[TheForge] cheap heat - burners, etc.

[Ralph Sproul]

    Hi Mike, I'll chose item number one and three.............. and ask a
couple questions on the rest.  :-)

1) "would anyone like to discuss what lies beyond gas burners?"  .........my
approach was to put burners outside the forge - and use them on the
table(large items) or towards a vice or bracket (small items).   If you look
at lugging large stock in and out of the forge - why bother?  Well, you
either need a large rosebud (which takes a lot of oxy/acet ) or you consider
using the somewhat windproof sidewinder burner and just use the thing on the
table facing  a firebrick instead of trying to lug heavy items to and from a
fixed firebox.   For smaller items pointing a burner at a vice or bracket to
reforge hardware/fasteners......is a neat approach to saving fuel with an
oxy acetylene torch (even when using a gas saver).  You don't have to do a
treadle type thing - you just keep a slow burner heating multiples and keep
working at them.

I'm skipping right over number 2 cuz I don't have a clue what a TM2000 lens
is.

Now for number 3 - If you go with a propane oxygen torch - you can find used
torches, then get a propane regulator new for $25 ........and you can do a
lot of torch heating, cutting,  and brazing with propane as a fuel as
compared to acetylene.  The only thing I dont' think you can do is gas/torch
weld with propane - but some folks are telling me they got really cool
torches with mixing tubes (and flominators in their fribulators and all that
stuff that makes them work) ..........is just I don't own one yet - cuz the
old ones keep working.

Now what is a "Sans Acetylene"?  I haven't heard that term yet either.

Is a "do it yourself" brazing hearth a forge?  If that in fact is what DIY
stands for?

Ralph
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> There is nothing wrong with off topic posts; they are just filler
material
> that gets swept into the vacuum left by the absence of on-topic
discussions :-)
>
> So, would anyone like to discuss what lies beyond gas burners? Gentle
hint:
> This discussion would naturally head straight into torch country.
>
> Does anyone wish to discuss burner goggles, and how to make an end run
> around TM 2000 lenses?
>
> Wear and how to buy brazing torches that don't require a thousand dollars
> worth of oxyacetylene equipment?
>
> How to get a hot flame sans acetylene?
>
> DIY brazing hearths?
>
> Just some thoughts. Pick a subject from the list or start a different
thread.
> Mike P.
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