On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:01 AM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you were creative enough, you could set up propane or mapp gas with a
> compressed air setup instead of the small oxygen tanks. Compressed
> atmospheric air is just about as good. I have a torch like this that we just
> cut the hose, and attached to the air compressor....
> thus giving you a limitless supply of air, and you just have to replace the
> Mapp gas tanks. Heck my jewelry studio is run on compressed air and natural
> gas....
> It's plenty hot enough for most things, and it's just about as close as you
> can get to limitless.
>
> I still recommend the $50 homedepot setup. It's hot.
>
> -Craig

Thanks for the pointers guys.

Craig I know what you mean. Where I apprenticed repairing horns and
making trombone bells, the owner had an air compressor + propane setup
for silver and bronze brazing. For various reasons, I won't be setting
up anything like that, or oxy/acetylene, here. Still, that setup
worked fine.

I'll likely swap in my the somewhat "unknown" used lower control arm.

Cheers,

Neil.