Wamsutta
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What is the purpose of those Ruffles potato chip ridges on the handle?
Miller Air Cooled TIG Torches
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finn
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Keeps your hands away from the hot body. They also act as a heat sink of sorts to draw heat from the thin neck where your fingers go.
rlitman
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They work well to zip tie your cable sleeve and/or fingertip control in place. But my best guess is they're just copying (or rebranding) old Weldcraft designs.
finn
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Miller bought Weldcraft in 2013.
cvairwerks
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Also makes it easier to maintain the orientation of the head. Gloves on smooth surfaces have a much easier time of slipping.
rlitman
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I guess it might make it easier to roll the torch head between your fingers without choking up (or down), but I for one would prefer transverse ribs. The thing is though that I always end up using a cover on my cable, and that gets tied on over the hard plastic tube in question, so I for one couldn't say I've ever noticed feeling those ribs on my torches when I used Weldcraft, or noticing their absence after I switched to CK.
I do think that since the tops of the ribs are glossy, they'd offer less friction to a gloved hand than the knurls or textures found on the competition's products, but that only comes into play when they're exposed.
Doozer75
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Pleasure.What is the purpose of those Ruffles potato chip ridges on the handle?
-Doozer