Months back one of my shop guys disconected my machine torch on my ThermalDyn Cutmaster 81 melted the lead with a hot drop and shorted my torch out--more to repair than a new plasma. So I traded an AR-15 for a near new Hypertherm 1100 from a buddy and being that I didn't want to have the same scenario happen again I let him keep his hand torch and bought a smaller machine for hand cutting. While searching JAXED.com which searches craigslist nation wide instead of just city by city, I found a feller in Oregon who had a Hypertherm machine stick for sale. He told me it came off of a HT1250 and said it was a HT PAC135M for $485 with shipping. BING BANG BOOM here it is at my shop and now I stand here schratching my head...it doesn't match the quick connect plug into my 1100--WTF did I just buy??? I believe its a T100M for a HT 1650 or maybe an older 1250 and I'm back to square 1. Or, can this be adapted by an aftermarket adapter to my 1100? Also I have a Thermal Dynamics SL100 machine head has about 20 hours of cutting on it with a 25' lead--purchased new from AirGas and and a Thermal Dynamics SL100 hand torch 25'er (not the damaged one but one I bought used from AirGas before I found the box too expensive to repair) and am once again looking for a machine head to fit my HT1100 or a solution to the HT head I just received.
Anybody want to do some bartering, trading or good 'ol cash for any of these torches for a HT PAC135M? As you can see I am out quite a bit in torch heads...
Hypertherm torch stick help
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Hypertherm torch stick help
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