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torch
Blow torch is a common name for a simple heating torch, which burns liquid fuel with ambient atmosphere
oxidizer after vaporizing it using a coiled tube passing through the flame. In the
United Kingdom the older, kerosene-fuelled, type was called a
blowlamp. In technical or trade usage, modern torches are never called "blowtorches"—they are instead referred to by the type of fuel they actually consume. For example, a "propane torch", "acetylene-air torch", or "oxyacetylene torch". Some torches are also named for their intended use: "cutting torch" and "plumber's torch" for example. Informed users of torches would only say "blowtorch" when speaking of old-fashioned tools that burn a liquid fuel using a vaporizer. In common parlance by uninformed speakers, however, the term is frequently used as a placeholder for any type of torch.
LPG fuel
Modern torches will typically run on
propane or
butane cartridges, or be fed from a liquid petroleum gas cylinder via a hose. They produce a much larger, softer flame than an
oxyacetylene torch and are used for low temperature applications — soldering,
brazing, melting roof tar, or pre-heating large
castings before
welding, such as for repairing cast-iron cylinder heads, and for direct rapid application of heat in
cooking. They cannot be used for welding, but find many other uses, not least because in their simplest form of a disposable canister feeding a hand-held torch they are very cheap and highly portable, and because the LPG fuel is very cheap in comparison to acetylene and oxygen. These torches are most frequently called "blowtorches" by non-torch-users, but are called "propane torches" by those who use them for work.
Liquid fuel
Older blowtorches used liquid fuel such as
kerosene in the form of
paraffin oil, or gasoline and more recently biodiesel. These are largely obsolete, and may be difficult to start, requiring pre-heating with
methylated spirit. If any doubts exist as to the integrity of the pressurized fuel tank or any of the seals in the torch, it should be treated strictly as an antique — if the tank bursts there is a very real risk of explosion or fire. These devices are properly called blowtorches.
External links
Website with information about gasoline blowtorches
See also
torch
Blow torch is a common name for a simple heating torch, which burns liquid
fuel with ambient
atmosphere oxidizer after vaporizing it using a coiled tube passing through the flame. In the United Kingdom the older, kerosene-fuelled, type was called a
blowlamp. In technical or trade usage, modern torches are never called "blowtorches"—they are instead referred to by the type of fuel they actually consume. For example, a "propane torch", "acetylene-air torch", or "oxyacetylene torch". Some torches are also named for their intended use: "cutting torch" and "plumber's torch" for example. Informed users of torches would only say "blowtorch" when speaking of old-fashioned tools that burn a liquid fuel using a vaporizer. In common parlance by uninformed speakers, however, the term is frequently used as a placeholder for any type of torch.
LPG fuel
Modern torches will typically run on
propane or butane cartridges, or be fed from a
liquid petroleum gas cylinder via a hose. They produce a much larger, softer flame than an
oxyacetylene torch and are used for low temperature applications — soldering,
brazing, melting roof tar, or pre-heating large
castings before welding, such as for repairing
cast-iron cylinder heads, and for direct rapid application of heat in
cooking. They cannot be used for welding, but find many other uses, not least because in their simplest form of a disposable canister feeding a hand-held torch they are very cheap and highly portable, and because the LPG fuel is very cheap in comparison to acetylene and
oxygen. These torches are most frequently called "blowtorches" by non-torch-users, but are called "propane torches" by those who use them for work.
Liquid fuel
Older blowtorches used liquid fuel such as
kerosene in the form of paraffin oil, or gasoline and more recently biodiesel. These are largely obsolete, and may be difficult to start, requiring pre-heating with methylated spirit. If any doubts exist as to the integrity of the
pressurized fuel tank or any of the seals in the torch, it should be treated strictly as an antique — if the tank bursts there is a very real risk of
explosion or
fire. These devices are properly called blowtorches.
External links
Website with information about gasoline blowtorches
See also
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