Cart before the horse

[footboarder]

Would it be possible to attach a different torch to the cable, gas and water lines?

[performance]

Can you clarify your statement? What different torch to what cable? what gas?...etc?

[footboarder]

Performance. . . . I would like to salvage the water hoses, the gas hose and the conductor cable and put a 'regular' torch head on these. This should be possible, hopefully. Do you know where I can locate consumables online for the 24W?

[Rugar]

Here are parts and consumables for the wp24.
http://www.arc-zone.com/index.php?ma..._727_20_48_210

Are you sure that this is what you bought? In your original post you said you had a 180amp water cooled torch. The wp24 is a 80amp air cooled torch.

[jakeru]

Slip the handle off the torch head, and you will see connectors under the handle where the cables connect with the torch head. Just get a replacement torch head that matches the connectors on your cables, and the torch head should be a direct swap.

Be careful not to exceed the current carrying capability of your leads, or you can melt the insulation. (Which is really bad news; see pic for a one-piece aircooled hose that got melted from exceeding the cable's current&duty cycle.)

Weldcraft shows the same part numbers for the gas, water, and power hoses of the WP-24W as they show for the WP-20, so you should be able to swap a WP-20 torch head onto those WP-24 cables.
http://www.weldcraft.com/pdfs/WP24ENG_1.pdf
http://www.weldcraft.com/pdfs/WP20ENG.pdf

[footboarder]

Jakeru . . . . thanks so much for the assistance. . .charlie

[footboarder]

The torch and hoses I purchased are WELDMARK, not Weldcraft. Mine is the 24W-25. It is listed as 180 amps. I'm having a heck of a time locating comsumables for this small torch. In Jodys videos he said he liked a smaller torch and was going to get a #7. Any idea of what brand and part number for this torch?