Skylinerd1
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Just arrived today and setup and done some welding with it.
Expensive ASF. But it is nice. It came with a ceriated tungsten and an extra long trigger switch for the torch which I fitted straight away.
This is the smallest tig torch kemppi sells now 130amp at 40% which is plenty for exhaust manifolds out of 1.6mm stainless which is 95% of what I do.
Machine is old MLS2300 (I still like it and unless it blows up or a new one comes up for sale second hand cheap doubt I will bother with the new lcd version).
Plugged this thing in and automatically my water cooler is turned off just by the torch wiring. Really impressed with how kemppi does their water coolers. Lots of safety built in so they are unlikely to destroy themselves by overloading from blockages and so on.
Compared to my old TTW250W tig torch (250amp watercooled) which I had been gritting and putting up with on dairy tube for years now this thing is so much nicer and allows alot more manipulation of the torch without wearing your wrists out.
First torch iv seen with a flexible rubber body as the handle which is great.
Its a flex head which is the only thing i'll probably change in the future but I'll see how long this flexi head lasts.... Kemppi literature suggests only the TX165 torch can take the swivel style head but I reckon I can make that chit fit this one.... ; )
Fitted a CK Wp9 style gas lens kit and did minor mods with scotch brite (I do the stainless ring and scotch brite to all my big ceramic cups so they dont smash when dropped and it acts as extra gas smoothers but obviously useless at anything over 80amps). I can run this setup at 15lpm (up each side of stainless tube but on the top when its still hot I need about 18lpm otherwise it goes to chit on me due to the heat convection pushing the gas away so will change my sequence weld the top first and then the sides next time and see if I can run the gas at 15lpm that way.....) So this setup is using a bit less gas than my water cooled torch on the 26 style standard ceramic cup which was slightly smaller dia cup than this one which I had to run at 18 to 22LPM!! So less gas use means more money in my pocket!!
Pics:
Im not aiming for 100% pure no colour welds these are ex manifold not space X rockets. IMO unless its Titanium thats just wasting gas. And even for titanium on an exhaust its still a ***** waste of gas... But thats just the scotsman in me.
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Expensive ASF. But it is nice. It came with a ceriated tungsten and an extra long trigger switch for the torch which I fitted straight away.
This is the smallest tig torch kemppi sells now 130amp at 40% which is plenty for exhaust manifolds out of 1.6mm stainless which is 95% of what I do.
Machine is old MLS2300 (I still like it and unless it blows up or a new one comes up for sale second hand cheap doubt I will bother with the new lcd version).
Plugged this thing in and automatically my water cooler is turned off just by the torch wiring. Really impressed with how kemppi does their water coolers. Lots of safety built in so they are unlikely to destroy themselves by overloading from blockages and so on.
Compared to my old TTW250W tig torch (250amp watercooled) which I had been gritting and putting up with on dairy tube for years now this thing is so much nicer and allows alot more manipulation of the torch without wearing your wrists out.
First torch iv seen with a flexible rubber body as the handle which is great.
Its a flex head which is the only thing i'll probably change in the future but I'll see how long this flexi head lasts.... Kemppi literature suggests only the TX165 torch can take the swivel style head but I reckon I can make that chit fit this one.... ; )
Fitted a CK Wp9 style gas lens kit and did minor mods with scotch brite (I do the stainless ring and scotch brite to all my big ceramic cups so they dont smash when dropped and it acts as extra gas smoothers but obviously useless at anything over 80amps). I can run this setup at 15lpm (up each side of stainless tube but on the top when its still hot I need about 18lpm otherwise it goes to chit on me due to the heat convection pushing the gas away so will change my sequence weld the top first and then the sides next time and see if I can run the gas at 15lpm that way.....) So this setup is using a bit less gas than my water cooled torch on the 26 style standard ceramic cup which was slightly smaller dia cup than this one which I had to run at 18 to 22LPM!! So less gas use means more money in my pocket!!
Pics:
Im not aiming for 100% pure no colour welds these are ex manifold not space X rockets. IMO unless its Titanium thats just wasting gas. And even for titanium on an exhaust its still a ***** waste of gas... But thats just the scotsman in me.
