Water cooler

Poland308 · Fri Oct 09, 2015 4:19 pm

Started the lay out on my tig water cooler.

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MosquitoMoto · Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:16 pm

Looks like some heavy duty stuff there.

I look forward to seeing progress shots.

I have a strange glitch in my brain...I am fascinated by water cooled TIG and would really like to go water cooled, although as a hobby welder and small parts fabricator, there's no real need for one. Won't stop me watching your build like a hawk, though!

Kym

Poland308 · Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:22 pm

I tend to build slow but I'll post it all

MosquitoMoto · Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:53 pm

Cheers!

All good. I'm not going anywhere.

Kym

Rupes · Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:02 pm

I didn't need one either but that didn't stop me

Well there's need and want. I wanted a really light torch still capable of 200-250amps though mostly mine will be used around the 100-150 mark.

MosquitoMoto · Sat Oct 10, 2015 8:08 am

Rupes wrote:I didn't need one either but that didn't stop me

Well there's need and want. I wanted a really light torch still capable of 200-250amps though mostly mine will be used around the 100-150 mark.

Yes...I often get 'want' and 'need' confused. I seem to 'need' a lot of motorcycles in my life, that's for sure.

Love threads like this because I probably would never be able to justify paying for a water cooler, but could probably make one for a hell of a lot less than the asking price. So always interested to see how you guys go about it.

Kym

Rupes · Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:06 am

Good fun doing it too, and you know what's in it and how it work etc, easy to fix if it plays up. Just trawl ebay for a procon pump, grab one when you spot one around $100 or so, motor is about $90, rest is fabrication and some plumbing.

I'm a one bike man. Despite how it looks its not a trailer queen, I blew the motor at EC on a track day which is the only reason I'm not out on it every weekend. Still coming together though. Its the main reason I wanted an acdc tig. Used to get the shits trying to find people to do small jobs like modding the subframe or exhaust, fabbing brackets etc. Same with milling.

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Poland308 · Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:34 am

I got my pro con and motor from a local beer distributor and then he gave me a new pump in case the one on the motor acts up.

Rupes · Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:41 am

Seems a lot more of them in the US, commercial coffee machines use them as well. Would have been nice to grab one that mounts directly to the motor as most of them seem to do, I had to make a flange and use a flexible coupling as the one I got was a bolt on type. Can't complain though I think it was only $50 or $60

Poland308 · Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:56 am

That's what I got it has a little plastic flat that meshes in with a groove in the shaft. The one on my motor was off a cooling line unit that pumped glycol lines next to the keg lines to keep the beer cold.

MosquitoMoto · Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:09 pm

All this info is dangerous.

Now I'm on eBay. It's a slippery slope...

Kym

Rupes · Sun Oct 11, 2015 4:17 am

I know their common in beverage dispensing/carbonators. Didn't think of beer lines and glycol. I know someone in that field, will have a poke around and see if he's got any stuff laying about

Poland308 · Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:01 pm

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Filling in and flushing out the gaps for a smooth Finnish

Poland308 · Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:07 am

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So I flushed out and smoothed over all the low spots. Then a buddy came over asking about some problems he was having with his used oil burner and after we talked it through I ended up adding a drop tube to my future cooler and a tap port. It's now going to be used for an water separator for his used oil. But I traded it for a slab of aluminum that's 6-1/2 x 14-1/2 x 1 sweet new chill block. And an old ice maker that I salvaged all the 22 GA brushed SS case off of to make a new tank.