Welcome to the addiction! Ha ha ha ha
I used a hardware store welders torch for my first year or two playing an hour or two a month to begin with.
I even made my own kiln with a 1500 watt space heater with the quartz filament covers, a large mail box and 2 inch thick kaolin wool.
I made the mistake of getting a temp controller with instructions translated through 5 languages but that was more than a decade ago so you probably wouldn't have that problem (and I do techy stuff all the time too).
Check out the garage sale thread for things for sale and I understand there are a few FB sites for lampwork destashing as well.
Use the search function here and put two or more words in quotes to help the old fashion search software not get caught up trying to give you a massive list of each individual word search.
That can soak of hours of server time and act like it's ignoring your request altogether.