Coolmate 1.3 first welds
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 1:38 pm
Picked up my Christmas present to myself, a Coolmate 1.3 and small runner cart. I wasn't sure if I should start a new thread because I am not a braggart but I had a hell of a time finding feedback on the cart and cooler so I thought maybe this would help others.
First on the cart. It's really expensive and my first instinct was to build my own but after pricing it out even with crappy harborfreight components, I really wouldn't be saving a lot of money and it wouldn't be as compact since I wouldn't put in the effort to make it fit the Dynasty as well as the Miller cart. So I bit the bullet and boy am I glad I did. It's really worth it. It's very well made, the sheet metal is heavy gauge, so are the tubular frames and it comes preassembled on a palette (excessive but cool, and extra impressive that cyberweld can ship it truck freight for free). The coolmate and dynasty bolt into it like one monolithic unit adding barely any bulk dimensionally.
Onto the cooler. The manual is silly how bad it is. It's mostly dedicated to telling you not to drink the coolant or get electrocuted. There are a couple of vague diagrams for hookup and one table telling you what coolant to use and how often to change it and the filter.
I got the CK CK225SF FX 25 foot torch, I highly recommend it, truly excellent. It's more compact than my Weldcraft flex 9 even though it's a watercooled torch and the hoses are delightful - very pretty, color coded and they don't kink and drag on each other.
The torch hooks up to the gas outlet directly. The dinse connector, also a CK unit I got (SLWHAT-35, also excellent quality), connects to the cooler hot inlet, and the torch hot hose connects to it. Then the torch cold hose goes to the cooler.
It was my first time turning it up to full jam. I had to stop and start my coupon because my filler hand was cooking and I had to change position. Made a 1/4" alu coupon weld, on both sides, torch never even got warm. I started at full jam and then progressively backed off.
The cooler is very quiet. The Dynasty CPS fires it up only when needed and it's barely louder than the Dynasty fan. I was a bit concerned about how loud it would be, I heard people complaining about how loud the Coolmate 1 is and other coolers (again, part of the reason I'm making this thread - I didn't find any videos of a running 1.3). Not a concern with the 1.3
In summary, I'm in love. If you can swing it, get it. Feel free to fire off any questions if you're interested in getting one but can't find any information like me, I will do my best to answer.
A video of it running and some pics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Q2IdMLlM8
First on the cart. It's really expensive and my first instinct was to build my own but after pricing it out even with crappy harborfreight components, I really wouldn't be saving a lot of money and it wouldn't be as compact since I wouldn't put in the effort to make it fit the Dynasty as well as the Miller cart. So I bit the bullet and boy am I glad I did. It's really worth it. It's very well made, the sheet metal is heavy gauge, so are the tubular frames and it comes preassembled on a palette (excessive but cool, and extra impressive that cyberweld can ship it truck freight for free). The coolmate and dynasty bolt into it like one monolithic unit adding barely any bulk dimensionally.
Onto the cooler. The manual is silly how bad it is. It's mostly dedicated to telling you not to drink the coolant or get electrocuted. There are a couple of vague diagrams for hookup and one table telling you what coolant to use and how often to change it and the filter.
I got the CK CK225SF FX 25 foot torch, I highly recommend it, truly excellent. It's more compact than my Weldcraft flex 9 even though it's a watercooled torch and the hoses are delightful - very pretty, color coded and they don't kink and drag on each other.
The torch hooks up to the gas outlet directly. The dinse connector, also a CK unit I got (SLWHAT-35, also excellent quality), connects to the cooler hot inlet, and the torch hot hose connects to it. Then the torch cold hose goes to the cooler.
It was my first time turning it up to full jam. I had to stop and start my coupon because my filler hand was cooking and I had to change position. Made a 1/4" alu coupon weld, on both sides, torch never even got warm. I started at full jam and then progressively backed off.
The cooler is very quiet. The Dynasty CPS fires it up only when needed and it's barely louder than the Dynasty fan. I was a bit concerned about how loud it would be, I heard people complaining about how loud the Coolmate 1 is and other coolers (again, part of the reason I'm making this thread - I didn't find any videos of a running 1.3). Not a concern with the 1.3
In summary, I'm in love. If you can swing it, get it. Feel free to fire off any questions if you're interested in getting one but can't find any information like me, I will do my best to answer.
A video of it running and some pics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Q2IdMLlM8
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