Newbie question!!!

[Jw2cv]

Morning all. New here

Im james, got my first welder, after half an hour managing this now

Not bad for a first timer if i may say so!

Now my question is - i was given my welder by my uncle - it after some fettling works fine - id like to replace the torch as the feed and gas pipe pop out sometimes and its a bit mickey mouse. And all the wires etc too short. The other day i was feeding in a new roll of wire and found it to had come out the gap between the switch and the housing. Straight into my finger. Ouch.

Also held together with cable ties!!

I bought this on ebay, http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=300796424110&globalID=EBAY-GB

But it has two wires for the switch (brown wire i assume to be live and blue to be negative..)
Me old sealey only has one wire going up to the switch - brown. Again i assume thats live... What / where do i put the blue wire to get this new torch fitted..?

It hasn't arrived yet but will come monday ...

Would assume the switch isn't 240v?

Newbie confused!!

 

[Jw2cv]

After looking at the machine - assume that blue wire is an earth , the 24v gas flow switch in the machine earths off (live is on the same circuit) onto something .. Would doing that work??

Cheers in anticipation!.

 

[shenion]

If the new torch has 2 trigger wires but the old only has one; connect one of the new trigger wires to the large power lead to the torch.

 

[Jw2cv]

Ok, thanks :-)

Shall do that..!

S'pose it doesn't matter which one i connect..

Thanks :-)

 

[Jw2cv]

Will that work? I thought the torch is live?

 

[shenion]

If the torch has one trigger wire, you will see that the switch connects the wire to the torch body (that is connected to the main power wire.)

 

[Jw2cv]

Oh yes of course.
Sorry my mistake

Thanks.

 

[wheresmejumper]

a longer torch might have been a better buy?