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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,492
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Acetylene torch question
My neighbor offered to give me her acetylene torch and a pretty full tank with a regulator.
(She's a jeweler).
I was pretty excited about the offer, because my first thought was oxy/acetylene. Not to be, this is an air/acetylene rig.
So, other than copper plumbing or other soldering, what sort of work can be done with air/acetylene? It seems like most of the information on the internets is from the HVAC world....
Does air/acetylene give enough heat to braze steel? Any advice on what rod to use?
Also, all the fittings are sealed with plumbing-spec teflon tape. Is that OK, or should I replace that tape with natural gas-spec (yellow) tape?
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