A pair of old Brass blow torches

[Lostmind]

Someone here was asking about blow torches. The one marked" Wizard" is from Western Auto.
I didn't realize they were in buisness that long ago.
The second one is unmarked,but the same size.
Anyone know how you can tell what fuel they were designed for?
I see gasolene and alcohol listings.
Not that I would try to fire either one of these up.
I listed them in the buy and sell section.

[oldtools]

Nice torches
My dad had one of those, I think he used gasoline, also found an old 3 gal torch with long handle that use #1 fuel oil or kerosene..
interesting how they work, pump up, open to let fuel drip into bowl, light bowl to heat nozzle, then adjust flame when warmed up.
need to be warm to atomize gas properly.

[Bill Houghton]

I  think most of the blow torches that size used white gas - like Coleman stove fuel, and I've just realized that I'm dating myself again because a lot of the Coleman and similar stoves use propane these days.  I think you can still get camp stove fuel; I have no idea if it's still white gas.  One big difference is that white gas doesn't have all the additives that cars require to keep the fuel injectors from clogging up.

The one on the left is set up for holding a soldering copper, for sheet metal soldering and other heavy duty soldering uses.  Soldering copper, for those not familiar:



Still one of the best ways to solder sheet metal; and soldering is still one of the best waterproof joints.

It's my impression that most or all alcohol lamps were small things used for such purposes as soldering electrical wires (an open flame in an electrical box!).

[Lostmind]

I looked up one in an old Sears Catalog and it said the temp reaches 2300 degrees!
Mis print?

[rusty]

 the temp reaches 2300 degrees!
Mis print?

No, you can make steel white hot with those things !

The ones for alcohol don't need the little drip catcher/preheater trough under the nozzle.

I don't know how you tell the kero ones apart tho....

>Not that I would try to fire either one of these up.
what? Not feeling suicidal today? LOL

>(an open flame in an electrical box!).
They didn't really learn that one till some klutz set a nuclear plant on fire looking for an air leak in a wiring trough with a lit candle....