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billykan
Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Isle of Lewis
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4105 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:37 am Post subject: |
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What sort of jobs do you envisage using it for?, it seems an expensive if just used to heat up corroded nuts and bolts?
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1735 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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I'm with Dave on this one, it seems a hell of a lot of money for kit that's very specialised and, to my mind, a bit over-sold. If you want to heat up corroded fasteners then nothing electrical is going to beat oxyacetylene, but I suspect that the claimed 1000w rating of this tool isn't even going to beat a simple MAPP torch, available at any decent plumber's merchant for a fraction of the price and a much more useful tool to boot. The risks involved with using a naked flame for heating things are real for sure, but nothing that can't be managed with a little common sense. Also, I doubt that anything likely to be damaged by exposure to heat from any kind of gas torch is much less likely to be damaged by exposure to heat from one of these devices. I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole and suggest anyone that does is likely to be disappointed.
There's a similar device on the market for soldering capillary joints on copper pipes without using a naked flame - essentially two big soldering irons hinged together with specially shaped tips. The makers claim it's ideal for making joints in situations where risk of fire means you can't use a gas torch, but the obvious solution to that problem is to use a simple compression fitting instead. Beware of new types of tools for old jobs, because there's a good chance they're trying to sell you an expensive solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7119 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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If the corroded item is at all chunky then I think it has to be the oxy-acetylene. In my experience you need to heat it to red heat and calor gas doesn't achieve this with chunky items.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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