bbderoff

Awesome! That is the advice most of us would be looking for, I think. At least those, who - like me - just want a little burner for heating a small forge to shoe horses and adjust tools (forepunch, pritchel, hot set, shoe carrying tongs, etc.) sometimes, but not going to be forging tool grade steel most of the time. Not having an oxidizing flame is still preferable if I don't want to be brushing scale all the time and a reducing flame will give me less heat on more gas, I guess? How detrimental is not having a choke at all? The last set I got from Amazon is so poorly machined that the choke disc does not turn properly on the thread on the jet. Is there any benefit in having the jet opening further away from the throat than 0.5x the throat diameter(while assuming that the jet/throat diameter ratio is appropriate)? The previous one (choke disc) I lost (I carry the forge in the trunk), and it was still burning OK, but I wonder if I have used up unnecessarily large volumes of gas? Cheers, BB