Welding Tips and Tricks

Last week the hose blew on our Miller Snycrowave 350LX, we swapped the torxh out for another Weldmark/CK 20/series torch....same thing happened tonight to the same guy...lol

Hard to tell, but is that the hose that is also the power lead, or is it just the water return hose with a copper crimp that I'm seeing?

Using deionised water?

Rick,
Last winter I cooked a hose on a fairly new torch and what I found was my return line to the water cooler had froze and it boiled the water in the torch but never made it to the water cooler. If your shop is not heated that might be something to look at.

Len

Heated shop, dionzied water with Miller coolant.

Rick,
Can you see if you have flow? Maybe a restriction in the return system? Other than that, not a clue.

Len

Braehill wrote:Rick,
Can you see if you have flow? Maybe a restriction in the return system? Other than that, not a clue.

Len

I'll have to check tomorrow I was knee deep in a big sanitary pipe job and didn't have time to mess with it this evening.

Rick_H,

The deformation at the "burst" looks like melt, rather than simple "blowout". Note the swollen lip of the poly at the opening. This suggests severe local heating.

You must have a flow restriction of some sort, or, somehow (and this makes NO sense), a short path for the HF at this point.

Steve S

Otto Nobedder wrote:Rick_H,

The deformation at the "burst" looks like melt, rather than simple "blowout". Note the swollen lip of the poly at the opening. This suggests severe local heating.

You must have a flow restriction of some sort, or, somehow (and this makes NO sense), a short path for the HF at this point.

Steve S

Agreed...definitely melted the hose,

I had time to check tonight, getting great flow through the torch and cable, so if I do have a blockage it is inside the unit.