clare, at, snyder.on.ca wrote:

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:40:18 -0800, Eric R Snow
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:25:10 -0800, Grant Erwin
wrote:

I had to take apart a flimsy old cast iron camp stove today. Fifty year old
steel screws/nuts holding the cast iron top onto flimsy sheet metal. I tried
half-heartedly to unscrew them, but I knew they wouldn't budge. I would have dug
out the air chisel but I wanted to save the cast iron top to use to hold up my
lead pot over a Mike Porter burner. So I dug out the O/A torch and flushed off
the 12 offending screws in a jiffy. Knocked off a little slag and the top is
ready for the bead blaster.

I love oxy/fuel torches sometimes.

GWE
Another name for a cutting torch is "gas wrench". If someone hears
that one for the first time they know exactly what it is.
ERS
Also known as the "blue tip wrench" as in contrast to the "blue
point" wrench
Or the "Blue tip chisel", or even the "blue tip drill and tap" when
used to burn boken tuds out of cast manifolds, leaving the threads
intact.
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we called them smoke wrenches


John