Bringing Back The First Blow torch
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This video is a follow-up to my earlier video on the world's earliest blow-torch: • The Worlds First Blow ...
In this video I build and test a new blow-lamp for my workshop, this one much more powerful than my last. These blow-lamps date back to the early renaissance and radically improved the efficiency of numerous industries, preventing the destruction of forests for fuel and enriching the field of science with a powerful tool.
Thanks so much for watching! Ive gotten many comments asking about my strange pronunciation. what you're hearing is just my speech impediment softening "or" sounds. If you find me difficult to understand, I made the closed captions for this video which might help. Thanks again!
Are you aware of the mewing method, from Dr. Mew and his son.
Don't worry about it. People pronounce things differently and people who watch your videos will get used to it.
I'm Swiss and understand you very well! Better than some other English speakers.
Would you consider using a MIG welding tip as the blow pipe nozzle?
Just sounded like a dialect thing to me
I instantly recognised the working principle, my late uncle was a goldsmith and clockmaker, and he had a blowtorch that worked on this very principle. It was gas fed, but you had to blow into a small hose to form a jet flame. He taught me how to use it as a kid but i always used to get saliva accumulate in the hose. Eventually i did get the hang of it though, and was able to solder and even melt gold filings he used to collect every night when he finished work. I once saw him build a clock from nothing more than brass sheets and rods and spring steel wire. Truelly a master craftsman
This is so cool. My uncle was also a clockmaker. I loved going in his little shop as a kid. Dozens of clocks ticking away. These guys were/are true genius. He made me and my wife a bench grandfather clock from scratch for my wedding present it has gold and silver in it. The weights are weighed with real silver coins. We have been married 20 years and this clock still runs and keeps time perfectly. He sadly passed away two years after we got married. I miss him greatly and would love to go back to being a young kid sitting in his shop while he worked. The sound of clocks will always give me that nostalgia feeling.
@@Scummy_shovel i totally get it👍🏻
@@zenger74 lol my wife just said. Wouldn’t it be Crazy if that was your cousin and you guys are talking about the same uncle lol it really is a very neat trade. I wish I’d pay more attention when I was younger. I learned a lot from him. I’m a metal fabricator and hobby machinist and was able to get his old lathe and a bunch of his fixtures and tools. Most of which I have zero clue what he used them for lol. But I’d never get rid of them. Who knows. Maybe one day I can build a clock. Doubt it lol
we still use the ol 'blow pipe torches' in the jewelry industry, theyre wonderful for repairing very fine chains because its so controllable. the laser welder has kind of replaced their usefulness in a well equipped shop but those still cost at least $10k and up to like $50k so not everyone can afford to get one.
A fun piece of history.
That said, a pointed copper or iron short bar kept at near red-hot, perhaps by this very design placed on the back side of the joint, with flux solder on the 'cold side' would be much faster and less busy work, IMO.
That was so interesting. Thanks for sharing it. I'm not sure what l'm missing, at least according to other comments but, l find your voice very pleasant to listen to and noticed neither an accent nor a speech impediment. 😊
Thank you :) I really appreciate that!
Another way to seal clay is to cook oats in it or something. It will swell and plug the clay. That's for something you eat out of. I'll try it the next time I make a lamp though. Good video.
The package called "Sizes and shapes" (Stock # 707) by K and S precision metals has lots of good tiny pipes that work great for blowpipe tips. I got mine off of Amazon.
Thanks so much! thats a really helpful tip, I'll have to pick that up.
Man your channel is absolutely fascinating! Awesome work, definitely learned a few things. It's crazy you can do the same thing with a tiny clay pot and a long tube as you can with a big old oxyacetelyne rig, I really want to make one.
If im being honest i thought i clicked on a backyardscientist video but i am not disappointed
Prdy genius amd smart makes total sense
Bravo! (Try lime fluxed glass instead of borosilicate, which has a much higher melting temperature)
Have you made any glassware with this yet?
Thanks so much for making these videos! I used to do some glassblowing, but the cost for acetylene etc kept me from pursuing it on my own time!
Thanks! Ive been experimenting with it! Im editing a video now(hopefully it will be up sooner than later) of using a blow lamp to work glass. its suprisingly challenging and I certainly ran into a number of bumps, but theres alot of historical precedent for glass being worked with these lamps. T.P. Danger wrote a glass working manual in the 19th century dedicated to the use of the blow lamp, and the range of glass ware he suggests can be made on it is suprisingly extensive(all well using very hard glass, including flint glass) so far its been promising but elusive😅
Thats amazing
Nice progress with your "experiment" sir. You're the expert now!
Cool!
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Thank you very much! I really appreciate that.
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Has nothing to do with the topic, also your “Prophet” was a child rapping, mass murdering caravan robber who by his own admission may have been possessed by a demon. Anyways, Jesus is indeed the Son of God. May you be led into truth and away from the falsehoods of Islam. To you sir Muslim I recommend checking out the book “Seeking Allah Finding Jesus” by Nabeel Qureshi. Anyways, let’s watch this blow torch thing!
I can't get over his accent, I've never heard someone replace every "or" with "er". I hope this doesn't come off as an insult
At Greenfield Village in Michigan I watched a woman use an alcohol "lamp" to solder tin together. She'd light it and blow air through a pipe on the other end. It was impressive and opened up a whole world to me, how folks used to do things prior to electricity, and a technology to be potentially used for other purposes. This oil lamp blow torch is the first iteration of this idea. Like a mini blow furnace.
Missed that on the field trip in school. Neat place
Greenfield village is the shiznit
Okay the milk being used to seal the terracotta is genius, this is what i love about this ancient technology.
the mind set is also important, we now know the reason the milk sealing works, but then they only knew it worked not why. I find in modern times their is a tendency to reject the possibility of something working before trying it because it has no yet discovered reason for working. it works in the reverse too, modern people for years would claim to not know nicotine smoking and cell phones might lead to cancer because no link was proven officially "scientifically" and their ability to see the truth was clouded by their addiction.
@@Amipotsophspond "and cell phones"
Either I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to claim, or you're trying to sneak some pseudoscience BS in the middle of what might otherwise have been a reasonable statement. Sometimes we *do* understand things. We understand electromagnetism extremely well, for example. The only way a cell phone is going to increase someone's risk of cancer is if they eat it. Hopefully I just misunderstood, and you're not actually trying to spew that garbage about 5G or gay frogs or jewish space lasers or whatever other brain rot they've come up with these days.
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@@AerialTheShamen Wherever you read that, you should question that source. They were probably trying to sell you something. The waves used by a cell phone are nowhere near energetic enough to do anything like that.
If your source was being at all honest, they were probably talking about something other than cell phones specifically, and you took it out of context. Hopefully that's all it was, and not someone peddling "alternative medicine" BS to you.
truly impressive
I just imagine some dude in an ancient shop just laughing at you, telling you to Get Gud at torch to always be blue
Not "blue" but "copper" - referring to the meme of the ancient greeks calling the open sky "copper" in color xD
@@Brakvash they could be referring to blue copper rust i.e. copper carbonate as looking sky blue
i dont imagine old professionals to act like internet kids lol
@@Brakvashwine dark sea, surely
Nooooo the ancients couldn’t see certain colors nooo
Thanks for the Tip about tp dangers book, I found a virtual copy for free through Project Gutenberg. As you said, the table for sizing shows a very clear mathematical relationship between the size of the beak orifice and the size of the wick. Between a trip to the dollar store and a quick cruise through the internauts, I found most of the parts I needed to put together a working model for less than $5 CAD, including a bottle of lamp oil. Great channel, keep it up.
What size of 3D printer nozzle did you end up getting? I keep looking through them but can't quite find something that matches the ratios in T.P. Danger's guide, at least what should mathematically work.
Can't wait for you to bring back Greek Fire 🔥
Mate, this is super cool and original content you have here. You should write articles about this early historic scientific tool and possibly show how it could be used to carry out chemical reactions.
those are hreat ideas! i'm definitely eager to try some chem with it!
@@fraserbuildswriting would be so much clearer and understandable. That way you might utilise your new understanding in a manner which would enhance lives.
Neat! We have a curious overlap in projects. so I will share some of my tips:
-Less fuel, or more air, your flame is to reductive, aim for a neutrals or slightly oxidizing flame.
-Pine and spruce rosin are excellent fluxes for soldering(and on theme), use it, it will change your life!(Along with some linseed oil the also make a nice varnish)
-There are some great books on the sciencemadness forum library, on scientific glass blowing.
As payment I'm probably stealing this burner concept, when I do a pottery steam:P
But really, some fine content you have here, keep it up!
thanks! I appreciate the advice, those are some good ideas, best of luck with your projects!
@@fraserbuilds Thanks! And you as well! Let me know if you ever need anything turned on the lathe, or any high-fire pottery. Or simple boro-glassware. Could do a collaboration as the kids call it.
thatd be dope! ill keep that in mind.
IS THIS THE FINAL PIECE OF THE "LAMPWORK" PUZZLE IN MY HEAD
I haven't specifically looked it up but I've slowly been picking up bits and pieces, and I knew lampwork meant a lamp was used...
But I can't be the only only one who thinks of "blowing glass" ONLY as inflating molten glass like a balloon? This is SO COOL!
I'm obsessed with antique glass beads. I 100% want to build one of these!
Thank you for the awesome video!!
So THIS is how lampwork glass was made!
Fascinating ❤
I think it's important to preserve this knowledge even beyond what is required for academic study. This provides a level of democratization of trades to a certain level, in a world where things are becoming increasingly more complex and restrictive, being able to create your own tools, even if they're messy and less accurate, is valuable. It means that no company will ever be able to completely control the production of goods.
Well said, comrade ✊🏿✊🏾✊ workers were able to create their own tools before industrial slavery
You put words to something I've been trying to verbalize for a long time, thank you!
I’m a Glass Blower and let me just say, I’m extremely glad the Tech has come along way. But you do have to respect the masters who created with such primitive tools.
This is absolutely fascinating. Never knew blow torches were used in the 1300s! This is great
I absolutely adore the work people like you make, experimental archaeology is one of the best things ever, finding out the ingenious ways the ancients dealt with issues that nowadays are taken for granted is something I've always loved about history
I got taught nothing of value at school it would seem and this lad shows me something I've never seen in my 73yrs. Thanks son.
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@@danb9447 EVERYTHING I learned I learned after school. I became an autdidact but thank you for the compliment.
how did you find this knowledge.
why wasnt it shown to us in school.
i have a playlist called MasterClass, Wood, Stone, Metal.
you are the first one under age 30 to make it in.
lucky bastard.
This is an amazing video. Your research, imagination and dexterity had me subscribing immediately. This (and cats) are reason enough for the entire existence of RUclips.
Point of note: In the late 1960s we had to make many of our own glass implements in high school chemistry classes, though we were using small table torches.
Thank you! I wish chemistry classes would bring that practice back, it sounds like fun to me 😂
You should make and sell these sets, this is awesome and would be a great intro to lampworking. I’d buy a set for sure
It took me 12 times of him saying terch to realize he's saying torch. You have an interesting way of talking. Awesome video. Also is that an accent or a lisp?
Not sure you know what lisp means, as the dude clearly doesn't have one.
poured = perred, porous = perrus My best guess is UP of Michigan or some part of Pensylvania or New England. I know what you meant by lisp, wrong word to use but being aggressively obtuse seems to be some peoples' only superpower.
its just a speech impediment
I thought it was an accent or dialect I’d never heard before. Has a pleasant air to it.
Bro. It was physically painful to me, to see you with your finger out in front of the saws, and the chisel. Eventually you ARE going to slip, or have a tool break, and then you are going to get a seriously damaging wound on your finger. You might even end up with a life-long disability, lose a tendon or damage a joint.
If you work with tools, the only way to get to retirement with all your limbs and fingers is to never put them wherever you wouldn't put your dick
Specially true for disc cutters, sharp tools and heavy stuff
He was definitely reckless with the chisel, that made me cringe, but he didnt get remotely close with either of the saws.
@@prime-viscosity What part of "Eventually you ARE going to slip, or have a tool break" confused you?
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 it didn't, numbnuts. What confused me is you saying his fingers were "out in front of the saws". You seem sure of yourself. If thats the case, re-watch all the parts with saws, and reply to me with the timestamp of when he gets REMOTELY CLOSE with either the coping saw or the backsaw.
More importantly, don't ever talk to people like that again. I know you only said it because you can hide behind a screen, and wouldn't even think about it if we were face to face, but I figured I'd let you know anyways. Don't ever talk to anyone like that unless you're OK with losing some teeth.
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Okay... I guess this is where the word blow in blow torch comes from.
I have absolutely NO IDEA why this popped up on my YT homepage, but dang am I glad it did! I cannot wait to try this out!
Let's hope that YT does not become a censor.as with NYTN YT problems!
bro, this vid appeared out of nowhere on my "for you" and I was hooked on it till the end, love that you try old ways of doing things and that you make your own tools, definitely gonna watch more of your vids
Thank you :)
This video is not only informative, but inspirational.
I feel compelled to make one. 🤔👍
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Thank you! best of luck!
My chemistry set (when I was a kid in the late 1960s, we had those, with actual chemicals in them) had instructions for making something like this using an alcohol lamp to draw a glass tube that then became the blowpipe, allowing things like heat piercing a test tube without distorting its shape (the heat was so concentrated that most of the glass never softened).
Hey dude, when civilization collapses, where do I sign up lol
Most Intriguing craft i've seen. *Thanks!* ... if you would, _please turn down music_ to help *increase information volume.*
I might also respectfully suggest not repeating the same music over and over throughout the video- that was a bit distracting.
Or drop the music completely. I’m good with the natural sounds. Does the blowtorch make a sound similar to the modern version?
I’ve never heard it pronounced TERCH before.
i heard "furrest" too lol
He's said a lot of things this way. More mer, absorb abserb. Think its a dialect thing
That’s what you took away from this?
Thank You So Much. I have been wondering how smithing of small parts were done in antiquity, without melting a whole part. This made so much sense. I am Grateful for Your Works, and Sharing with Us your finds, historical contents, and builds. Infinite Thanks 🙏🚂🎼🌹🎶🎵⚕️🛠 ~C< 3)>>-Z->}
A simple old-school soldering iron (actually a pointed copper block on a rod) does the job perfectly well- soft solder doesn't really need a blow torch since it's mp is very low. That being said, you need a charcoal brazier to heat the copper block, so an oil lamp-powered blow torch like this is more practical for small jobs to be sure. Actual brazing or silver soldering, on the other hand, does need the extra heat and this kind of blow torch is good for those.
This is the tool I was missing for the early medieval jewelry-making set. Thank you for sharing your journey and for the inspiration!
there are a some simple bellows filled by pedal action and compressed by stones on the top, could allow for more effective continuous airflow, similar to some blacksmith bellows
ive actually been working on a pedal bellows for exactly that! hopefully ill have it finished up sooner or later 😂
7:26 bro has mastered the hamon
It is really fun seeing this as I've just started my work as a jeweler, and decided to go with a blowtorch instead of the modern torches due to the higher level of control.
I feel like the old way of controlling the flame with your breath is the true way to work the torch, and it is beautiful knowing more of its history.
You should link all the books you mentioned.😉
That's really cool. I had no idea why they were called blowtorches.
I love hearing all the historical context while you bring these projects to life! Great channel.
thanks! :) more to come!
glass becomes liquid. you were too mesmerised by your progress to notice that you held your hands below the dripping points of molten glass.
very cool video! ive done the same with a candle or a zippo, can be used for soldering in the field in a pinch!
It can be a really handy trick!
Absolutely underrated channel, deserves more views and subs
Excellent video John- this was pretty cool. Mouth blow torches like this are still used by jewellers today- I've seen ones in Germany who use a little alcohol lamp and a blow pipe with a rubber hose to solder silver. I expect they're still taught to use these during their apprenticeships.
And I suspect the 13th century mention you note is just the earliest one you found, not actually the first; nor is the device itself only 700 years old since people have been soldering and brazing for more than 2500 years, and using bellows to make fire hotter for more than 3000. It's an easy step from bellows to a blow pipe, so it's hard to think that the ancient Greeks, Persians, and maybe even the Egyptians didn't use them. It might actually be that they just weren't mentioned in any surviving literature for the same reason that the lathe is only given a passing mention by the likes of Pliny- it was so well-known there wasn't any point. I'd be curious if or anyone like him Pliny does mention blow torches...
The sheer precision with just those materials for said "blowtorch" is really good. A small flame traveling with a tiny cylinder of wind.
I have never heard of a blow lamp but its efficiency begs the question why we spend money for the torches we have today. This thing is so simple and at the same time so effective! The torch i have is cumbersome to work with in comparison
for the same reason one employs automation over handcraft - greater speed of production and ease of replication. The end product of automation may be of lesser quality, but the speed of production reduces the market cost
@@pegasBaO23 Yup
Who needs skilled labor and to be attached to a table?
I'm an artist and would love to make one of these for my little smithy, but by and large people don't respect, or have time or money for artistry
I suddenly feel the strong urge to be come an alchemist. testing his new ideas using innovative technology of earth and flame. To strengthen and improve common materials using what can only be described as elemental magicks and clever techniques. Utilizing these very materials to create fixtures and tools to further my alchemical practices. Gold strong as silver, copper strong as iron.
7:25 If I take nothing else away from this video, this is the point where circular breathing clicked for me. Thank you for that.
Get a cleaner fuel, like an alcohol, melts gold and glass.
Can use a resovior like a pop bottle, air tubes and a foot pump, you can get a constant air flow...
I did just that in my video on the 19th century version of this tool, it helped a ton!
why have i never seen this before, awesome video bud.
These videos and the history in them make me love humanity again
A number of years ago I was working for an electrician as a tender. We had a job to upgrade the wiring in a local museum. Turns out that the museum was running a display of magnificent glass pieces of Art that were created using a blowpipe. The clarity of the glass was exceptional. The beadwork and weave patterns using multiple colors was breathtaking.
I wish to thank you for presenting this video to us. 💖
As a sculptor (in academics, at least), it gets difficult to inform, or have others actualize, that the state of technology is not a "high" or expanded as most people believe. I really appreciate this museum-quality-information demo. I don't doubt I might have to refer to it to admonish a misconception with action against my presence of being.
It is also reassuring to know that I *can* fabricate more technical creative works outside of a very expensive workshop.
Thank you.
Your bravery in attempting to educate this generation that seems to believe Romans had iPhones but see fire as heretical aught be commended.
@@uxb1112 I agree: scouts and lookouts shouldn't get penalized for mediating when they do
Did you just melt metal with some oil and your mouth damn subcribed for that
Brilliantly done. What a great channel this is.
As a kid, I had a Gilbert Chemistry Set that came with a small alcohol burner with an attached blow pipe and piece of tubing.
I never thought to try it for soldering or brazing.
Great another hobby to add to my list. Thanks
The milk residue in ceramics could also be caused by using milk fats for fuel.
Amazing! For years I've been wondering how goldsmiths used to solder their jewelry! Thank you for this contribution. A lifelong mystery in my life has been solved!
You say its about 1300 AD, as I uderstood, and I am sure you have strong basis to say so, but I'll say that theoretically such clever and simple invention could be used far earlier, even thousands years ago. Anyway, amazing video, thanks for sharing.
I agree! clear accounts of it dont pop up untill the early renaissance, but it was very possibly in use long before then.
Just discovered your channel, and just about drooling at all the amazing videos you've put out! I must have saved half your channel to my watch later, and really looking forward to learning from all of it!
Thank you :) Glad you like them!
When I was about 8, my dad showed me this effect with a candle and a syringe needle (he was a doctor), and it absolutely blew my mind. With almost no apparatus we could get temperatures hot enough to soften glass and poke holes through glass bottles. It was incredible! I had no idea that this was the original blow torch though.
On another note, I couldn't quite finish the video. The constant looping of a 10 second long lofi beat was driving me absolutely crazy. I suggest at least decreasing the volume of it a bit. Alternatively, I know this takes more effort in the edit, but decrease the volume and also switch up the music occasionally. I feel like you've got a very Clickspring style of video here, which is amazing. He also does background music really well.
Clean edit. Concise. No bloat.
Subscribed.
Thank you!
Just stumbled across this video and you've just added another subscriber to your count. The narration is a lovely mix of just narrating what you're doing, what your thought process is, and the historical background of things. Love love love seeing people learn new techniques and as a metalworking tinkerer myself the sheer variety of skills on display are very impressive! I can tell a lot of care goes into your projects :)
I wonder if the ancient Romans and Greeks also used this sort of device. It doesn't see that difficult of a device for them to have conceived. Often things in medieval documents have origins from ancient times that were lost. Just a curiosity on my part. Nice video.
I think its very likely it was used by ancient people! unfortunately, if it was whatever writing on it there was hasnt remained to this day :(
However we do know they used blow pipes with charcoal furnaces, and there are some small glass artifacts from the ancient world that appear to have been made with a blow-lamp. but because those artifacts could have been made other ways its hard to say for sure.
Also Leonardo da Vinci was more a collector of knowledge than inventor. There were no photocopiers in his age, so everything one could do is look into a book and write it down by hand and make drawings. So nowadays his state of "universal genius" is a bit exaggerated. He is one of the few medieval scientists whose papers have survived. Many of the things on his drawings may have been known a millennium before him.
Were these ever paired with double bellows? Like for blacksmithing? (Double bellows being bellows that push air on both downswing and upswing)
yes! it was common to have a table with multiple lamps for multiple artists all fed by one treadle bellows under the table. theres a cool video by the corning museum of glass on here that shows a genuine lampworking table from the 1800's with a bellows built in
Beautiful turch, great job saving the furests!
I was starting to think I was the only one that was hearing that
I heard it too, but my brain was making it "er"s not "ur"s
I’m a lampworker and really thought this was cool check out the old Norse glass torches. Thanks for the video I enjoyed it very much!
Thank you!
Amazing recreations!! Looking forward to more videos!
im getting mur and mur excoited fur yurr vi'eos, keep it up
This is incredible! Your attention to detail and historical accuracy is amazing.
Amazing video
Incredible! I've never seen anything like it. I love this ancient technology! Well done with your pottery too!
Thank you!
I don’t know if this was ever done but i wonder if some sort of continuous air could be made with some sort of foot system like a small foot operated double bellows or rotary vane impeller dunno i don’t think i have ever seen anything like a impeller fan but maybe… i know cultures all over the world had to come up with ways to blow lots of air for a long time for iron/steel making and i could see glass workers sometimes needing more consistent and sustained air to get the most time out of those oil torches
bellows operated blow lamps were super popular! in fact they still exist today in some glass shops.
That's not a speech impediment, but the gentle voice of your spirit.
Subscribed.
Put a squeeze bag or bellow on the blow pipe like bag pipes . This may increase oxygen levels and reduce soot. Great video 👍👍
Please keep it up.
Could someone use a Egyptian style oil lamp if they already had one or would I need to make one from scratch
pretty much any kind of oil lamp should work! even candles can be used this way, though the jet is smaller on a candle.
Here at the library we come across Quite a bit of information but this one did impress please keep proceeding, I'm hoping that you take this Torch idea and make it in moderate times if not we'll work on something similar🎉❤❤
This only just popped up in my feed, damn algorithm! Brilliant stuff mate! I had no idea that's where the name "blow torch" came from. I truly learned something new today. Bloody brilliant! I'm definitely subbing. Thanks too 👍
Great that you keep the old methods alive! Westernkind is amazing and resourceful!
2:42 - 2:47 totally thought you said whole ferrets, i thought "damn thats a squirrely animal to use for fuel" 😅
all those poor ferrets😭
Never knew anything about "Hysterical Terches" thanks for the knowledge. Tell those "furrists" to keep up the good work. Gonna go impress my glass blower friends now...
We learn murr and murr every day.
sealing up the purrs
Beautiful works my friend, loved the milk sealing technique, and the nuzzle part also awesome!!! thank you!!
Also in the end I see something that might help, if you could find someway to regulate the wick as well, the amount of fuel burning, that would take it to the next level. At the end for example when you say you are having a hard time with carbon deposits. By lowering the fuel burning, the proportion of oxygen increases etc, you know.
Maybe some type of valve system in the clay lamp, like steel gateways idk, to allow you to give more or less fuel.
Also have you seen gasoline torches?, those are very similar, but they use a foot pump to blow air.
Tirch, hysterical terl, my goodness, can someone hire a narrator to read his lines?
This is an interesting subject, which I want to know about- but why the loud background music? A large part of the audience for something like this will have hearing damage from being around loud machines for years, and that music makes it difficult for us to hear you speak- it also adds nothing to the video. We are here for knowledge, not music.
Very cool but the pronunciations grind my gears. Blow terch being the most repeated
Man has a speech impediment don’t hate him for it
Get over it?
Wow. I think ive found the coolest RUclips Channel Ever
Utilizing some small bellows or even a moder oxygen canister could probably produce a hotter flame too, by introducing a higher concentration of oxygen. Might remove alot of yhe sooting issue too
This is really cool. Ive never seen anyone use this, and it seems so much more efficient than using butane torch or map gas. Although, technique will definitely be a factor
Man I just found your channel, liked and subscribed. I have to tell you, I just started experimenting around with carbon felt wicking material. Basically it is felt that has been carbonized, but fire doesnt burn it down.(it lasts almost forever) It wicks oils VERY well, even vertically. There are quite a few YT videos on it, but if you are interested just respond here if you have any questions.
Also, I am an experienced welder, brazer, and acetylene cutter - you can easily add a small valve before your nozzles to fine tune even further. Looks like you are using 1/8" tubing, they make stainless steel valves that size for commercial ice makers, and also salt water aquariums
Thank you! Ive used carbon felt before but never considerrd using it as a wick! I'll give it a shot! thanks.
@@fraserbuilds Can't wait to see the vids