Just a quick update, I've now got a gas welding and cutting set complete with portapak bottles, the smallest ones available. The reason I got this kit is it was on special at one of my local suppliers in the Christmas sale. Two stage regs for both oxy and acetylene, two 4.5 metre hoses bonded together along their length, flashback arrestors, non return valves, mixing body, cutting head with three different sized nozzles, welding torch head with three different sized nozzles, nozzle cleaning tool, sparker (crap though) all for two hundred notes. Bottles cost me another £150 ish including a years rental on the cylinders.
Made a simple plywood cabinet on castors to hold it all and set it up this morning, guess what? I can weld with gas! Looking forward to trying ally next as I have a six port manifold to make to link the CBR600 throttle bodies to the Cosworth V6 inlets, could be fun and/or expensive.
I would have loved to go the TIG route but it was just too expensive to justify at the moment and the gas kit will be soooo useful in the workshop anyway.
Cheers, D.
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