[AT] Torch kit

[Cecil Bearden]

Mike:
Start looking on craigslist for your bottles.  They come up here about 
every month for less than $200.  If you find a Smith set, I have 2 of 
the tips that fit smiths.  They came from a vo-tech and I have about 
100, yes 100 of them.   You can find 2 stage regulators on craigslist or 
at garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales.   You do not have to have 
the same brand for each regulator.  Just the correct pressure.  I would 
buy new hoses, and I buy mine on line, or I have some Harbor freight 
hoses that are working very well without leaks.   I probably have 5 
torch sets around here that I have no more than $300 in each one.  They 
don't look great, but they work and are in the right place when I need 
them.....

Cecil in oKla



On 2/16/2016 1:28 PM, Mike M wrote:
> Well, I stopped at the local welding supply house and spoke with a
> salesman there. What I left with was sticker shock! For a new 80 cf
> Oxygen tank and a slightly smaller in height Acetylene tank - $500 plus
> about another $60 to fill both tanks $40 for the Acetylene and $20 for
> the Oxygen. Then another $100 for a cart to haul them around. Torches
> were what I expected, around $260 for a Victor. So by the time I get all
> this equipment I'll be looking at about $1000 bill; to rich for my
> blood. I'll start keeping my eyes open for a used set.
>
> Mike M
>
>
> On 2/16/2016 8:10 AM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>> I don't pay a maintenance fee, but the tanks have to be tested every 5
>> years.   I have received a tank that had only 3 months left until it
>> needed testing.  I raised some heck over it and they agreed to test it
>> on their dime.   That maintenance fee probably stops having to pay a
>> testing fee many times over.
>>
>> Cecil in oKla
>>
>>
>> On 2/16/2016 5:19 AM, Mike M wrote:
>>> Makes sense to me Dennis and Greg, by giving them a tank you own, and
>>> can prove you own. You are really buying the "right" to exchange the
>>> tank. The maintenance and eventual obsolesce is paid for with the fees,
>>> and is their problem.
>>>
>>> Mike M
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/16/2016 12:45 AM, Greg Hass wrote:
>>>> When I got my tanks I received a Title complete with serial number for
>>>> legal purposes. In reality, I was buying "a" tank. After getting the
>>>> first full tank and then using it up and turning it in for a full tank,
>>>> the chances of ever getting the tank back that I bought are very slim.
>>>> When I pay the maintenance fee it is used to maintain "a" tank. I don't
>>>> quite know how to explain it, but each person "owns" a tank and they
>>>> just rotate as they are emptied and filled; you do not lose ownership
>>>> just because you do not keep the same tank as it is still in the
>>>> "system". I am not good at explaining it but I hope you sort of get the
>>>> idea.
>>>>              Greg Hass
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