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2010-10-31, 11:28am
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Which Torch?
I've piped in propane, tried both Bobcat and Cricket (was on HH). Am having alot of trouble doing stuff I was doing on the HH (stringer work, adding silver wire). Is there a duel fuel torch that heats and behaves like a HH? The biggest reason I did this was to eliminate the bulk tank inside. I know this sounds crazy, but I'm having so much trouble adjusting and frustrated I can't do stuff that I did well before.
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2010-10-31, 4:36pm
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It also took me a while to transition between a HH to the Minor and then to the Scorpion. What worked for me was to turn down the propane so I had a small flame and work my stringer and silver wire. It's definitely hot enough and the small flame allows me to heat just the spot I need. PM'ing you.
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Scorpion, bulk propane, 2 5lpm oxycons, tanked O2, a Minor and a HH (just in case)
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2010-10-31, 6:09pm
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Thanks Barb, pm back.
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2010-10-31, 6:20pm
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Get out of the flame more, your. COre is staying really hot and radiating heat out to your detail work. With ox prop torches you need tobe in and out of the flame more and the bead will tolerate it alot more than you are used to. I had that same trialmat first.
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2010-11-05, 2:21pm
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I wonder if you'd be happier with a mini-cc. It has a bushier flame and a lot of radiant heat but not as hot of a pinpoint as the cricket.
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2010-11-05, 2:31pm
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I was thinking the samething Felicia.
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2010-11-06, 7:49am
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Go back to basic.... Find where best heat in flame is and where glass moves the way you want it to.... You have intensely more heat than with hothead.... Hothead has a busy flame and about 3200° at hottest part of flame, fuel/oxygen torch is about 4800° in hottest portion of flame and heat area is more pinpoint....
Basics, as other have stated, would be use smaller flame and move out a bit further in flame....
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2010-11-14, 4:17pm
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Thanks all. Will continue to play with this, another torch is out of thequestion at this point, but maybe at some point I can find a min cc to try. I am determined to make this work.
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2010-11-16, 8:29am
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Instead of buying another torch I would just practice. Every torch works a bit different and will just take some time to get used to  you will get your stringer control back
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