[TheForge] Re: Petrogen torch yak

[debmiller at fuse.net]

Makes on think............
125,000 BTU/gal versus propane at 91,600 BTU/gal.

You are looking at something like 35% MORE btu content per gallon, and pricing locally has gasoline around $1.90 per gallon, and propane is still under $1 per gallon. Then with the added cost of oxygen, I don't think you can compare them. Plus there are all the issues of combustion by products with liquid fuels versus propane or natural gas for a forge.

It would make a really big flame, however!!!

Ray Miller
Cincinnati

> 
> From: DBendall at webtv.net (Dave Bendall)
> Date: 2004/08/20 Fri AM 09:39:34 EDT
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Petrogen torch yak
> 
>      I have a stupid question that no one else has asked yet, but I bet
> has occured to others on this list. Could you somehow 'slow down' a
> Petrogen torch some, and use it as a burner in a gas forge? Or would it
> still just cut a hole through the bottom? If some one got this to work,
> they'd have fuel available pretty much everywhere. Also, I was wondering
> if it would still work if you used compressed air in it instead of
> Oxygen. That would simplify things. 
>      I'm not interested in this for myself, I like poking at a coal fire
> too much, but I know you gas forge folks are always figuring ways get
> your forges tweaked just a leetle bit hotter or cheaper or something.
>  
>      Dave Bendall in Phoenix
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