[TheForge] repairing silver

[Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer]

At 07:30 AM 1/12/02, you wrote:
>The cute tiny torches require very stable regulators at low preessure, 
>much like the Henrob( dillon)torch..preferably special 2 stage regs...

Or they will drive you nuts.....and crosseyed..........Pete F


>Roy Wilson wrote:
>
> >         Use a real jeweler's torch.  I've got some insanely small
> > orifice head for my oxy/acet that supposedly will work (00000 or
> > some such).  It doesn't.  Just getting it LIT is next to
> > impossible, controlling the flame requires an act of god.
>
>         The smallest orifice on my Little Torch is a zero, which
>         gives a 0.003" orifice.  That is damned small and I can
>         tell you that Rpy is right when he says it's trouble just
>         getting it lit.  But when you need a small point source of
>         heat, these are great.  They use ruby inserts for the orifice
>         so that heat expansion will not alter flame size.
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