New Oxy-Propane Torch just watch!
by John
Yesterday I took delivery of a tiny oxy torch. I guess that most buyers would be jewellers, but if you watched my post about silver soldering the tiny Trevithick dredger engine firebox door hinges, you will understand my interest in this Ebay offering for $AUD28.
I am experimenting with making videos for this post, so please excuse the amateurish faults in the following videos.
And here I am experimenting with the tiny torch. Frankly, It is probably not up to the job here, but it was interesting trying it. I can see that it will be very useful for other small jobs.
Please excuse the awful video technique. I can see that I need a better camera, tripod, and technique.
This little oxy – propane/acetylene/MAPP gas/hydrogen/ etc is pretty awesome.
And BTW, the leak in the water pre-heater was fixed!
johnsmachines 
perhaps some background heat from an ordinary blowlamp plus a surround of firebrick would help
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Good points. And just use the tiny torch for the actual solder point.
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Neat little torch for small bits and pieces John and certainly doesn’t break the bank.
As suggested, pin pointing in the environment of other background heat would offer fine accuracy.
Good one!
Tim
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Hello John,
Just stumbled across your blog, was looking for brass suppliers and Google found your recent brass lust post for me. It was a pure bonus to see what you wanted the brass for.
Will be in Clayton tomorrow (pure luck) and will check out the supplier you mentioned.
Great job well done you ! I have only just made my first wobbler and was chuffed with that – you must be quite happy having the skills and knowledge to build that Trevithick thingy.
Are you aware of the MSMEE club – I have only just found out about them https://www.msmee.org.au/ you might find some like minded folk there.
So am keen to see your next posts and will spend a while trawling through your previous posts.
I don’t know how these blogs work ….. is it a bit like a forum – I post here http://metalworkforums.com/ fairly often and there are lotsa people on that forum who would enjoy seeing what you have made.
Regards
Bill
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