Nice used cutting torch.

[Shield Arc]

I always like to take a flat mil file to the cutting tip first. Get a real nice flat face to the tip then use the tip cleaners to work on the holes. I like to have the tip in the torch with just a little oxygen blowing. This helps blow the crap back out of the tip. My dad use tell the story of him watching a pipe weldor doing this, but he turned on the acetylene instead of the oxygen:confused3:! Guy had a full beard, when he lit the torch, his beard went up in flames.

If that tip clearer is broke off flush with the face of the tip. Maybe you can push it on in, then try to get it out from the torch end of the tip. Good luck with that!

 

[deereman75]

Well, I will try that.
Only issue is I can't find my darn tip cleaner.....
I might see about buying a few tips cleaners..... Those things always go missing.

One of the tips is about 3/8of an inch shorter than the others, and the holes seem way too big for its size. I am guessing someone filed way too much off?

I will have to try that oxygen trick! The mill file sounds a lot better than that useless flat file thing in the tip cleaners...

 

[deereman75]

Well, I just got off the phone with efco. They said they can rebuild both of my purox regulators. They said the price will depend on what's wrong, but the top end would be $65 a piece, with a 6 month warranty on the whole unit. It will likely be less than that.
I am planning on sending them out this weekend.
Let's see how they do. They claim to be one of the best in the industry.

If they do well, I might have some more for them in the future.

 

[yomax4]

You can buy a set of tip drills in a kit for about $10 or some LWS have the individual bits. These are very cool little drill bits..Some smaller than a human hair. The tube they come in is also the chuck. I used to sell them so I have a dozen sets..I use them for a lot of things other than tip cleaning. They wont remove a broken tip cleaner though..often you can heat the tip up and push the broken tip cleaner out the front from the back. The copper expands pretty good to let the piece out.

 

[deereman75]

I saw atl welding has them for $3.95. I will throw one in the order with the adapter and tip for my Harris straight torch.
Looks almost like a jewelery tool?
Question here, should I get a propane heating tip for the adapter, or just use a big cutting tip?
I am trying to cut down my spending as much as possible.... I am trying to get the last $600-$750 I need for a truck.....

 

[Shield Arc]

Not quite sure I understand your question. For most of my preheating needs I use a propane weed burner. Only time I use a rosebud for heat shrinking is to straighten beams. For tube, pipe, angle iron, C-channel, plate, etc, etc, I use a large cutting tip. Every once in a great while I'll use a small welding tip. Unless I'm mistaken here, I don't see you having to straighten any beams for awhile.

 

[yomax4]

For smaller concentrated heating, bending and straightening, I too just use a regular cutting tip to heat. You can also get the rosebud tube with an adaptor to install a cutting tip on the end. This gets wicked hot in a very small area. The rest of the rosebuds heat a large sized area and gobble fuel.I have a few weed burners but have never tried one for heating anything but cast iron. I'll give it a try..I bent the wedge on my log splitter and needed a 100,000 btu propane bud to get the area hot enough to bend it back. Then I split some oak and promptly broke it off...Back to the shop, lol.

 

[deereman75]

I guess I was asking if a rosebud is really needed for things such as general bending and forming work. I can't see my self working with anything heavier than 1/2" round bar. I just haven't done enough bending work to know what is really needed. Virtually all my bending has been done with a coal blacksmith forge.
I figured that for that sort of work, a good sized cutting tip would be fine. The only metal I have really bent with a torch is 1/4" round bar...... LOL

I guess I should just try it out, and see what works. I have never even seen a rosebud lit, so I am not really sure when you actually need one?

 

[Shield Arc]

All depends on the volume, or the area mass you want to heat. I've straightened beams using two #12 rosebuds. But how many guys here do that for a living much less at home?

 

[deereman75]

I guess I will just use cutting tips until I have to bend something too big for it. That will be a good reason to get a rosebud.
I have up to #9 purox cutting tips. Not sure if a 75cf acetylene tank will be big enough for them? I saw that I can get a #11 propane purox tip on ebay for $12 to my door. I would be tempted to try that before spending the $100+ on a purox rosebud....... LOL