[TheForge] oxygen-gasoline/diesel/kerosine

[terry l. ridder]

hello

i happened to stumble across the web site for http://www.petrogen.com
which manufactures a cutting torch which uses liquid fuel. This reminds
me of the coleman camp lights. kerosine or gasoline or coleman fuel in
the bottom and you pumped up the pressure. the liquid went into a
vaporizer which allowed the gas to flow to the mantels.

these units are expensive. other than the oxygen cylinder and regulator
everything else would be replaced with the new liquid fuel equipment.

how much cutting would a person have to be doing to be able
to recover the cost of the new equipment over using oxygen-acetylene,
oxygen-propane, oxygen-propylene, oxygen-propane-propylene-mix.

Would not the excess hydrogen in the flame cause welds to be brittle?
Gas welding i normally go with oxygen-acetylene.

for large jobs demolition jobs use broco exothermic rods.
thermal lance.


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terry l. ridder ><>