I don't think "annually" means what you think it means...

Just as tip from someone who used to be super obsessed with computer hardware: Fan brands make a huge difference. Arctic is pretty good, but if you really want quiet and long lasting, go for Noctua. Also, the bigger diameter the fan, the quieter it’s gonna be. Noctua sells a 200mm fan that has integrated anti-vibration pads as well as included cables, adapters, 4pin connector for PWM control, and loads of other extra bits and pieces.

petition to rename the channel to “This Old Tony 1000”

"Coolant change recommended annually, but I'll probably just do it the old fashioned way...."

I cant believe i just watched a 30 minute video about a torch cooler... and enjoyed every second of it!

Taxes-1000 Doesn't sound cool at all Tony.

Decibels are logarithmic so one db higher is a fair bit louder. "In terms of subjective loudness, a 1 dB change yields just over a 7% change."

I want to clarify something about the warning of using automotive antifreeze. It's not that it can't work, or definitely will damage the cooler. It's that there are a lot of different formulations out there, some of which might damage it. Either HTP could spend millions of dollars exhaustively testing every single antifreeze on the market and produce a list of compatible ones, or instead say that if you put something unapproved and untested in there, it's not their fault if it breaks.

My wife says i'm easily amused. Maybe watching a warrantee be voided confirms that.

That water leak gag >_

Just gotta say, I really appreciate the "got it for free" disclosure. Good on you man

You could rewire it, so that you have one (or two) fans running continuously and the other two connected to the switching system. You could even set up an internal switch so you could switch the two pairs, so that one set isn't running all the time. Nice mod.

I interviewed for a job at USA Weld. Jeff is a great guy. USA Weld is a small operation. Jeff works pretty hard with just a few other people to keep things going strong.

Tony, I watched all of your videos in order recently and rarely ever comment anywhere, but had to say: You make the best videos on KZfaq. I watch all the normal DIY/CNC/machining/fab channels and love watching them but when that notification says "This Old Tony Posted..." I literally stop what I am doing, get a fresh cup of coffee, turn off the alarms on all the CNCs and close my door to watch. Most of the others are 'background noise' while I program, but the nuances and annotations require and deserve my full attention. Just amazing and entertaining videos. Thank you for the work, thought and incredible amount of time you spend making these!!

Hey Tony, I agree with you about unnecessary shop noise, and wish my Everlast PowerTIG 255EXT shut off the fans between welds. However, I built my own cooler so this put me in charge of its noise. Aside from the usual carbonator pump, bypass regulator and motor shaft mods for the fan (same blade you have), I used a Sparkfun MicroView (Arduino compatible) microcontroller to manage it. It watches in/out temps & torch flow rate and turns off the motor when the torch is cool after welding. It also inhibits the foot switch command to the welder unless flow is OK. So far, I'm thrilled with it cuz my shop is quieter! I also had some uncommon chemical problems that were solved by outstanding support from StarBrite, the makers of Miller TIG coolant, so I'm a lifetime customer. By the way, I put an argon pressure switch in the command circuit so I "never" try to weld without gas coverage. I feel smarter already! Keep up the great work and even greater puns. You keep me ROFL

*Me thinking* "You're gonna hit the water tank with that drill. Yep! You....wait...you did that just to get us going.." lmao that's great.

Not ONE zip-tie. Color me impressed!

Man I just bought a table-1000 and it's the coolest table ever

Got me good when the water came back through that freshly drilled hole Tony geeze! Course I knew better, but still very funny and informative so thanks! There is no better way to learn than with humor😉 it’s proven.

I was drunk when I heard the "BUT I DI-JEST " Joke. Laffed til I was sober 😂😂😂

"doodie cycle" Thanks for the coffee spew!! Great video Tony!

Tony - I would have put the temperature sensor on the cold line. You shouldn't care how hot the hot is, only how cold the cold is. Suppose, for extremes, the cooler was sitting in an ice bath. Water going in might be 50'c, but water going out, and to the torch, is perhaps 15'c. That's fine, no need to turn on that fan. You only turn it on when the cool side can't be as cool as you want it to be anymore. Also, for minimum fan noise you want the largest blades possible. 4 small fans are far noisier than 1 large fan for the same air volume I believe. And, you could hook up a variable voltage to the fans so that they're nice and quiet (lower voltage = spin slower = quieter) until needed. Running a 12v fan at 9v makes it much quieter without being much weaker. Just my two cents. Interesting build.

So with fans bigger is always better. One big fan will push far more air far quieter than 4 small fans of a similar size. Always go as big as you can, giggity. The downsides being reliability, if one fan breaks you're looking at 75% cooling vs 0% cooling, and how uniform the airflow is which won't matter to pretty much anyone. Fan noise is mostly related to fan rotation speed, a 200mm fan might rotate at 300rpm vs a 100mm fan at 3000 rpm. That's the difference between putting your ear against it in a silent room and having a constant hum. If you can't change the size, more fans at a slower rotation is also a good way to go. My computer would have 8 fans, for example, all turning barely above their stall speed. That makes it absolutely silent in the dead of night with my ear against it. It also means when a fan died 2 years ago I've still not needed to get a new one and the sound is still very very quiet. Also quality makes a difference, mostly for noise. The airflow is less of a factor but there is a slight difference. Arctic fans are poor quality. The main difference is in bearing type. The bearings your fan has are sleeve bearings, very quiet at first but quickly rubs away the oil and becomes the noisiest. Ball bearings start off louder but are pretty consistent and are a great choice for anything but very light usage or regular replacements. Sleeve bearings are the cheapest. Fluid dynamic bearings (FDB) are the best of both worlds, using clever engineering to use an oil bearing but not lose effectiveness. Because the technique is patented it has a significant cost increase but they are my favourite. Non patent editions exist like rifle bearings but vary in performance usually just wanting the FDB market but with sleeve performance. Finally the fan shape makes a difference. Stepping away from the super intricate details and selling points, the important facet is the size of the blades vs the number. A higher number of small (thin) blades pushes a lot of air but can't handle pressure (restricted flow ie radiators). A lower number of large (wide) fan blades are less angled thus less flow but work far better for radiators. Large blades work with everything so are a safe bet, but if used correctly small blades can have double the flow (or more) for the same noise. A rule of thumb is larger blades for the way in to fight never-changed dust filters radiators and the intended overpressure, smaller blades on the way out as the air should be pressurised and already running out with nothing to resist it. Sometimes you'd want large blades for both like front and back of a radiator. Small blades for both is rarer. There you have the crash course in fans, more than you'd ever want to know.

These videos are awesome. Unreal how well done they are. Informative, fun, easy to watch, entertaining.... gotta be some of the best stuff ever

I’m a grown man and a little embarrassed to say the doodie cycle joke caught me off guard and is responsible for my first KZfaq related spit take 😂

Just for future reference Noctua make the best fans for low noise high performance and reliability. the NF-F12's are basically the best PC fans on the market.

I just lost a hand thanks to your experiment of lighting my hands on fire. Thanks Old Tony for the lesson learnt. You are a great educator :D

Thisoldtony made my eyes bulge for a second when I saw him drill the case and saw water come out. Jesus!

Hey Tony, nice gift and sweet mods! BTW, don't ya just hate it when the kids pinch the lines while your trying to pull off that Instagram worthy weld....

You are the BEST of all Tonys.

The rotating cooler pushing the 2.5 ⭐ review to the side was fantastic. I've seen all your videos countless times and find new things to enjoy every time I watch.

I ve been watching ur vids for a while now but, is it just me or when did ur sense of humor become so colorful...I enjoy all ur content serious or not..taking apart stuff is all I ever wanted to do in life. U are truly inspiring Tony.

"I don't want to end up with the music in me..." Emerson reference...." Most men live lives of quiet desperation and die with the music still in them."

This Old Tony, Very COOL! 😁 Just an FYI, every 3db of change either increases (doubles) or decreases (cuts in half) the volume you hear.

I must say, your sense of humor is awesome. How you add subtle things in your description and explanations not to mention visual effects that makes these videos very enjoyable to watch.

Love the sight gags in your videos. Wonderful cinematic work! Takes "talk to the hand" to a whole new level!

I knew it Tony is Santa Claus. They both sound the same and both have the same wedding ring 🤣

Oh, so we weren't good enough for you?!? You just *had* to go and *buy* yourself some fans...? ;)

Tony, I just found your channel and I can't get enough! The humor you add to the videos is priceless. You've got a new long time viewer!

Videos are HILARIOUS, informative and fantastically edited. You’re AMAZING! Keep it up! Seriously, I look forward to any video you put out!

I just found your channel the other day. Love the content, especially your smarrtassery and dry humor. Feckin’ brilliant buddy. Keep it up!

17:52 The PC fans with more blades are generally optimised for airflow rather than static pressure. IIRC, you want fans that are optimised for static pressure when pushing air into a heatsink or radiator.

Why have i JUST learned about this page this past week. Its such gold

The "doodie" cycle is without a doubt one of your best, cracked me right up good job old Tony.

Wait.. If your welding hand is cybernetic and demonstrably can cool down stuff you touch, why do you need a water cooled torch?

This old tony i like your vids, very informative also very good for anxiety and stress relief keep on keeping on and longer vids/projects are welcome

Ty. The subtle bits of wit and bs are great nugget of knowledge that should be take "annually" with meals. Love it. Thanks!

This channel is just something else! I really enjoy the work being done and the comedy that goes along with it. Keep up the good work! Just got yourself another subscriber!

Cool. I didn't know Hypertext Transfer Protocol could be used for cooling or welding. Wow. Virtually unreal. Now, about HTTPS:// ... Also, the Lambourghini dealer asked me to tell you that they're not sending you a car for Christmas... They're afraid you'll make it into a tractor.

To cool a radiator, the proper arctic fans would be the P series (P120 in your case), for the increased static Pressure

As a former industrial welder fabricator...I enjoy your videos and admire your knowledge also your craftsmanship...thank you for your videos.

im not sure if im here watching u for your skills or your jokes, i love them both

Nice video! The STC-1000 is extensively used in homebrewing to turn on a fridge when the fermenting beer gets too hot (or turn on a heating element when the beer gets too cold!). Too bad the delay time is 1 minute. An arduino solution would've been better, but the line voltage fan would be the most ideal option. Thanks for the video

Oh, to be a fly on the wall in Jeff's office tomorrow morning.

Hey Tony, i absolutely love your humour! Best explanation techniques to keep the students focused!

Being extremely new to the idea of learning how to weld, I will say that I never knew such a beast existed. Having seen this and having a rather lengthy computer tinkering background, I can tell you that this is not much more than a water cooling setup for a computer on steroids. I am relatively certain that one of these can be built from scratch, that would move water more efficiently, and quietly for a fraction of the price. The build that I would be referring to most likely would not work too well in most professional environments, but for the weekend warrior, like I am hoping to become, it would be more than adequate. But with this being gifted to you, you definitely can not beat the price of free. GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!

This video is class from start to finish thanks and well done ToT

Ok when you cracked the wife's phone screen i've had the best unexpected laught in a loong time, Have a subscription good sir!

Love watching your vids, Never boring, Always entertaining and informative, Many thanks, Keep up the good work ,

Mate, you are hilarious and very informative. I'm a 48 year old Australian and find myself giggling often watching your videos. Good job 😀 Your attitude is more realistic than others.

The iPhone clips on the microphone at around 87 dB. Anything louder than that will read as 87 dB.

Dear "Tony" guy Can you please stop making entertaining videos of tearing stuff apart so my husband will get back to his slavery... I mean chores. Thanks Mrs. Brady

TOT I love your video's, no face and you bring idiocracy to its best. (Mistakes that I have made in the past could have been avoided with your guidance). You show all of the mistakes that you and I have made and how to combat them. Or your show all of them so that other people can learn from them. Thank you for your time and effort. Your are so awesome. I have been needing to make a tig torch cooler for my tig for so long. I don't wanna spend the money and have been using my watercooled tig torch for ever. That being said. I just feed it with a water hose and the waste line goes out the back of my garage. Keep in mind though I just use my tig once in a blue moon. So it doesn't hurt my water bill. I would love to have this setup. Keep up the good work.

You never dissapoint. Love you style of presenting . Got to get me a gage or shop space. Have tons of hardware in a flat . So often upset the neighbours. Especially as I live in central London. 😂

I copyrighted "Slurpo". I'll be expecting my royalty check on February 31st.

11:45 *spits drink out while laughing*

Tony your videos are the best thing on the internet. Please don't ever stop.

That was a lot more fun than I was expecting. Thank you.

I have absolutely no plan to do any welding in my future, but just love your channel. Great videos and the voice over is fabulous. Thanks for putting in such a ton of effort into tour videos n

. Hey Tony (if that really is your name) - Love your channel, envy your skills. Not sure if someone already mentioned this: fan shrouds work to help decrease turbulence at the fan tips (which could be applied to the built-in aluminum fan) and thereby increase fluid (air) flow and reduce noise. Keep making awesome stuff!

I always enjoy your projects! Keep them up.

This guy's just THE BEST ... Love your videos so so much. Oh so very entertaining AND intelligent 👏👏👏

The buck Rogers reference made me lol

Good gosh, we've found the This Old Tony holy grail of Dad jokes! Top shelf Tony! (And I Digest)

I've watched this video several times by now, had missed the sound of the invisible torch hitting the bench every time until now, cracked me up.

I just want to tell you I love your videos and they are made perfect

Nice clip, well done! In my job i'm constructing lots of heating and cooling control systems, mostly as a retrofit as you did here. Some remarks: The thermo couple is getting cooled by the windchill from the fans, so it should be insulated to get a reliable measurement. Use a controler with two relais, one for the fans and the 2nd one for temperature alarm. Wire the 2nd one to the existing buzzer. Use normal instead of destilled water if you don't have the recommended antifreeze. If there is any aluminum in the waterlines, it will corrode immediately. The copper in the heat exchanger also doesn't like destilled water, but it will last longer than aluminum. And i have to agree to my preposter: If you have the time, fun and passion - and you don't get a cooler for free - it's really easy and cheap to build. Last but not least: If you are a technical freak, use an analog output on the controler and variable speed fans 😂

Thumbs up for Buck Rogers - "Twiggy"

I have several stc-1k units and you can set them so there is no delay between reading and triggering the relay. I think from memory it is option 3 if you hold down the set button. But you have probably already solved this or happy without changing things. Great video again

I installed a line voltage Brush-less Cooling fan on my cheapo Harbor Freight 90 Amp Welder and significantly improved the duty cycle and cooling. It was much quieter than the fan that came with it and pushed more air through the case.

Yay! New video!

Had a car one time that made wind noise thru the drivers window. Drove me crazy. Took it back to the dealer and guess what he said? Well, just turn up the radio....Maybe you need a bigger radio.

I take umbrage at un needed fan noise. So in 1991 my 1990 ish Millermatic 250 got a thermoswitch glued to the transformer. Awesomest mod! The fan never ran unless I was really welding something stout. I was pretty conservative on the temp. Around 100˚ F. I did the same thing a couple years ago to a cheap chinesium VFD. For a little device, it made a bunch of annoying noise that I didn't want to hear. A themoswitch got jammed between fins on the heat sink. This time I added a 500 Ω resistor across the thermoswitch which passed enough current to run the fan at low, near silent speed. The VFD is on my lathe. If I run it for some time or load it warms up enough the fan will come on full. When you stop the lathe it goes right back off after a minute. Yay.

Damn, you're absolutely right. I just scribbled "1000" on my fridge's door and the temperature inside immediately dropped by 10 degrees. Thanks for the tip

Great video as always Tony! 1) 3db = twice as loud. So 1 db is discernibly louder (re your angle grinders). 2) Different frequencies sound louder to the human ear even though they are the same loudness (db). So, perhaps your corded angle grinder was outputting higher frequencies which you perceive as louder. 3) Re #2 you can account for that by measuring using A-weighting on the phone if the app has it, or buy a sound level meter which has it. 4) You should be a bit more Tony when measuring your angle grinders by ensuring the noise output part (spinning disc? Motor?) is the same distance from the mic / phone (you were a bit lackadaisical on that in this video!)

That thing would be great for condensing moonshine.

Great vid and Mod Tony. You could maybe sit the motor up on vibration absorbing material to stop it reverberating through the chassis. Also you could press small copper pipe through the heatsink fins of the more case if the motor gets too hot.

Inspired me to make the same mod to my Bernard - Didn't measure dB pre and post, but, WOW! So much less like a B-52 takeoff roll. Thanks TOT

Not sure I like that one minute delay... seems backwards... like, run for one minute after we reach the low threshold.

is Jeff out of therapy yet ?

"...change the coolant annually, although I will probably just do it the old fashioned way..." Solid gold. Solid gold.

love this guys channel

Harbor freight water pump-40$ Marathon 1/2 hp motor-60$ Amazon radiator-30$ Tubing/fittings-10$ Something to hold water - probably free ..next weekend project in the works lol

Love your videos-1000

Your editing and sketch comedy is top notch.

Very entertaining video, thanks! You could use the sensor to get the liquid temperature just to know how the computer coolers compare with the old fan.

24:28 omg that was hilarious, especially when I was focused and not waiting :)

Liked this video right at the 45sec mark

I did something like this for the electroic speed control on my lathe. Added a bathroom over run timer as well. BobUK.

I have a Harbor Freight parts washer I modded, that uses 2 - 5 gallon pail baffle system I designed to remove the dirt and separate the oil from the cleaning fluid. It's basically a swirl filter to remove the dirt and a septic system type baffle to remove the oil / grease. I use straight simple green and since I live in Upstate NY and don't have a full time heated garage, I run an aquarium heater set at lowest temperature (45F) in the cleaned solution pail where BTW... the I moved the pump to and leave the heater and pump running during the winter. We have had temps way below freezing and it hasn't frozen yet... With no insulation around the pails or the washer. Plus the pump is super quiet... you don't hear it run and pumps a lot of solution, I can't run it full blast without it splashing all over. I added valves to control the in and out flows based on what I want it to do... soak or wash. Now that my prototype has been working perfect, for over a year and a half, going to change it to 2 - 10 gallon pails. You could use the same setup... The parts washer uses a small submersible pump. You could use the other side of your temperature sensor, and tap off one leg of the 220 to power them. Or just run a 110 cord to power them. Once the temp gets to freezing, the heater and the pump turns on. I think I'll get that temperature control you have and and add it to my system so I don't have to leave it running 24/7 during the winter just in case it drops below freezing... We have had weird weather lately... one day 50 next day 20.