[TheForge] WHICH Harris torch for propane? (was: All States propane torch)

[Jerry Frost]

REV Frost?

Demand regulator jibes with Meter, The All States meters the propane 
flow as needed. Demand regulator sounds like the same thing to me. 
Meters the flow is how Lyle explained it to me.

Rev?

Jer


On 7/17/2013 5:55 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> Hey Rev Frost:
> The 450,000 BTU is presumably per hour,  and comes from the AS promo video on their site.
> Poking around the web, most rosebud ratings i saw were about 1/2 that.
> The site refers to the propane regulator as a "demand regulator", if i remember right.
> But i think most all pressure gas regulators are demand regulators, like SCUBA regulators.
> I'm not sure what the difference is between that and what you refer to as a propane"meter" is.
> Help me on that please.
> Clyde's Harris guy didn't seem bothered about the difference
> and Jim Binnion seems satisfied with his 2 stage reg.
> Does it really need to be a special regulator to work optimally?
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> On Jul 17, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
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> The only gaugeless reg is the propane meter, though the oxy only has a little popup gauge and is set by a vernier. When you say 450,000BTU in what time is that? You hear a lot of marketing jazz that doesn't really stand up, for example, saying your furnace burner puts out 100,000BTU doesn't mean anything unless it's 100,000BTUs/hr.  Of course I may have just missed it, I haven't been following the thread very closely. I've been waiting for the BONANZA!! to jump in. <grin>
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> Truth is Propane has more BTUs than folk think, it isn't as HOT as acet but it has more BTU's /gl. I know I can crank my propane forge to melt the fire brick liner hot and keep it there for 6-7 hrs on less than 2 gl. of propane and that's running atmospheric air, not oxy. The hard fire brick I use is 3,000f+ working temp and I can melt it in my forge. My rose bud will slag it in a few seconds, the surface ripply, glassy and being blown around by the flame while the the heat hasn't penetrated 1/2".
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> Sometimes I wish I'd taken that dealership when Lyle offered it, I might've been able to answer some of this without speculating so much. Oh well, I'll continue to watch and hope for the best.
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