[AT] OT: Rosebuds! The oxi-acetylene kind...

[Mike]

Interesting that you would bring that up Charlie, I was watching RFD-TV 
the other night and they were interviewing a guy that had restored Power 
Horse tractors. Parts are apparently very hard to get for those 
tractors, you either need to make them or have a parts tractor. Anyway, 
he said when he got it the transmission gears were seized up, so he 
filled the transmission with charcoal briquets and let it burn, same 
type of idea. Those are neat little tractors by the way, made to be 
controlled just like a horse using reins to control the tractor via two 
levers.
Mike M

On 11/14/2013 7:22 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Dave if the part is such that you can do it without messing something else
> up
> you might find you have better success, and cheaper, by just building a big
> fire and throwing the part in the bed of coals for a while.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:31 AM
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> Subject: [AT] OT: Rosebuds! The oxi-acetylene kind...
>
> I'm pretty ok with cutting & brazing, but have never used a rosebud to heat
> something, and my experience today has me scratching my head.
> The project at hand is freeing up a cast iron wheel hub, stuck on a keyed 1"
> shaft. This is on an old Gilson / MW garden tractor transmission.... the
> idea is to liberate a set of 4 of these hubs to make dual adapters for use
> on another tractor with a FEL.
>
> I have soaked it for quite some time and have a puller tensioned on it, but
> it's not moving... so now it's time for a little heat.
>
> I bought a new victor 8-MFA rosebud and lit it off as I would the torch, but
> when I try to get a blue flame, it flames out with a pop!
>
> What's going on here? Do I not want a hot blue flame, or do I simply need to
> feed a lot more of both gases to the torch? Or??  Any insight into these
> things would be appreciated!
>
>     btw, I'm on digest, so it'll take a day for me to respond (:<((
>
>
> Dave in Gilroy, CA
> webguydave at yahoo.com
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