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I discovered a handy improvement that is probably common knowledge to many but may be helpful for someone out there- I wanted to get one of those high-temp burnz-o-matic nozzles and checked them out at Home Depot and got a case of sticker shock, so I studied it to figure out how it was different than my standard low-temp nozzle, and noticed that the air holes are larger, and the swirl design offers less resistance, so I enlarged the holes on my old nozzle and drilled a hole in the middle of the baffle, and it now burns quite a bit hotter with more blast than before.
I often use the regular torch for heating small pieces of steel like wire to test
their hardenability, but getting enough heat has always been a problem with the whimpy flame the standard nozzle puts out, but I had no difficulty getting substantially larger pieces to non-magnetic (using a pumice block backing), and was able to get a much larger area up to heat than before.
It doesn't have the cool trigger-start, but it's quick and cheap!
I often use the regular torch for heating small pieces of steel like wire to test
their hardenability, but getting enough heat has always been a problem with the whimpy flame the standard nozzle puts out, but I had no difficulty getting substantially larger pieces to non-magnetic (using a pumice block backing), and was able to get a much larger area up to heat than before.
It doesn't have the cool trigger-start, but it's quick and cheap!