FLASHBACK
So, last night I experienced this for the first time in 6 1/2 years of lampworking. My Gtt phantom flashbacked into the oxy line, got caught at the quick connect and blew a hole in the line.....It happened when i tried to turn the outer flame on. Firstly I turned on the inner and the torch "popped" which i've never ever experienced with a gtt. Then, when i turned on the outer flame It wooshed out extremely propane rich, then suddenly sucked back into the torch. I shut the torch down and looked down cause i smelled hot rubber. I touched the line and it was too hot to touch, I reached down to touch it again and the hose exploded right in front of the connection.....We are sending in the torch to get looked at by gtt and see what caused this.
Has anyone else experience this extremely frightening phenomenon. If so what was the cause?
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Lampwork by John Lindquist
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