On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:01 AM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote: > If you were creative enough, you could set up propane or mapp gas with a > compressed air setup instead of the small oxygen tanks. Compressed > atmospheric air is just about as good. I have a torch like this that we just > cut the hose, and attached to the air compressor.... > thus giving you a limitless supply of air, and you just have to replace the > Mapp gas tanks. Heck my jewelry studio is run on compressed air and natural > gas.... > It's plenty hot enough for most things, and it's just about as close as you > can get to limitless. > > I still recommend the $50 homedepot setup. It's hot. > > -Craig
Thanks for the pointers guys. Craig I know what you mean. Where I apprenticed repairing horns and making trombone bells, the owner had an air compressor + propane setup for silver and bronze brazing. For various reasons, I won't be setting up anything like that, or oxy/acetylene, here. Still, that setup worked fine. I'll likely swap in my the somewhat "unknown" used lower control arm. Cheers, Neil. |
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