Thanks for the video. On my pencil torch, whenever it misbehaves, I've had good results blowing down the nozzle with a compressed air gun set at a lowish pressure (say 1 - 2 bar). Quick & easy.
Mighty fine job. Had to fight these as well. Especially if you get a manky tin of gas but there’s seems better of late. I have an older one with a screw in jet will give this a go to see if I can get it cleaned. Thanks again 👍😁👍. Bob
Even if it was only £2.50 it's still worth fixing. I use a chef's torch for small jobs, but I guess that one is good for very detailed work. Cheers Nobby
Yup. Learned that after buying the cheapest butane refill bottles I could get. They tend to gum up my lighters parts. The more expensive butane is filtered, resulting in less gummy impurities and a cleaner burn.
Thanks for the video. On my pencil torch, whenever it misbehaves, I've had good results blowing down the nozzle with a compressed air gun set at a lowish pressure (say 1 - 2 bar). Quick & easy.
Thanks for the tip. I use a lot of these for my steamboat power plants.
Mighty fine job. Had to fight these as well. Especially if you get a manky tin of gas but there’s seems better of late. I have an older one with a screw in jet will give this a go to see if I can get it cleaned. Thanks again 👍😁👍. Bob
Even if it was only £2.50 it's still worth fixing. I use a chef's torch for small jobs, but I guess that one is good for very detailed work. Cheers Nobby
I always heard it was the quality (or lack thereof) of the butane you put in these that killed them. Thanks for sharing!
Yup. Learned that after buying the cheapest butane refill bottles I could get. They tend to gum up my lighters parts. The more expensive butane is filtered, resulting in less gummy impurities and a cleaner burn.
Saving this one to my "Watch Later". I have one of them in the garage somewhere 👍👍
I had one of these a few years ago and I never could get it to work properly. Wish I'd known this then 🤣 Cheers, Alan.
Great for soldering the copper pipes to boilers.
You can also spray IPA through the with a spraycan with a tube.
Nice one. Thanks for that. 👍
Very interesting. Nice work.
Useful tip. Thanks for sharing
No pun intended.
It would be cool if you could replace the puny gas cylinder with a hose attached to a larger cylinder for extended working time.
My friend has done this. Not difficult.
What kind of buildup on the disk? I have two, and one have the symptoms as you show here.
I belive it is impurities in the gas that block the jet.
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I VERY CAREFULLY used an acetone (overnight) soak.
Why not soak the head with the disc inside
Im guessing you didn’t watch the last 30 seconds of the video then? 🧐
@@Davidm1fcf i did
superb vid thanks, but I had great difficulty in seeing the tiny disk, that I'm sure I'll never be able to do this job