Blow torch for carbonising rim of a bowl
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SVB
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I use a standard (BnQ iirc) plumbers propane or butane tourch with a flow valve and that I have to light with a match each time. Mapp gas with one of those flashy one click combined on and lighter torchs would be great but at more than £60 last time I looked.
I've answered this before but the post has disappeared again - it happened on a thread I looked at yesterday as well.
Just buy a torch that takes a pretty standard cartridge. The expensive ones are usually expensive because the are more complicated with anti flare devices, which of course is great for a plumber using it in all sorts of positions but of negligible value to you. A small one such as are used in kitchens, such as this https://www.amazon.co.uk/TTMOW-Refillab ... orch&psc=1 would suit if you wish to vary the degree of burning - you wouldn't have so much control with a large torch.
Just buy a torch that takes a pretty standard cartridge. The expensive ones are usually expensive because the are more complicated with anti flare devices, which of course is great for a plumber using it in all sorts of positions but of negligible value to you. A small one such as are used in kitchens, such as this https://www.amazon.co.uk/TTMOW-Refillab ... orch&psc=1 would suit if you wish to vary the degree of burning - you wouldn't have so much control with a large torch.
Robbo3
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Mark Hancock advises the use of MAP gas because it's hotter ... but I can't remember the reasoning behind it.
Hopefully he'll provide an answer as he's a member.
Hopefully he'll provide an answer as he's a member.
Thanks all. I went for this one as I was passing b&q
https://www.diy.com/departments/gosyste ... 618_BQ.prd
It works off a butane/ propane mix, seems nicely made and did a great job of burning my first rim (it easily created a good even blackness and didn't take long).
It opened up a surface split that was already there - I really like it and want to try to encourage it in a few more, if I can (just in the surface -
any suggestions welcome!)
Cheers
C
https://www.diy.com/departments/gosyste ... 618_BQ.prd
It works off a butane/ propane mix, seems nicely made and did a great job of burning my first rim (it easily created a good even blackness and didn't take long).
It opened up a surface split that was already there - I really like it and want to try to encourage it in a few more, if I can (just in the surface -
any suggestions welcome!)
Cheers
C
