Quote Originally Posted by Rodsmachineshop View Post
I bought a nice cart to put my 250 on and put all the cooling stuff under it i can tell what you need cheap to build a water cooler i totaled like under 200 bucks to build my cooler and works great
Part of my requirements are that it is fairly portable, at 60lbs I can carry in one hand, not all day but I can bring it up out of my basement when needed. As a result I'll be getting an air cooled torch before I build a cooler, most of what I'll be doing will be below 100 amps.

When I do build a cooler I want to do something similar to the coolers on the CobraTig orbitals at work, they suck but I can improve the design. The main idea is that they attach to the base of the 250ex, I've been inside these things so many times and have a few ideas on how they could have made it better and cheaper.