In a message dated 7/2/02 7:56:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, rocklube@adnc.com writes:
> . The "old
> school" which is Mario and friends where the torch is oxy/propane
>
I would have loved to have tried that, when I did my stint at Trek we used a
synthetic gas called "Flame-X" which was designed to duplicate Acetylene.
Propane would have been interesting. I never liked Flame-X because the whole
purpose of it was "more bang for the buck" It was not designed for this
characteristic, or that. The salesman only went on and on about cost.
Acetylene has unique characteristics that cannot be duplicated, and remember,
Brian, both at Trek, and at my place, there was an in line Gasfluxer that
made a huge difference, no matter what, but was a Godsend for fillet brazing.
I stopped buying premade flux, and went to buying bulk powdered Boric acid.
this was mixed with water, and applied in powder form like the stuff Ted had
left over from Masi. I came to realize that a 50# bucket of flux was 40#
water.
Dave Tesch
Milwaukee