot pedal.... Lack of mobility, decreased range of motion are the two main reasons I'm going to build the new rotisserie with a hydraulic motor to rotate it remotely, easier for me to turn the car into position rather then try to turn my body into position!!!!!

i hear cheap vodka work for coolant and you can tap in to it if you like it warm to very hot could run it past a super chiller

Now look guys---I don't want any of you to get the idea that I'm one of those great welders like Pat and all those others--I'm just a old farm boy that has done some welding on things over the years , however , I never worked as a welder and it is one of the things I wish I could do better(all them nice rows of weld ripples) I have had the support of some of the best in the world to answer my questions and give me guidance---I have tacked many things and took them to some of those guys who have then welded them up.

My biggest claim as a welder is that one of the machines I had was used to weld up some of the stuff in the space program and somes in museums and some got left on the moon!!!

Pat the reason we beat the Russians to the moon is because the welders got drunk drinking the vodka!!!!!!!!!!

come on jerry just having some fun with this i not the best far from it but i can make it work and some times make it look nice. i have the same thing dave has Firbo and some bad disc so i never can get to the point were i not jumping from the pain you have to be dead still for nice welds. i had one doc that was feeding me so many pills that i just flowed in to the chair when i welded .but the junk he was feeding me was eatting a hole in my guts