[TheForge] Re: Burning Metal

[Harland Johnson]

I have a carbon arc attachment for my arc welder that I always  used   as an
alternative to a rose bud to heat  metal.   They way that I used it was to
set the welder to something like 290 amps,  adjust the carbon holder until
the two carbons almost touched and made an arc .. and then thumb the carbon
arc gap wider for heat.  I thought that it was my best way of getting
something hot that won't fit in a forge.  My carbon arc attachment is "old"
in that , I first  remember my father using it in the 1950s 

Reading  and learning from the "burning metal" thread, it appears that a
carbon arc is also a way of cutting steel.  Anyone care to enlighten me? 

Thanks 

Dann Johnson