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Huh. I never knew there would be this many things to stump me on my "simple" quest of building a diy forge and burner. Thanks for the help and explanations, I'll get my regulator swapped out and keep plugging along!

I'll see if I can return/exchange the regulator I bought, but so I understand more of what I'm doing, what's the difference between the regulator I got and the one you posted a pic of?

10 hours ago, timgunn1962 said:

Over here in the UK, flammable gas fittings tend to be Left-handed, where inert and Oxidizing gas fittings tend to be Right-handed. I think what you are looking for is what we over here would call a "LH nut and hosetail", usually available from a local welding supplier. The hosetail needs to suit the bore of your hose and you'll need suitable clips. I use O-clips here. I'm guessing there will be something similar over there? If you have a RH nut and hosetail already, you'll probably just need the LH nut and clips.

I think that's called a barbed fitting? Where you shove the hose onto it and then use clamps or o rings to tighten it onto the fitting? That might work actually, I'll look into that. Thanks!

Frosty, I must have bought a different type of regulator then, mine has the level and pressure gauges built in, and the only output available is 9/16 LH threads. I'm going to school for welding right now, and this is the same kind we use for our oxyfuel torch setups. I thought that would work. I might try to use a barbed fitting and connect a hose to each end that way, that seems like my best option for now.

I've been banging my head against a wall for quite a while now, trying to figure out how to hook up my propane tank to my Frosty T Burner, and still haven't been able to figure it out. I bought a Harris propane regulator, but the output has left handed threads, and I can't for the life of me find an adapter or any other way to connect that to a propane hose or other brass fittings listed on Frosty's instructions. Did I get the wrong kind of regulator? I saw some people mention that you shouldn't use a normal BBQ regulator since it may not give enough pressure, and I figured an industry standard one should be more than adequate, but now I'm stuck. I'm probably making this way harder than it needs to be, but could anyone shine a little light on this for me? Let me know if you need more details about anything in my setup, I don't know enough about all this to even know what's relevant...

Oh, that's super helpful. I may have to take the few pieces I have in and see what they can do to help. Thanks for the tip!

Hmm, that makes a lot of sense. I briefly thought about that aspect but for some reason I dismissed it. I like that layout a lot better though, thanks!

Hi all, first post here. I'm in the middle of building my first forge setup, and I followed Frosty's T Burner instructions as closely as I possibly could. The burner came together just fine, but I'm seriously struggling trying to understand how to hook up my propane bottle. I got the parts listed in the guide, but also added a needle valve and shutoff ball valve. After looking around a bit, I noticed pictures of people with the rubber hose connected directly to the back of the burner, but my fittings are all wrong for that since I have  a flare fitting. (I know basically nothing about plumbing and these fittings, so please go easy) What kind of connector/fitting do I need to hook up directly to the propane hose, and is that recommended? I can't seem to find anything that is similar to what's listed in Frosty's guide, and I don't want to have 10 different adapters throughout my setup, haha.

Ideally, I think I'd like a needle valve right after the burner to adjust the amount of propane in my forge, then a shutoff valve somewhere near the forge itself in case I need to kill the gas quickly, then the hose would go over to the regulator/propane tank. Does that sound reasonable or am I making it too complicated?

Thanks for your help!