Please help my choose my new torch

[pompedom]

Hi you all,
I'm making beads just over a year on a Dragon Breeze(comparable to a hothead) and I'm now discovering the limitations of my torch. I like to make bigger beads and they take sometimes more then one hour. Two weeks ago I had a workshop with Boro and I really loved it, so maybe in some time I will go over to the dark side.
There are so many choices for an torch that runs on propane and one or two oxycons. I want to start with one 5 liter/min concentrator and add another one later(when money is not so thight)
I think the choices are:
Minor
MegaMinor, more expensive then the other torches
Mini CC, needs more then one concentrator but only $150
Bobcat
Cricket(new GTT torch), only $140 and made to work on low oxygen concentrations

I'm willing to order in the US and I'm not in a hurry so I could wait on the new cricket.

Thanks in advance

[Lea Zinke]

Hi Martine: Saw your post, I've got a used Midrange by Nortel in the Garage Sale. I reduced the price to $185, let me know if you're interested. There are several pictures of the torch in that post.

Best,
Lea

[HelleAlice]

I just ordered a pink Cricket. I don't know about the netherlands, but here in norway, you have to have a permit for tanked oxygen, and its really hard to get, so an oxycon is the only way to go for me. And who could resist a pink torch...
Where are you getting your oxycon from?

[pompedom]

Lea, thanks for your offer, but I the midrange is bigger then the torches I'm looking for. It needs 3 oxycons and i would like a torch that can run on 1 or 2.

HelleAlice,
I'll get my concentrator from www.gekleurdglas.nl , but www.sansiera.nl and www.alena.nl sell them as well. The concentrator from gekleurdglas has slightly more power and is a bit cheaper. I have no idea about the shipping costs for a concentrator to norway. The costs of a concentrator are around 150 euro's

[prodigy60]

wow... thats an interesting typo =\

[pompedom]

uhh what typo? I Saw that it should have been "Help me choose my nw torch"But that's the only one I could discover and could not change. English is my sencond language and I'm dyslectic, so I could make a mistake now and then.

[prodigy60]

someone fixed it... what i was referring to was where the b in "bigger" ... wasnt exactly a b. not something i was willing to quote and draw attention to. its fixed now, no worries =)

[pompedom]

I saw it myself already, so i fixed it. Thanks for saying!

[goatgurl]

I vote for the Cricket -- just tried one out at the Gathering and ordered one for myself -- it is supposed to be a great torch for an oxygen generator.

Renee