"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
05/22/2020 at 22:40 • Filed to: Tool time
2
20|
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
05/22/2020 at 22:40 • Filed to: Tool time | 2
| 20 |
My wife and I had a bonfire tonight. We like to light the fire with a blowtorch ... Because why jack around with a lighter, when you have a blow torch? Well, my torch had become sooty and cloggy, and wasn’t working very well. Sure, I can clean it ... And I will ... But then I remembered I got this vintage torch kit from my father-in-law when I was cleaning out his basement. I’m pretty sure it was never used. He’s not especially handy, and I can’t see him sweating pipes together. It’s a really nice chunk of all brass!
Look at that flame baby!
TheRealBicycleBuck
> shop-teacher
05/22/2020 at 22:53 |
|
Nice! I bought one a few years ago to sweat in a new outside faucet and taught my daughter how to solder. I found one of those vintage kits in my mom’s workshop, but I didn’t even open the box. Now I’m inspired!
Kiltedpadre
> shop-teacher
05/22/2020 at 22:53 |
|
What’s better than a torch? Multiple torches!
I don’t have a fire pit, but I feel the same way when I build a fire in the fireplace. Why bother with matches when a torch is an option.
|
shop-teacher
> Kiltedpadre
05/22/2020 at 23:01 |
|
Exactly!
|
shop-teacher
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/22/2020 at 23:01 |
|
You should bust it out. I bet you'll find a similarly nice piece. It's very satisfying to manipulate.
Brickman
> shop-teacher
05/22/2020 at 23:05 |
|
It’s l ike a lightsaber :P
|
shop-teacher
> Brickman
05/22/2020 at 23:09 |
|
Ha!
Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> shop-teacher
05/22/2020 at 23:11 |
|
Chariotoflove
> shop-teacher
05/22/2020 at 23:46 |
|
The neighbor has a fire pit that we sit round while we drink and BS. Problem is, no mater where I sit, the smoke comes right at me. I move, and the breeze shifts with me. This is a trend over several years now. I come home smelling like a side of ribs. My only solution so far is to drink enough to not care.
Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
> shop-teacher
05/22/2020 at 23:57 |
|
My Boy Scout mentality will not let me use more than two matches to light a fire. So far this season, I’m one and done.
PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> shop-teacher
05/23/2020 at 00:01 |
|
Picked up a MAPP gas torch a few years ago and haven’t looked back. I really like the on demand ignitor trigger. Bon fires have never been the same!
ClassicDatsunDebate
> shop-teacher
05/23/2020 at 00:04 |
|
Dude...do you even MAP?
|
shop-teacher
> Chariotoflove
05/23/2020 at 07:53 |
|
This is the correct solution.
|
shop-teacher
> PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
05/23/2020 at 07:55 |
|
Those are nice. I like the simplicity of this old one though. You can use it with map gas too, and I will once this propane runs out.
|
shop-teacher
> Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
05/23/2020 at 07:56 |
|
I was never a boy scout, so I don't suffer from such ideals :)
|
shop-teacher
> ClassicDatsunDebate
05/23/2020 at 07:57 |
|
I do, actually. I have a bottle of map gas waiting in the wings for when the propane runs out.
cg-guy
> shop-teacher
05/23/2020 at 07:59 |
|
I note that safety precautions were in effect.
|
shop-teacher
> cg-guy
05/23/2020 at 09:38 |
|
Indeed :)
|
PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> shop-teacher
05/23/2020 at 11:14 |
|
You’re totally right, simplicity is often the best solution. I run propane through it most often, unless I need the extra heat.
|
ClassicDatsunDebate
> shop-teacher
05/23/2020 at 11:41 |
|
I remember an old mechanic introduced me to MAP gas when I was in my late teens. He explained how it burned hotter so it was a superior “heat wrench”. It was one of those times when you feel like you were let in on a trade secret, like when someone teaches you why you use nickel never-seeze over copper or how to properly wash a paint brush.
|
shop-teacher
> ClassicDatsunDebate
05/23/2020 at 13:12 |
|
I know the feeling :)