Welding Tips and Tricks

Iceax wrote:Hi Nice repair of your tig cooler in the syncrowave
Where did you get your motor and pump I am crossing the help code as well !
Thanks
Charlie

The pump and motor arrived as an assembly from ebay. I think it was removed from a microchip manufacturing machine. ~50psi seemed to be a safe range for torches.

Hi,
New to the forum-

I found this googling information on the 06-07 Syncrowave with the integrated cooler. I picked one up for cheap and opened it up to examine the interior. Looks like the previous owner removed the part # 215776 Valve, 24Vdc 2Way Custom Port 1/8 Orf - i noticed because the two black lines from the mollex connector were cut near where the water in/out panel is on the bottom of the machine. I spent a while talking to Miller trying to determine what this part was that was missing, but only found it from your resto pictures.

Do you have any more process pictures of the area behind the water cooler in/out where the two black sensor wires connect to the valve (that n my machine is missing).

Any idea why this would have been removed? Thanks

I'm guessing someone canned both water check valves and the gas valve after the attached gas panel broke. What the manual doesn't detail is the sensing coil molded in to the panel(part#215691). This has the two black leads that plug into the molex. Mine was broken and found a new one for $20. Don't overthink the sensing coil if you can't find a new panel. It is magnet wire on a bobbin, aka. air inductor, that surrounds the cold water fitting. You can likely forget about using check valves and plumb the torch in with standard water, forward/reverse threaded, hose barbs. This still leaves the need for the gas valve if it is missing. This is the blue cylinder with white wire.

Congrats on the find if everything else is working well. You should be able to download the technical manual for your serial number on the miller site.