doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DIY Gunsmithing @ doublegunshop.com Heating / Torch Setup

Heating, yes- with a rosebud tip-- but to get brazing temps, nothing works as well as an oxy/acetylene torch. Do you know how to get a neutral flame at the tip with your torch set-up.

You can, in a pinch, use a cutting tip/head on a combo torch for pre-heating mild steels- but for efficiency and less overall usage of acetylene, use a rosebud tip.

For a heating oven set-up, oxy/propane works fine. Mapp is way more expensive than propane, at least where I live and have my shop set-up with my son-in-law. RWTF

Mapp torch is brill, the type plumbers use with the trigger igniter is handy for general shop use.

Heat treatment oven for springs and tools.

Heat gun is pretty handy for all sorts, heat bluing small parts when needed as the color change is slower and less aggressive and you can watch it carefully, good for warming finishing oils and heating stocks to burn out the oil that they have soaked up.

Have a big propane tank with a bigger nozzle for doing rib work and such.