Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Batz on September 24, 2013, 05:37:11 AM
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My latest torch, a Detroit No42 Auto Torch.
It nothing fancy but as you guys know I like flat tank torches and this ones from around 1927. Great addition to my collection.
Batz
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Really nice- and the little chap looks pleased!
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He is happy about it Papaw.
This is a nice old torch, if you guys see a nice torch, looks for these things.
It's a flat tank but these points refer to all shape torches. You will notice the hook on the burner is cast with the burner (not a threaded screw in hook)
The top and bottom of the tank are cast and the copper middle is soldered to these. Newer models where pressed. Often the soldering looks quite armature or messy, that's how they were turned out, it's not a repair.
The priming pump is in the handle rather than the tank.
Pick it up, it will be quite heavy if it's an older model.
Batz
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real nice torch, will keep an eye out for them...
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real nice torch, will keep an eye out for them...
I'll appreciate that.
Cheers
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Hi Batz, are you interested in something like this?
(https://www.mjdtools.com/auction/graphics/o13/279696_lg.jpg)
Note: It is 12 in. tall and has no maker's mark
Mike
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(https://www.mjdtools.com/auction/graphics/o13/279696_lg.jpg)
Mike
Hmmm... I wouldnt sell that with out a 4 page release of liability !!!
So it's a vertical blow torch ?
Brian
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It is kind of scary looking. I wonder what the original purpose was?
Mike
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Hi Batz, are you interested in something like this?
(https://www.mjdtools.com/auction/graphics/o13/279696_lg.jpg)
Note: It is 12 in. tall and has no maker's mark
Mike
Yes Mike, do you have it for sale?
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It is kind of scary looking. I wonder what the original purpose was?
Mike
It is a Bernz torch, No36. It was made especially for starting oil engines. (Bernz catalog 1916)
Unfortunately it appears to be missing the burner adjusting knob, or I can't see it from that photo.
Batz
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I have a shiny thing too, but it's not a torch
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2821/9956483265_34b864bd31.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/9956483265/)
SEP 279 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/9956483265/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr
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Wow, those old timers were clever, imagine that, a lamp that works sideways.
*ducking*
(Can't help wondering if the No 36 was for starting oil engines, or starting oil engines on fire...)
But I remember my grandfather telling stories of people lighting pans of gasoline and putting them under the engine of the car in the winter to thin the oil enough to be able to crank over the engine...
Everything works on fire .....
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They were hot bulb engines, this is German ( I think?) but you can get the idea how they worked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtUKnXW8M7o
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Hey Batz, seen one of these before?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Gasoline-Gas-Oil-Blow-Torch-/261295575422?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cd66e117e
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That's a military issue torch Branson, I have a straight burner one but not that model. Thanks for the link, now watching that one.
Batz
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I am watching also if you need our regular deal.
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I am watching also if you need our regular deal.
Cheers mate.
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I have two torches, saw my dad use one once, never tried it myself. Makes a neat side collection, mine is oil cans. Many of the early engines were developed before Bosch developed the spark plug. Had an elderly car collector show me this stuff 40 years ago. The hot bulb was platinum I believe, and required heating up with the torch, then it would stay hot enough to provide ignition under compression stroke. Think hot bulb on old model air craft engines.
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Lots of old tractors had hot bulb engines, I went to a big tractor show a few years ago and watched the guys starting the tractors using blow torches. Many went for the modern propane torches.
Batz