[TheForge] Recommendations on gas welding set

[Jerry Frost]

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From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk@thegrid.net>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Recommendations on gas welding set


> Frosty, How much oxy does the allstate torch go through?
> With my big cobbled together propane rosebud, it really sucks up the oxy
> and offsets the cheapness of the propane  some..........Pete F
>


The All States torch uses half as much oxy per task as an oxy acet torch.
Propane conversions typically use twice as much as it does running acet.
This is because acet regs can't be adjusted low enough.

The All States propane regulator has no adjustment, it's a metering valve
and automatically provides the correct amount of propane depending on the
oxy flow. There are adjustment valves on the torch body but you set them
from a chart, fine tune the flame, then shut it off with the thumb valve
except when you're using it.

This is from memory so may be off. One 20 lb bottle of propane it the
equivalent in heating, cutting, etc. as 12+ 135 cu/ft bottles of acet and
will use 12 full size bottles of oxy where the acet will use 24, if properly
set.

Another real advantage of a propane torch, at least here where air travel is
often the only way. You can buy propane virtually anywhere, you can even use
a bernzomatic type bottle and it lasts a LONG time, almost as long as a 135
cu/ft acet bottle. Oxy is no problem but try getting an acet bottle on an
passenger plane some time.

Frosty
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