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This document specifies safety and construction requirements for torches used for arc welding and allied processes. This document is applicable to manual, mechanically guided, air-cooled, liquid-cooled, motorized, spool-on and fume extraction torches. In this document, a torch consists of the torch body, the cable-hose assembly and other components. This document is also applicable to a cable-hose assembly connected between a power source and ancillary equipment. This document is not applicable to electrode holders for manual metal arc welding or air-arc cutting/gouging. NOTE 1 - Typical allied processes are electric arc cutting and arc spraying. NOTE 2 Other components are listed in Table A.1. NOTE 3 - In this document, all procedures and requirements are the same for "torches" and "guns". For convenience "torch" has been used in the following text.