[TheForge] burners and other addictions

[Bruce Freeman]

Mikey,
Would it work to have the excess carbon in the welding rod?  A readily available high-carbon material is cast iron.  Could you weld steel with a cast-iron rod and a propane flame?
Bruce
NJ 
(who only fire welds)

>>> michael.a.porter at comcast.net 3/18/2006 8:51:09 PM >>>
Frosty,
OK, I should have said weld well enough to be certified. It isn't just the
intense heat available from an oxyacetylene flame that's needed, but also
the excess carbon in the flame, for acceptable steel welds. Mind you, if
someone can come up with a way around the problem, I would be the first to
applaud it. I may do some experiments mixing carbon into flux this summer
just to see if the "wall" can be breached somehow, as I would dearly love to
move acetylene clear out of the must have category.
Mikey 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Frost
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 5:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] burners and other addictions

I don't recall anything about investors but I didn't spend a lot of time on 
the site. I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same folk though.

My All States oxy/propane torch welds. Not terribly well admitedly, the 
velocity of the flame is so high it blows the puddle around too much, but it

does weld. I have a lot better alternatives so don't weld with it.

Still.

Frosty
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it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
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Meadow Lakes, AK.

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From: "Mike Porter" <michael.a.porter at comcast.net>


> Frosty,
> This torch is beginning to sound familiar. There was such a torch being 
> advertised on some UK site several years ago. As I recall, they were 
> looking for 'investors' (which in my view would be spelled somewhat 
> differently, beginning with an "s" as well as ending with one). And, you 
> should know that the only gas that will weld steel is acetylene, because 
> of all the free carbon it has available.
> Mikey
> 
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