The torch and connector I got.

 

Here is the 5/8" x 18 LH adapter:

http://www.arc-zone.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_219&products_id=2515

It adapters to 1/4"NPT. From there you can get all the stuff from home depot to adapt to a garden hose.

Remember, don't open the faucet full blast. :nono:

All the need is a trickle of water. Full blast will blow up the torch.

kidtigger24

 

Remember, don't open the faucet full blast. :nono:
All the need is a trickle of water. Full blast will blow up the torch.
kidtigger24

Mine is on full blast.
You used it before...............

...zap!

 

Just what I was looking for. That should do the trick.

 

I put a picture of how one of my set ups looks. You can make the water go either way, perhaps the other way is better. That is the same block for a the 18 and 20 water cooled torches.

You won't blow anything with normal 50 or so psi water pressure. Small tubes cah take quite a bit of pressure and if anything fails it is when the water isn't going and turns to steam. I blow mine out with 90 to 100 psi air when done most of the time.

Fran

 

I used to weld at a shop with an old miller big 40. The water cooler set up on that was a lawn fountain pump submerged in a bucket with a return line. Very high tech, but I welded heavy alumn. and steel with it for over a year with no issues

 

I bet there wouldn't be too much of a difference in psi from full open to partially open. You're going from 3/4" hose to less than 1/4". I'm not sure how that affects pressure. I'll be posting up any problems I have.

 

I used the garden hose method for a while.

I have a CK 20 torch as well. They call for 1 liter of coolant flow a minute. Turn your hose up until your output end can fill a 1 quart mason jar in just under a minute and youre GTG.

I got my garden hose to NPT at HD, and the LH female tig fitting online.

 

My water pressure here can get up to 100 psi or more sometimes (I'm down in a low spot). If I run the water full blast I get to much water out and since I drain it out in the drive it makes a mess. But if I try to regulate it with a valve it gets touchy and I've ruined a cable that way once. Thus I use a camper type water pressure regulator on mine. It works great giving me more than enough water for my little Dynasty 200 machine without making a big mess and wasting water.

I know I've put up a picture of my setup on here somewhere but I've not got time to track it down right now.

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. I gotta get me one of those fittings.

 

I got all of my fittings at Lowes... also got some clear reinforced hose there.

 

10/4 I'll go check at Lowes tomorrow.

 

The shop I worked at for the past 27 years used tap water and just let it go down the drain. We got a new Lincoln invertec that came with the chiller.
The tap water setup worked flawlessly.
I recently learned that tap water set up may not be a good idea. The reason is that some water that is high in minerals can start to deposit the minerals inside the wetted areas (areas that water touches). The mineral deposits can inhibit the cooling ability of the water, watertight overheating the torch head.
That was not my experience. Depends on your water.
I recently bought a tig machine and have an air cooled and water cooled torch.
I plan on finding a small radiator , fan and a water pump to make a chiller.

Randy

 

Well I've finally got all the pieces together for my water cooled setup. Got the dinse connector from miller4less.com and the 2 lefthand 5/8" to 1/4" from arczone.com. Also got a few things from the hardware store.

The only leak I have is from the garden hose to the water in line but that should be an easy fix and I'll also put a swivel in so I won't have to twist the hose up when connecting it.

 

My uncle use to be a great water treatment guy until he blew his back out. Normal tap water is horrible to use because most of it contains a very high amount of iron, you know, the brown stuff all around the toilet and bath tub. If you have city water, that is the worst because it contains a lot of crap (chlorine, and stuff)plus high iron, maganese, and others, in it because it is cheaper to use crap to treat water then actual filters.

The best to use is either treated water, with a iron remover (solids and dissolved) and a neutralizer to control PH, or to use a cheap bottled water because they don't add things like mag to make you thirstier.

 

He is running it through a brass torch head. The fittings are brass. The hoses are usually a poly of some sort or vinyl.

Your concerns are valid if he were loading up his water cooler. A torch head doesn't cost jack.

Edit: I didn't even think about the deposit aspect of it. I was thinking about erosion and corrosion. So my apologies to Country Metals. You DO have a valid point.

 

Hopefully it will last quite a while. Once I get a few good paying jobs I'll pick up a cooler and another torch, then use this one for portability.