[TheForge] oxy-propane after all

[Jerry Frost]

It's been a couple years since I checked the price but 
everything's gone up. I'd pass on the special tank even 
if it wasn't $50. So, at the current price it'd only 
pay for itself twice over before you go through a 20lb. 
tank of propane. I'd still spend the bucks today, even 
if it only paid for itself once per 20lb. bottle of 
propane.

I have two oxy acet sets hanging in the Connex and have 
no intention of ever hooking them up. I used to have 
three but gave one away.

The All-States torch has a thumb valve so you don't 
need a gas saver. It's one of the ways it saves you 
consumables and time. You set the torch for whatever 
you're doing and turn it off. Once you have the work 
ready to cut, heat, braze, etc. you turn it on, do the 
work and shut it off. It's especially economical for 
repetitive operations.

You can speed it up even more by clipping either their 
electric igniter or the positive lead of a battery 
charger to the torch handle and the ground to the 
table. When you're ready to light up, you open the 
thumb valve and brush the tip against the table, the 
spark lights it up and away you go.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/

From: "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com>


> That is great info, Frosty, and makes the torch-work 
> outlook much brighter :)
> Too bad their torch costs so much -- too much for me 
> right now... I called and
> they quoted me $895 w/tank, $845 w/o, for the kit.
>
> Has anyone used oxy/propane torches from 
> smithequipment.com ?
>
> Also, any suggestions for a gas-saver?  I noticed 
> smithequipment has one...
> a nice hanger w/ pilot, or even just an idle circuit, 
> would work for
> me, I've seen
> some nice simple propane-forge idle circuits, which 
> use a ball valve
> for the throttle
> and a needle valve for the fine adjustment of the 
> idle level, in
> parallel.  Seems like
> an easy setup to build, and with the right tubing & 
> plumbing could be used on a
> torch too?
>
> ben
>