Good job, sir. Somewhere about 25 years ago, when I was a kid, I found one of those torches, and it was malfunctioning exact the same way you described in this video.
Mighty fine job. Had to fight these as well. Especially if you get a manky tin of gas but there’s seems better of late. I have an older one with a screw in jet will give this a go to see if I can get it cleaned. Thanks again 👍😁👍. Bob
I like how he nonchalantly gave everyone the finger. 😂 Great tip for fixing the pen torch. Maybe next time you can tell us more about your next project.
Thanks for the video. On my pencil torch, whenever it misbehaves, I've had good results blowing down the nozzle with a compressed air gun set at a lowish pressure (say 1 - 2 bar). Quick & easy.
Yup. Learned that after buying the cheapest butane refill bottles I could get. They tend to gum up my lighters parts. The more expensive butane is filtered, resulting in less gummy impurities and a cleaner burn.
Even if it was only £2.50 it's still worth fixing. I use a chef's torch for small jobs, but I guess that one is good for very detailed work. Cheers Nobby
Good job, sir. Somewhere about 25 years ago, when I was a kid, I found one of those torches, and it was malfunctioning exact the same way you described in this video.
Mighty fine job. Had to fight these as well. Especially if you get a manky tin of gas but there’s seems better of late. I have an older one with a screw in jet will give this a go to see if I can get it cleaned. Thanks again 👍😁👍. Bob
I like how he nonchalantly gave everyone the finger. 😂 Great tip for fixing the pen torch. Maybe next time you can tell us more about your next project.
Thanks for the video. On my pencil torch, whenever it misbehaves, I've had good results blowing down the nozzle with a compressed air gun set at a lowish pressure (say 1 - 2 bar). Quick & easy.
Saving this one to my "Watch Later". I have one of them in the garage somewhere 👍👍
I had one of these a few years ago and I never could get it to work properly. Wish I'd known this then 🤣 Cheers, Alan.
Great for soldering the copper pipes to boilers.
I always heard it was the quality (or lack thereof) of the butane you put in these that killed them. Thanks for sharing!
Yup. Learned that after buying the cheapest butane refill bottles I could get. They tend to gum up my lighters parts. The more expensive butane is filtered, resulting in less gummy impurities and a cleaner burn.
You can also spray IPA through the with a spraycan with a tube.
Thanks for the tip. I use a lot of these for my steamboat power plants.
Useful tip. Thanks for sharing
No pun intended.
Even if it was only £2.50 it's still worth fixing. I use a chef's torch for small jobs, but I guess that one is good for very detailed work. Cheers Nobby
What kind of buildup on the disk? I have two, and one have the symptoms as you show here.
I belive it is impurities in the gas that block the jet.
Very interesting. Nice work.
What if u lost the lil disc?
You buy a new pencil torch.
Fair play to you I was struggling with trying to get I going thanks
Nice one. Thanks for that. 👍
It would be cool if you could replace the puny gas cylinder with a hose attached to a larger cylinder for extended working time.
My friend has done this. Not difficult.
❤
I VERY CAREFULLY used an acetone (overnight) soak.
Why not soak the head with the disc inside
Im guessing you didn’t watch the last 30 seconds of the video then? 🧐
@@Davidm1fcf i did
superb vid thanks, but I had great difficulty in seeing the tiny disk, that I'm sure I'll never be able to do this job