Re: Check yer water
- From: Kristian Ukkonen <kristian.ukkonen@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:42:25 GMT
Don Foreman wrote:
Last time I used my TIG on a very small job, I noted some steam.> ...
Uh-oh! Put a note on the torch to check that before using it again. I got around to checking. Pulled a line off the cooler. No flow. Uh
oh. Applied air pressure both directions. Cooler bubbled, air
Got everything put back together, which included unsnapping about 100
snaps on the leather shroud by prying each one with a screwdriver,
then resnapping with a big pair of pliers. Clean up mess -- yuk! Add
water to cooler reservoir. Took a gallon and a half of distilled
water. I guess it was a bit low. Don't know how that could have
happened since I filled it up in 1995...
I'm TIG'in again.
How about adding a flow switch to the return line,
so NEXT time it will alarm you about missing cooling
water flow.. Some TIG machines have input for such
switch, and switch off welding current when there's no
flow, but otherwise a solution would be to put a large
"buzzer" (that surplus air-ride -horn:) connected to the
flow switch, and/or a power-relay what allows power to the
TIG machine only when there is cooling water flow..
Kristian Ukkonen.
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