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simon beer wrote:
Along with everything else that's been said, buy a bl**dy good blow
tourch. Not one from the sheds but go to the plumbers merchants. You
will wait all day for a crap one to heat the pipe. Get a "Turbo Torch"
or the likes and use the yellow tins (cast iron) of gas, think it MAPP
gas. Expect to pay around £45 for one and aroud the house it should last
you years. The £10 shed ones are ok for paint stripping and that about
all!

I've got an ancient Camping Gaz one which was shed bought and well up to
the job. You don't actually need that much heat, and the broad flame it
produces is ideal for soldering. Think they're still available.

If plumbing in copper for a living, something with a larger canister would
probably be cheaper to run, but more of a pain to carry around.

I did buy one of those ones all the sheds stock now - thinking the press
button ignition and higher temperature gas would be useful for some
things. But it had a slow leak. Changed it, and so did the next one, so I
got a refund. A bit like a cordless tool used infrequently - when you come
to use it, it's flat. ;-)

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