On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:10:36 -0500, "Proctologically Violated©®"
wrote:

Awl--

Someone ripped my B-tank sweating set-up. Turbo-Torch, Goss repalcements
are, yikes, $200.
I seem to remember a less fancy ditty for $60-70. Anyone know where I can
get something like this? HD, Sears just have the bitty propane stuff.
Plumbing supply houses only carry the $200 stuff.


Just get a little bottle of "just for copper". It is like a cold weld,
works on copper and brass only - good for something like 400 degrees.

It works like crazy glue - and is just as strong as solder - $24
Canadian for a bottle that does 200 joints, or something like that.
I've used it, and it is GREAT!!.

BUT,
Can I just use my regyoolar O/A , w/ a highly reducing flame (ie, not a lot
of Ox so's I don't wind up melting the copper)??? I have various size
welding tips--as well as cutting tips.

Yeah, now I gotta lug two tanks around, but I don't do a lot of sweating
anyway (this partic. job may req. more heat than propane can give), so maybe
I can save some bucks?

Does it make sense that low ox pressure would be equivalent to TurboTorches
venturi-type air, ie, air sucked in or aspirated w/ the acetylene flow?

Strange, but if memory serves, the TT flame almost looks like an O/A flame,
but w/ just atmospheric air!! Not like it smokes or anything. Yet there
has to be a substantial diff. in heat/temp, right?? Just curious about
that.

Hope you all can help, as this plumbing job--or lack thereof--is causing
some amount of grief.
And that $200 for a TT ain't exactly burnin holes in my pocket.
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Mr. P.V.'d
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