|
2006-03-09, 7:45pm
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 14, 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 324
|
|
New Torch Hook up Questions
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Michelle
aka Mommawoodsy
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2006-03-09, 8:16pm
|
|
boro color bender
|
|
Join Date: Jun 06, 2005
Location: The Oregon coast!
Posts: 10,039
|
|
If it's a Betta you are getting, it will hook up to welding hoses. The torch has hose barbs on it, so any ends that come on the hose, just get cut off. Don't forget the hose clamps. Your hubby will know what those are. They will keep the hose on the barbs and keep it from leaking. The hoses are cheapest to get at your local welding shop.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley
|
2006-03-09, 8:31pm
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 14, 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 324
|
|
Thank you!!! Will I need regulators?
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Michelle
aka Mommawoodsy
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2006-03-09, 8:43pm
|
|
PyronamixK
|
|
Join Date: Jun 24, 2005
Location: Spatula City
Posts: 4,196
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mommawoodsy
Thank you!!! Will I need regulators?
|
You won't need an oxygen regulator if you're running a concentrator. If your NG is at household pressure, it is already being regulated and you won't need one for your torch. Now, if your pressures are getting up to the 10 psi range, then you should get one. Ask your gas company what your pressure is. Oh, and make sure that you have a shut off valve.
|
2006-03-10, 6:52am
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 14, 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 324
|
|
Thanks Kim, ok nope not over 5 my hubby said. That is good so no regulators needed. Just one oxy con and some hoses now and the adaptors to hook them up. Also how do you turn on the fuel and oxy. Do you do one before the other and do you light it before adding the 2nd one? I am a little nervous I have never use anything beside my hot head and a small mapp gas tank that screwed right to the bottom of it.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Michelle
aka Mommawoodsy
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2006-03-10, 7:06am
|
|
odd lot addict
|
|
Join Date: Jun 12, 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 692
|
|
With an oxy concentrator, turn on your oxy at the torch, turn on your oxy concentrator . . .turn your oxy off at at the torch while you turn on your gas & light it and then turn the oxy back on and adjust your flame.
While your oxy con is running, make sure to keep your oxy knob open except just for a few seconds to light your torch and to turn off the gas at the torch.
Clear as mud?
__________________
Jen
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2006-03-10, 9:12am
|
|
Gentleman of Leisure
|
|
Join Date: Jun 10, 2005
Location: A Little Bit West of Yosemite Valley
Posts: 5,200
|
|
Try to achieve a flame that looks similar to picture below. See the tiny yellow tops on the "candles"?. This is pretty much a neutral flame. This is the type of flame where you will do most work.... With oxy con you will probably run torch oxygen valve full open and have to adjust with fuel knob to achieve proper flame.
Apologies to whom ever picture belongs to. I would like to give credit to picture owner,
but I do not have any idea who that person may be. Sorry.
Dale
__________________
You can lead a person to knowledge, but you can't make them think. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Vendor-Artist-Studio-Teacher Registry To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
San Francisco - A Few Toys Short of a Happy Meal
|
2006-03-10, 12:21pm
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 14, 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 324
|
|
wow thanks everyone that will help alot.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Michelle
aka Mommawoodsy
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2006-03-14, 4:37pm
|
|
odd lot addict
|
|
Join Date: Jun 12, 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 692
|
|
My apologies for hijacking your thread, but Dale, do you really work that close to the candles? I work about 4-6 inches out from the candles and wonder if I've been doing it wrong!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dale M.
Try to achieve a flame that looks similar to picture below. See the tiny yellow tops on the "candles"?. This is pretty much a neutral flame. This is the type of flame where you will do most work.... With oxy con you will probably run torch oxygen valve full open and have to adjust with fuel knob to achieve proper flame.
Apologies to whom ever picture belongs to. I would like to give credit to picture owner,
but I do not have any idea who that person may be. Sorry.
Dale
|
__________________
Jen
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2006-03-14, 5:37pm
|
|
PyronamixK
|
|
Join Date: Jun 24, 2005
Location: Spatula City
Posts: 4,196
|
|
That's not Dale. See the note beneath it.
PS To answer your question, 4-6" is usually a little too far out, unless you're working opalinos and boily glass. The sweet spot is typically about 3" or so out. A lot depends on how fast you work, too. The slower you are, the farther out you will want to be so you don't boil the glass. If you are working 4-6" from the candles, and it is working for you, then there's no need to change. The closer you move in, the hotter it will be, and the faster you will need to work.
|
2006-03-14, 5:44pm
|
|
odd lot addict
|
|
Join Date: Jun 12, 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 692
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by kbinkster
That's not Dale. See the note beneath it.
|
I know.
Let me re-phrase. Are you supposed to work that close to the candles?
__________________
Jen
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2006-03-14, 8:20pm
|
|
PyronamixK
|
|
Join Date: Jun 24, 2005
Location: Spatula City
Posts: 4,196
|
|
It looks like I was posting my PS when you posted. I will add that when working boro, you can work that close to the candles.
|
2006-03-14, 8:56pm
|
|
odd lot addict
|
|
Join Date: Jun 12, 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 692
|
|
Thanks Kimberly!
__________________
Jen
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2006-04-20, 3:31pm
|
|
formerly JewelsByJenny
|
|
Join Date: Sep 04, 2005
Location: Central Coast California
Posts: 917
|
|
Do you need a flashback arrestor for NG?
|
2006-04-23, 9:26am
|
|
PyronamixK
|
|
Join Date: Jun 24, 2005
Location: Spatula City
Posts: 4,196
|
|
If you would have one for your propane, you should have one on your NG. It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
A while back (not too long ago, actually), I would have said that, hey, with a surface mix burner, you really don't need flashbak arrestors. But now, after hearing so many reports of popping torches on this forum (indicating premixing - which can lead to a flashback), I would have to say that there may be a need, afterall. Better safe than sorry. They are not expensive and the peace of mind is worth it.
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 2:23pm.
|