TIG TORCH WATER COOLER

xland · Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:32 am

5mm aluminium square with 4mm brackets starting to get a bit too hot using my WP17 aircooled.
So built a garden hose water cooler, bought a WP20 torch with 8m lead and all good now.

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Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:45 am

what are you using for a pump to circulate the water?

Oscar · Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:53 pm

tweake wrote:what are you using for a pump to circulate the water?

garden hose, no recirculation. probably watering the plants with it.

Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:04 am

Oscar wrote:
tweake wrote:what are you using for a pump to circulate the water?
garden hose, no recirculation. probably watering the plants with it.

its not going to work.
by the looks of it, its a sealed tank with garden hose going in and a return out (to garden). plus the torch in/out.
all the water will do is pressurise the tank, flow into the tank and flow straight out of the tank. there is nothing there to circulate the water through the torch.

the easy version is to get rid of the tank and hook the garden hose directly to the torch and the return from the torch goes to the garden.

if you run a tank you need to run a pump of some kind to circulate the water through the torch.

xland · Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:49 am

Monger,
you are correct, i originally designed it to use with a pump,
in a hurry to finish 6mm square project, I tried the garden hose total loss system and it seemed to work OK

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Oscar · Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:13 pm

tweake wrote:
Oscar wrote:
tweake wrote:what are you using for a pump to circulate the water?
garden hose, no recirculation. probably watering the plants with it.
its not going to work.
by the looks of it, its a sealed tank with garden hose going in and a return out (to garden). plus the torch in/out.
all the water will do is pressurise the tank, flow into the tank and flow straight out of the tank. there is nothing there to circulate the water through the torch.

the easy version is to get rid of the tank and hook the garden hose directly to the torch and the return from the torch goes to the garden.

if you run a tank you need to run a pump of some kind to circulate the water through the torch.

correct. The pics didn't load previously. Nothing would force the incoming, cool water into the torch line to remove heat.