[TheForge] allstate oxy-propane torch

Andy Vida osan at netlabs.net
Mon Aug 16 15:36:46 EDT 2004



James Binnion wrote:
> 
> Hi Terry,
> 
> I found that site as well but it is the only one that I found that
> has the ratio of 1:5 that you posted  for Acetylene Oxygen all the
> others list a ratio of 1.1:1 for actual torch usage or the
> theoretical of  ratio of 2.5 : 1 .  And your chemistry data also
> agrees with the 2.5:1 info not the 1:5 listed in the chart So I
> belive that they have a typo in their chart.
> 

	This sounds more like it.  21.5 times the amount of oxygen
	seemed way out of whack.  Less than twice the amount is
	certainly plausible in my tiny mind.


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