more cooler

[worntorn]

I have a job coming up that involves tig welding some 1/4 al. plate so I couldn't wait any longer for the cooler. Fortunately Duncan has stock of them right now.

I saw an earlier thread where a customer was unhappy with the length of the water tubes that come with the torch. As it is, the water hose stub on the dinse is way too short to reach the cooler connection, even if the cooler sits alongside the welder.
I think someone poked a little fun at the customer for complaining because this is such an easy fix. The only fix I can see is to scab a piece onto the hose. Easy enough, but a little untidy.

The customer was right on this one, the line should be left extra long. I suspect someone at the factory or at Everlast has figured this out too because the optional 25' WP 20 torch I ordered has a plenty of length left on the dinse hose whereas the WP 18 that came with the welder has the short stub on the dinse, as though the maker thought the setup was for a gas-through -dinse like the aircooled torches are.

Small thing maybe, but the closer to plug and play that things are, the better I think. Especially when the only requirement to make it work is to cut off a little longer piece of hose at the factory. I suspect it is probably not all that easy to communicate little nuances like this to the supplier.

One question for Mark or Mike or anyone else who knows the answer:

Should the cooled water from the outlet be connected to the dinse or to the water tube which runs up to the torch?
I thought the dinse made sense but then I rethought that. Perhaps the coolest water should find its way to the torch head first(where the greatest heat is) via the tube then flow back down cooling the cable? Or does it matter?

One other item I'll need to do is to permanently mark the tube which connects to the argon output on the machine. It would be easy enough in the heat of battle to accidentally connect the water tube up to argon and the argon line to water, they look identical and have the same couplers. The result might not be good!

Glen