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Propane won't give you as much heat. Technically it won't weld, just braze, which is all most farmers/home shop welders do anyway. You will need new cutting tips and rosebud tips, the welding tips will work fine (for brazing). Of course a new requlator is needed. You need to make sure your hose is rated for all fuel gases, not just for Acetylene. I don't know what the problem is, but Goodyear has spent quite a bit of money to warn people not to use a certain hose series with any fuel gas other than acetylene.
I haven't seen propane rated to cut more then 2" (my O-A torch is rated for 12") even in a heavy duty torch series. I do think I would avoid running propane through a real dinky home depot series torch, since it may not have the flow.
I don't know where you guys get your tanks, I paid $320 for mine 10 years ago. At that price, a propane 20 or 100lb cylinder would have saved quite a bit of money. Shoot, I just paid $100 for a 10 lb CO2 cylinder last week.
One advantage of propane is that 50% of the time you run out of gas, it's going to be the propane tank which is easially refilled or replaced with a BBQ grill tank.
Pat
I haven't seen propane rated to cut more then 2" (my O-A torch is rated for 12") even in a heavy duty torch series. I do think I would avoid running propane through a real dinky home depot series torch, since it may not have the flow.
I don't know where you guys get your tanks, I paid $320 for mine 10 years ago. At that price, a propane 20 or 100lb cylinder would have saved quite a bit of money. Shoot, I just paid $100 for a 10 lb CO2 cylinder last week.
One advantage of propane is that 50% of the time you run out of gas, it's going to be the propane tank which is easially refilled or replaced with a BBQ grill tank.
Pat