johnny99

Yes exactly. What both Thomas 's said!!

Hi Bsing. I'm in denver Colorado. To answer your question, yes you could cut 1" w/a 1/2" tip but it would be ugly. You probably would be better of turning your oxygen pressure way up over what is rated and slowing down your travel speed. Rather than trying to cut from both sides. Remember don't turn the acytaline (sp?) up past 15psi. As it becomes unstable and can randomly explode. By the way, I used to live in kings mountain just outside of charlotte. how far away is hickory? Good luck. John

Hi, I use 60mL muriatic, 2400mL 3% peroxide to one gallon of warm water. use a pump up weed sprayer set to a fine mist to hose the thing down compleately as quick as you can to avoid dark runs. Do this after you have descaled, on a warm day when the piece is about 100 degrees. In ten to thirty minuets when you see about two shades lighter than you want on the piece, rinse it thourghly with water. ( wet it will look very close to the final color) Then let dry comletely and clearcoat w/ Permalac. With care and a little practice you can produce a patina ranging from a translucent gold through orange,red,yellow,and brown,up to a very opaque purpleish black. To go darker use more heat. To bring out brighter orange and yellows use more peroxide. Don't add much more acid or it will lift the rust off faster than it can grab and give you an unattractive mottled apearance. You can re apply over the original patina to achive darker shades several times, just make sure that you rinse it well and let it dry before clearcoating.

Hi, yes with the right tips you could certainly do both of those, and a rosebud tip is also an excelent source of localized heat for blacksmithing. However, I'm pretty sure you would need to manifold several tanks together to do either one on material that thick. With oxy-fuel, you can weld,braze,cut,solder,apply localized heat. The learning curve is not to bad, Probably easier than learning to run a stick welder well. But harder than running a mig. If you can tig weld already then it won't take you ten minuits to get it. As far as cost,the torch ,hoses and regulators are only part of the cost. You must also either lease, rent, or buy a set of tanks. Also you must pay to keep them filled in most cases. Which could get quite expensive if this is the only welding setup you have and you use it a lot. Personally I have four torches and three sets of tanks and wouldn't be without them. But I also wouldn't be without a good stick welder also. Around here you can pick up a decent used 250 Amp AC/AD welder for under a hundred and fifty bucks.