Looking for a blow torch

[Stan]

Hey Doug...give this guy a call, he's in Vancouver or somewhere near there.
Stan

http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/clt/597943934.html

[Doug]

Can tell at a glance that its Gasoline, I already own one just like it   

Stan....
Oh Stan of Stanistan......
Did you go to this link I posted in the PV8 thread?
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Stanistan

[Stan]

OK, thought as it was labelled kerosene it might be right for you.  I used to use a gasoline one when I was a kid, carefully, very carefully as I lost my eyelashes and eyebrows on more than one occasion with it.

Thank you for publicizing my country of origin.  You failed to mention though, the large "lakes" of oil that my people will one day use to rule the world.  Now we use them for washing our clothes.  The only disadvantage to living in Stanistan is when someone digs a really deep outhouse pit above us.
Stan

[Doug]

I didn't come up with that, but I steal from it.

[Doug]

I still want a diesel fired torch to preheat my engine with, since I can't find what I want I decided to make one.

Today I took a #4 JIC fitting and drilled it, tapped it made needle valve seat and packing nut.

I only have a die grinder, drill press and bench grinder for power tools and tand taps and dyes for the threading.

What I made is 90% complete ( not bad for just screwing around at work during a lul in the chaos )

Next I need to make a presure tank and the burner head.

The moral is if you think about what you want you can probably find a way to make it yourself

[wrightkiller]

Doug  Did you see this?    might Work.....

 http://cgi.ebay.com/TELEFLEX-Military-MBU-V3-Diesel-Stove-Burner-Grill_W0QQitemZ250181507978QQihZ015QQcategoryZ62117QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

[Doug]

Very nice looking stove, but its a little more complicated than I want.

http://medlem.spray.se/blowlamp/History/history.htm

Seventh image from the top shows something simple and I'm going to try and make it.
I just need to make the tank, the hose and and a burner head and generator to work withthe valve and mixture screw I made today.

Today I had intensions of working on other parts but It looks like this will be a fun project too ( even it if dones work lol )

 

[rcavictim]

Doug,

Why not simply pour a wee bit of liquid oxygen (LOX) into the oil sitting in the engine crankcase.  This will burst into a hot raging fire that ought to have the engine block up to operating temperature in about 15 seconds!     The fire should extinguish itself when the oxygen is depleted. If not a chaser of CO2 from a fire distinguisher will do the trick.   

[Stan]

I still think bolting the engine to a frame buried in a ton of sand, then dribbling diesel and oil into it for awhile and then just touching it off with a match would warm up any engine. 
Stan

[Doug]

Both very clever ideas if you live in Bizaro land lol.....

Thanks guys but I think I will stay the course and try and make a simple diesel fired coolant heater along the lines of what Mike posted.....

I wonder what CSA would think?

[rcavictim]

Both very clever ideas if you live in Bizaro land lol.....

Thanks guys but I think I will stay the course and try and make a simple diesel fired coolant heater along the lines of what Mike posted.....

I wonder what CSA would think?

This drives me crazy.  What do you care what a bunch of retired Canadians living in Florida (Canadian Snowbirds Association) think?  Or would that be the Canadian Space Agency?  Geeze.  When a company like the canadian Standards Association has held copyright on a acronym as trademark for virtually ever, don`t you think as I do that you have to be pretty clueless to chose a name for your organization that has the same acronym?  Big Duh!

Sorry for the rant.

[johnnyfr]

I don't blame you.

[Doug]

They also still hold the copywrite on Canadian engineering standards....

ANd I try not to think too much my head hurts

[Doug]

My brand new 1940s Blow torch arrived today.

I'm pleased and amused.

A welcome addition to my dusty old things that let me retreat in the the past where there are no computers and solid state devices.

It pumps up and holds presure, inthe morning I'll takeit apart and clean it up possibly restore.
I think the tank will however be the test bed for my new diesel torch head experiment to preheat the Petteroid.

I love brass....

I love old things, they brings me back to those warm and fuzzy places like your grandfathers work shop, a box of shortbread cookies and hot cup of teas ( with three tea spoons of sugar ).

[dkwflight]

Hi Doug
Probably the gasoline type blow lamp would burn kero if you let it warm up longer.

As a kid I used a weed burner that consisted of a pump up tank like a weed chemical sprayer.
The burner had a valve and a handle mounted on a 3/8' steel pipe the pipe was bent into a coil that enclosed the orfice.
Operation consisted of filling the tank, pumping up some pressure, opening the valve to alow kero to dribble out of the orfice onto the ground, lighting the pool of kero, waiting for the fire to heat the coil ( about 5" in diameter and 10" long. The cold oil went to the far end of the coil. at the near end the tubing was bent around to the orfice) The orfice directed the stream of oil along the axis of the coil about in the center.
The sound of the flame became a soft roar as the oil in the pipe vaporised. You would regulate the flow to get a flame about 1' to 18" long 5 to 6" in diameter.
I am sure you could scale such a burner down or up for that matter.
Dennis
Dennis.