Old School Blow Torch Soldering Iron: Antique Tractor Radiator Repair
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2020
- Just about every time this old tractor is put to task, it ends up low on coolant with a tiny mist blowing back from the fan. Investigation revealed a 270 degree crack in a radial pattern around the neck of the fill tube. It'd be a simple repair for a normal guy...so what do I do...??!! I make it as hard as possible by choosing to make the repair with technology that was outdated in the 1940's.
Many people have heard of 'blow torches' but few younger than myself have ever used them. Oh, there are the Old Sneelocks out there, but we both know he and I are in the minority. There is an art to running a pretty bead of solder by this method and if you think laying a 'flat' bead is hard, you should try a vertical bead. For those with less than a ton of experience a vertical bead is next to impossible. I've been successful on a few occasions back when I was a pup, but its NEVER been an acceptable joint in appearance. My technique was mostly to slather any quantity into the joint that would stick, wasting 90% of the solder, then going back with a much lighter iron to gently melt the blobs off the outer surface to tidy its appearance. Successful...? Yes. The way to do it...? No. Learning to be proficient with a blow torch as recently as the mid seventies is not un-like an executive assistant learning to be proficient in 'short hand' today.....and those blessing this planet from 1980 to now may even have to google that term to even know what that is. LOL.
Ok...now on to the recording blunder.... I took care to set the camera perfectly to get really good video of the actual soldering process but when the 'record' button was pushed I failed to start the video.....the full apology is near the end of the video. I wasn't a happy camper to find that failure.
So hopefully you enjoyed at least some portion of the video and understand now a little more about the mysterious 100 (+)year old technology. If you are an old timer that has in fact mastered it for yourself....my hat is off to you !!! I don't deserve that accolade.
If Old Sneelock happens to stop by....we touched the tip of the iceberg on the 'iron' shelf as well as the 'torch' shelf..... You never know, maybe I'll go back to soldering lead sheets into shower bases again or soldering water heater drip tanks or evaporator drain pans maybe even the occasional sump pump tank.......Oh yeah...lead or sheet metal pitch pockets and roof flashing for plumbing vents might find their way to the layout table.....!! But don't hold your breath....LOL. - บันเทิง
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Nice lesson on old school inventions
Thanks for the compliment....you gotta wonder what some of those guys were thinking when they come up with a good idea.
Been there done that on filming Wendel, no problem. I have a couple old blow torches and watched my grandpa use them. I split some Cherry today and dropped a Ash and Cherry then bucked them up, take care buddy.
I'm sure there are a lot out there still using them like Mr Fixit and Old Sneelock, but I guarantee we are in the minority. With the irons OR the blow torch. I worked up a bit of oak a couple days ago and am tuning up the buzz saw for some pole wood now. Got tons of it stacked right by the wood shed.
Good to hear you confess that you are human. But even more so, honest enough to admit it. Many would say they just could not video and complete the repair.
Hahahaha...I'm finding out through comments that a LOT of guys have done similar things while making a video. Now I don't feel so dumb....LOL.
Thanks for sharing this despite your recording issues! I always wondered how those old blowtorches worked!
I think there's another old tractor leaking at the top but I think its a hairline fracture in the brass tank. So rest assured there will be no misuse of the camera when that one comes into the shop!! I was more than mildly irritated at myself because this solder job on the neck of the fill tube went quite well and would have been a near perfect demo vid. Thanks Darrin for your interest. Btw, an old buddy gave me a near new iron last week that is the tiniest I've ever seen !!
I owned a collection of those blow torches. Used them in my youth. Gave then to my eldest son. I just turned 69 and Feel we must be kin. I have twenty old tractors , 4 sawmills , 4 bulldozers and too many chainsaws to count. also a cut off saw. Just square bailed hay with a M farmall and a 272 new holland bailer. We where having deep well pump problems. My wife and I pulled that 450 ft deep well pump ourselves three times in the last two years. I installed a device called a cycle stop valve and cured my troubles. I dont split my firewood. built a outside stove that can handle bigger wood than i can lift . Any road I enjoy your videos.
What an awesome comment Randall. There certainly a lot of similarities....I have two complete sawmills and parts of three others that will make more than one more. LOL. Only one little crawler though plus a skidloader, two backhoes and a number of loader tractors of all different colors...even an Allis Chalmers Road Patrol. I've lost track of the total number of tractors years ago....I've found its better to not have a specific number in mind when questioned by the Missus. Hahahaha. I do have an M parts tractor though...and two H's.
Yes, I pull my own 400' well and a number of others around the area, easily 15 without trying to count, the most recent just a short while ago. I got a junkyard build of a well rig that looks like the devil, but works just fine.th-cam.com/video/p1JLQeNz_l8/w-d-xo.html. I had help from the ladies on this one. For the most part the ladies keep the fires going during the day so we split to make it much easier on them handling the pieces. I am in the process of re-working an outdoor boiler that was totally destroyed in a fire, but its going to sit inside the shed where I've poured 1200' of pex tubing in the floor in four circuits. I saw a fellow on youtube that built one he loaded with a skidsteer. That wasn't yours, was it ? Thanks again for the enjoyable comment sir !!
44 never knew how to use one the one I had my son has now must look for the irons
God Bless All
PaK
Good Evening Peter. The old torches aren't too bad to figure out, but man o man, that solder seems to have a mind of its own sometimes !! It turned out pretty good though and isn't leaking yet anyway.
What a FINE video TR44 Friend! I certainly am tippin all me cups your way! I had three of those torches but most stuff like this took a long journey over the mountains heading west back in the early 90s. They went with furniture and many other things by night, when I wasn't here. But that's another story. I am hoping I still have at least one but I haven't used it for a long time. I don't have the soldering iron collection you have but may be half dozen including two old Bell Systems irons with turned handles and pretty heavy for my needs. Did repair an old copper wash tub years back and it was great for that. Have a few forged ones too. Ain't it something my Friend, how we wind up its all this cool old stuff because we Love it! You can feel all those vibrations and energies by those who had used these tools years back. Close your eyes and you can just about see the craftsman using the tool in your hands. Sounds weird to some but you know what I mean. I. Didn't get to see all the splitter wars vids yet. YT says I must go to a new format but doesn't tell me how. So if I watch something, unless I go to another vid right away I have to well,,,, it's been a pain. So I'll have to figure this stuff out on this old iPad. Anyway, I best git cuz it will kick me off and Illl loose this so this is DaveyJO and I'm outta here!p.p.s. I. Do have experience with video cameras and know well what you mean about turning on when your turning off! I once videoed a whole two hours of my shoes and floors. So an easy thing to do!
You're right about sometimes kinda feeling weird knowing so many tradesmen before you used this tool or that tool sometimes a hundred years before ! I feel that with quite a number of my old tools. I got a real good one coming up I BET a nickel to a do-nut you'll like. I have an awesome story on a Belsaw hand saw filing machine. (Actually its a whole sharpening shop full of tools). It took a while to figure it out and I am not totally sure I got it yet, but I'm working on it. You're gonna love the story though. Hey and you know what...I have one of the Bell Systems iron too....but its an electric one !! DaveyJO, we will see you later...enjoy the morning coffee my friend and hopefully you can get over to watch my much older brother work my tail off !! LOL
Tractorman44 Good Morning my 44JO Pal! I indeed am tipping me cuppaJO your way on this fine fall day! I did see you and your much older brother sweatin with the oldies. I tell ya, I thought the friction was going to set your t-shirts on fire! I only got to see three splitter wars videos and looking for the others. YT keeps taking me to last years videos. I'll find them eventually but this you must update deal is confusing to an old boy like myself who just wants simple. Like I've said, I have a huge brain but my skull is 3" thick! So with my dog sized brain I need simple and a good wall or bush to mark my,,,,,,,,,,I mean work on,eh? A Fine Thursday to You and Missus 44 and all the Clan including Stan! DaveyJO goin for a refill to toast the 44 Holler from this Holler!
@@daveyjoweaver5183 Hahahaha...three inch thick...!! LOLOL. Alice must dent the frying pan on that huh.. Now I'm gonna tell you something right here and now....I have a video I made and edited and have ready to upload titled: "Sweating to the Oldies- Old Tractor Old Splitter Old Man". LOL True story I've had it ready to upload since Sept 10th. All I gotta do is push the button. Hey about Splitter Wars...if you punch that link at the tail end of my video, it should pop up the whole list on one side of your screen. Have a wunnerful day buddy and tilt back another cuppaJO and I'll do the same.
Tractorman44 Yes Indeedy my 44 Friend, we have to have cast iron pans cuz they are the only thing that withstands my super skull with the huge brain. Thing is, I don't usually notice that I've been struck! Now I know why I've had those grease spots on my head! Now I'm heading out to a few Amish stores that I'm very thankful for. Amish general stores where you can get most anything. I bought 6 hooks to screw into the ceiling in Alice's studio for some of the many plants to bring in for the winter. I happen to stop at Tractor Supply where the hooks were $1.99 a piece, I needed 6, So on to the Amish Walmart where I go the same hooks for $.38 a piece! $2.28 vs $12.0! Even my huge brain in the thick case knew which was the better deal. Of course I had to stop home, get another cuppaJO, toast you, set down and make some note, an outline and some doodles and then discovered the solution, the Amish Walmart! I drove there the 4 miles with glee waving to all the cows, horses and mules along the way in jubilation! Bought a few other things as well! A guy with a shop can never have enough of anything. Plus replacing those things you can't remember where they are. Well I'm off with my notes, outlines, maps, a cuppaJO and another exciting adventure in the land of The Amish Nation! I tip this cupoaJO another time to my Pal in the west in the 44 Nation! DaveyJO Anna me outta heer!
Great vid . Still a good lesson. I use this type of iron to solder gas tanks or where you can't use an open flame . I have one like your biggest one , and heat it with oxy/acyt . The heat produces different colors on the head, as it is heating . It's been a while since i needed to use it though. Take care and stay safe against this macaroni virus.A young fella called it this, one day, a while back. And it got stuck in this old guy's mind. lol
Macaroni virus....LOL. Good one Mr Fixit. I've done the same, but with a prestolite (acetylene only) torch on midsize and smaller irons. That big one I don't think has ever been in a flame. No pitting, no discoloration at all. I had a guy wanted one of the large ones because he swore it was the best thing to 'flintknapp' chert or obsidian into arrowheads. Yes, I gave him a 3 pounder and never saw him again so I don't know if it worked or not. LOL
Thankz for the historical lessons
Hahaha...well like I said...may as well go for the hardest route to make the repair. LOL Hey man, its the way we roll.....
Hahaha,...I was looking at the video time running away, and wondered " when is he going to show us that soldering process?", then you came on and explained the issue.
Well what I said, you can't show here,..then laughed!
By the way Wendell we never used gasoline in my Father's blow torch,.we used a product we commonly called 'white gas', which apparently is actually known here in Canada as
Naptha, same principle though,..worked a dream too,..just like your torch was doing there. Iwish I could find my dear old Dad's torch now,..I think my brother-'out'-law 'stole it
( before I could! )
Thanks for the entertainment and stroll down memory lane. Cheers Brother!
Glad to have rattled the proverbial cage Reg. Dang them brother in laws anyway !! We had a 16' flat bottom, flat nosed gigging boat. It was home made and sealed with tar and painted gray. The old man soldered a piece of tin across the top of a small wash pan and a tube out of the bottom and a fill cap out of the top with the pan hung vertically now as a gas tank. He had a couple small hand valves in a 1/4'' line that dropped down to two small radial stove burners... Behind those rose a bent sheet of reflective tin to about knee high. That mounted on the front of the square nose of the boat. We used 'white gas' as well and would light the burners and shove off the bank. Standing on the front of the boat behind the reflective shield we would gig fish all up and down the creek...me paddling and him gigging catfish and the occasional carp. The light from the gas burners would penetrate the water very well and not reflect back in your face. One time we tried a car battery and a hand held headlight and couldn't see a thing. We went right back to the home made white gas set up !! I think my much older brother has it hanging in his pavilion right now. Now that was a long story with very little relating to soldering.....LOL. But it was about white gas though. One memory sparked another..... Take Care my friend.
@@tractorman4461 Top notch stuff,...thank you!
Looks good from where I stand.... I`m no expert with the hot iron either....I love my electric one....never run them blowtorch but seen my father fight a few time with them....enough to know that I should stay away and find another way ....Good demonstration and don`t feel bad for the mist best part of this video....happen to me a few time but I didn`t admit it....It would have bin hard ta do in your case.....CHEERS
Hahahaha...yeah, I know a blind guy that'd pay good money to see this solder joint !! Thanks for the compliment Gator. I'll have another solder job one of these days. I guarantee I'll be more careful with the buttons from now on.
ROFL....A "Senior Moment" on the on/off camera button (I can identify with that, on my GoPro). Now THAT is real-life project work. I watched the whole thing waiting for how much heat would be bled off with all that brass, and it was missing. I suspect that it took a good amount of heating with the iron to get it hot enough to let the solder flow out, and the flux to flush out the crack. Now, I'll never know how that worked, until the next soldering video. Maybe you should go to the two-camera-method, so you have a backup camera to catch the action, if one camera fails.
I have one devil of a time remembering what to poke on the GoPro...so it gets used sparingly. It does give a superior video as compared to this cheapie I'm using. I was just careless with the camera paying too much attention to the torch/iron to get it just right and blew it. No excuses though.
About the brass, when the iron is touched to the material, if the iron doesn't have enough heft, it will lose temperature and barely get a bead started and have to be reheated. Bigger is better (as long as it will fit the space) because of the sustained ability to transfer heat to the parent metal and take solder. I was surprised to find the mid sized iron used was just about perfect in size because it took two heating cycles to solder over 3/4's of the way around a 2'' neck. Thanks for being kind about the disappointing outcome Powrguy, but nobody was as aggravated as myself.
How's she goin'? Nice video Wendel!!! Great to see the old tools and you have a good variety of soldering irons. And those are soldering 'irons'!!! Not like the ones today where it's basically a piece of copper that gets hot. Your's were massive slugs of copper!!! Too bad we missed the soldering but, like you say, we have all done that!!! LOL Take care!!
Well Mike thanks for chiming in and joining the growing club of guys that admit pretty much having done the same thing. LOL. Next time, I'll break out the whole pile of them...gas irons AND electric irons.
It happens to me many times, what a frustration, thanks for sharing some of your irons and blow torches, I have a Primus 632 ,
I need to give mine a good cleaning one of these days. Sometimes my mind is on the repair at hand and not too much on the video. Its clearly my fault of inattention. But, oh well.... Thanks Jan for the visit.
I love watching you take us back to how things used to be done! I love history! Keep the history alive my friend! Cheers
Well I started out hanging on the old man's shirt tail before I started school. Before I even knew what things were, I would help the old man's brother whose eyesight was almost gone grinding valves by removing and installing the valve keepers that he couldn't even see where to put them. Many hours I spent lapping valves with the suction cups on the wooden handles. Hours spent on the forge blower and thousands of hammer strikes drawing out plow shares before I got out of grade school. He got me starting to weld by the time I was 12...wasn't too good and not much better now, but it was fun, and surprisingly I thought it looked better than his....but like I said, glasses thick as coke bottle bottom he was lucky to hit the mark with the rod. So some of the stuff sunk in at least a bit below the surface. He was a good old man I tell you. Oops...got started and couldn't stop.
@@tractorman4461 that’s ok I learned all my skills from my father who isn’t well anymore. I love the stories and the history , thanks for sharing
I ve used a blow torch on my grampa s farm just like those. Nice job tinning the irons. Thanks, brought back memories.
Good Morning Don, that's good that you've gotten to use one in the past. One of the things I like doing with these videos is to let younger folks see some of the tools of machines the old timers used daily to make a living as well as jog a memory or two from folks that have actually seen or used some of them. Thanks for chiming in with your comment sir.
Another interesting video. Looks aren’t everything, as long as it doesn’t leak anymore is all that matters. Modern technology huh? Grandma said there would be days like that! Dang nabit thou why do they happen so often tho? Hurry with the 37 videos.
Hahahaha...thanks for the smiles. It actually turned out just on the right side of acceptable. Not too pretty but not too bad on the eyes either....kinda like that blind date by buddy fixed me up with one time back in the '60's. (-:
Dang, Wendell! I was so looking forward to seeing you use that amazing old soldering iron rig! But, I know how you feel. It’s very frustrating to discover you don’t have the video you thought you shot. And you can’t just retake somethings like this. Been there, done that! Thanks for sharing!
When I have another 60 year old radiator crack open, I will record ONLY the soldering process and do NO talking at all !! LOL. Hey...I didn't think our resident 'pro' youtube videographer and narrator even made mistakes while recording. Dang Martin...you ARE human after all...LOL.
LOL! That’s sounds like a good plan, Wendell! Shhh! You have to promise not to tell anybody! I’ve got a reputation to maintain. LOL!
I have one I still use once in a great while. I learned to use the old soldering irons working in a sheet metal shop right out of high school. One use I found for these old torches was replacing king pins back when we had real trucks to work on. Thanks for sharing!
I have a whole pile of the irons. I've picked 'em up at yard sales for fifty cents or a buck over the years. I have them from a couple ounces to three or four pounds. Those get your forearms aching pretty quick. My blow torches all need a bit of work to bring them up to snuff. But I have a couple that I use every now and then.
Even though the videoing got out of hand (which I've done many times) you answered all the questions
I had about the process. Thanks for the info
My excuse is lack of familiarity with the new to me camera. I did the same thing a number of times until I figured out WHAT I was doing wrong. Cleanliness and flux is the key...plus keeping the iron hot and tinned. I usually use two irons on larger projects, one to heat as the other is in use.
@@tractorman4461 Thanks for the education! Cheers from the shed
Thank you for posting this. I use the same type blowtorch, more or less, but here in Sweden, the soldering irons looks a little different. The copper chunk is angled 90 degrees to the handle. otherwise the same procedure. Becoming however difficult to find good soldering tin. They sell only lead-free tin and it is muck more difficult to use and require more heat. Thanks again for posting!
I buy a lot of solder at farm and commercial auctions, so I am lucky enough to have several spools of the good stuff yet. One of them is a ten pound spool. It's a new spool but probably 50 years old. I also got lucky one time and bought a whole box of lead body filler in the fat 1/2 pound bars. So I am still good for a few years yet.
I have many of the irons from very small to huge in size because I have been collecting them for years. I still pick them up occasionally at yard/garage sales when I find them for fifty cents or a buck. But I have never seen one made at a 90* angle to the handle. That's interesting.
Thank you for stopping in for a visit and letting me know you still use the old school torches.
That is a sorry feeling when the file opens and there stands the project and not a thing going on. 😠
Today's video that I made was the third pass at it. Fortunately it was only an old guy explaining something so getting him to stop explaining is a lot harder than getting him to start. 😁😎
I have been working on and with my batch of torches off and on for years. Once I get them working they tend to stay pretty well.
The handle rising up is an indication the check valve on the bottom is leaking. Since you only put a minimum of gas in the tank there might not have been enough to flow past the check and into the pump chamber. If it does the gas can start leaking around the pump stem. That gets exciting. Until either the fuel runs out or the pressure drops there is a jet of flaming fuel shooting out and around the pump handle. Since it isn't vaporized by the heat of the torch head it will travel until it dies out, burns away, or hits something. That qualities as a bad day.
I haven't had, used, or seen a block of Sal Amoniac in half a century.
My Uncle Rex gave me a zinc and carbon battery that was part of a bank of wet cells that powered the lights in a farmhouse he bought. They used Sal Amoniac disolved in water as the electrolyte. Dad helped me get it working. I think it got left behind when my folks sold the house.
They moved while I was at school. I usually didn't pay much attention to the goings on so they probably told me and I just didn't notice. At least that's what I tell myself. Anyway I came home from school to find the house empty. Fortunately they only moved about 4 blocks North to the Good side of the tracks. I was able to find them.
Still some of the hoard of trivial items I collected got left behind in the shed.
They only moved twice after that. I was able to track them down every time. 😁😎
PS It gets worse if you are using multiple cameras. The batteries go dead at the worst possible time. 😠
Thanks for another entertaining view of fixing what is broken. 😁😎
I learn something new with every one of your comments. Sal amoniac and water to make electrolyte...?? Get outta here..Never heard that before !! Yes, I've had the jets of flaming liqued gas flaming out of the torch as well as burning vapors out of the plunger. That's the main reason I use these outside. LOL. I think ALL my torches need a good going over but this one here has been my mainstay for probably 30 years or more. I was lucky...no moves for us. The old man was born in 1909 on the farm and never went anywhere. So our accumulations just stayed and multiplied !! (-:
Good evening Sir, Great explanation about blow torch work like Coleman stoves, Primus, Svea and Optimus were burning whales oil, paraffined etc,,, Great collection soldering Iron's and great explanation and great sence of humor ; ) I'm very sorry for you Sir about that video button problems ( it did and still did happen to me ,,, ) but you did an outstanding Job Sir on the Radiator tube !!! Keep up the good Job Sir and it is a great video and have a great week !!! Cheers !!!
I got lucky and didn't make the leak bigger !! All the coolant is staying on the inside now !! Blasted camera button....aaarrrrrgggghhhh. I will be much more careful in the future, but I am finding out a lot of guys have done the same thing ! So I don't feel too awfully bad now. Thanks for the compliment Dave and take care ol buddy.
@@tractorman4461 Thank you and keep up these great video's of your Cheers !!!
@@RCAFpolarexpress Ok Dave...just for you, I will do it !!
@@tractorman4461 LOL !!!! Very funny Sir You are the Greatest video maker into that tractor lovers of all YT Channels !!! Cheers !!!
@@RCAFpolarexpress Oh Dave...You got me blushing like a teenage girl on her first date....!! LOL. Have a GREAT day mon ami.
Thank you for posting this video, I learned a lot. 👍
Thank you. It still aggravates me to have missed recording the best part. A LOT or work has been done with blow torches back in the day ! Thanks again for watching and taking the time to comment.
All is okay👌.... Just learning there are SO many of the soldering irons out there to hunt down and purchase was just enough of needing to view this video.
I learned a whole heap of, "didn't know that", stuff today. Wow. Thank you!
👍👍
Hahahahaha.... I like your username..... good one. I started picking these things up at yard sales and farm auctions when nobody wanted them. Now their prices are plum stupid in the antique stores !! I didn't bring out but a few select ones to show variations. The coolest are the ones over 100 years old with forge-welded handles and heat-twisted and treated handles by old blacksmiths 50 years before I was born. Keep your eyes peeled, you'll find them all over at farm auctions and estate sales. I've kept my Dad's and Grand dad's separate from the pile though. They ran a dairy back on the farm in the twenties through the start of WW2 and my Grand dad would cut out copper letters one at a time about 1 1/2'' tall of the dairy name and town. Then he would sit in the blacksmith shop and solder our last name and home town around the perimeter of the ten gallon milk cans with the old irons and blow torch. Thanks for the comment !
@@tractorman4461 I'm kinda doing that with all kinds of old & vintage tools, heaters, torches, old flasks, hand warmers..., even insulated jeans. Lol
I get em cheaper when I catch 'em. 👍👍
@@bullsh3176 Cool. I've even collected some V-8 engines for my kids for the future. Chevy 350's. 305's, 235 six's, Ford 460's, 289's and 302's plus some tractor engines too...LOL. And of course a motorcycle engine or two as well. They don't eat a thing sitting on the shelves....
That was very neat! I've seen so many of those old torches used as decorations but this is the first time I've ever seen one in use! Makes me feel a little spoiled with the propane ones lol
They are very handy to have if they work well. And easy to use too but on bigger jobs you use two irons so one is heating up as the other is being used. This one was a pretty simple fix. I just can’t believe I missed the best part !! Operator error. LOL.
@@tractorman4461 it happens lol meybe next time you can get the action on camera :p
Fantastic video, thank you
It really irritated me to mess up with the new camera. I figured out eventually after several more fails on following videos that it goes into a 'sleep' mode that required a double push to wake up and start videoing. Thanks Josh for the comment. Next solder job there will be no fail !!
awesome video man! i been thinking building one of these old soldering irons and have it so can mount to a modern blow torch
Heck yeah...it'll work like a charm. Don't forget the block of Sal Ammoniac for tinning the iron too.
Ok Wendel, aside from the one we made a lamp out of I have never used one of those torches, however I have repaired both radiators and gas tanks with a torch
As long as the gasket is good on the plunger the torch should work like it should...just need an iron and a sal ammoniac block and a little 50-50 you're good to go !!
@@tractorman4461 yes, but that torch is now long gone, went missing moving across country, along with many of our wood shop tools.
The Pump extending on its own like that, is a sign that the pad on the check valve needs to be replaced... These are usually cork or leather... You do not want that seal to go, whilst the Torch is lit... P.S. Always keep a CO2 Fire extinguisher handy, when you use any kind o' Torch...
Yes the old thing does need a good going over. My older brother bought a stack of the leathers as an old local hardware store was going out of business. I have several torches and this one seems to be the best to use. I hadn’t used it in years when I pulled it out for this repair. Some of the others won’t even build pressure. Thanks John for the comment.
@@tractorman4461 I rebuild Gasoline & Kerosene Blowtorches, If you need leather Priming Cups or leather/cork pads for Check Valves, I can set you up... P.S. Nice to see that I'm not the only one that still uses these wonderful old tools...
@@JohnSwampthingRae That's good to know about supplying parts. I will have to keep a note on your username. I do have several others in good condition except they do not generate pressure. So I assume you probably have a good selection of the soldering irons too ?? I just laid a few out during this video.
@@tractorman4461 Aye, I probably have 30 or so Soldering Coppers kickin' around... They are handy... Here's one o' my Butler 200's in use... Great ol' Torches... They burn very hot! th-cam.com/video/tgWkPlpQy-M/w-d-xo.html
Do you happened to know the names of the manufacturers of the irons. I have 3 of different sizes that were my Grandfathers as well as one blowtorch. Not too sure I'll ever fire it up though. Thanks for sharing the video !!
Oh man, no I really have no clue. A lot of the really old ones with the twisted wire handles were made by local blacksmiths. My blowtorch needs a little service to work a bit better. It wasn't burning perfectly well in this video. If your gasket is good in your pump you are lucky. You might want to drop a few drops of motor oil down the plunger to oil-soak the leather gasket so it doens't dry rot on you.
WHAT TYPE OF FUEL???????
Just plain old gasoline, Edward.