[TheForge] Foundry heat source

Andrew Vida osan at netlabs.net
Sun Feb 11 11:51:49 EST 2007



xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:

> I bought one of those Harbor Freight weed burners years ago for 
> preheating stuff for welding.  About a year after I got it, it evidently 
> started leaking around the trigger.  Small leak that went unnoticed 
> until one day the tip ignited the leaking gas and the whole unit started 
> to burn along with my sleeve.   No injury other than missing arm hair, 
> and a little more excitement than I wanted that morning.

	I think I'd have paid money I don't have to see that one.


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