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Have found someone who is interested in my burnout ovens, casting machine & torch, but he doesn't have natural gas at his building. He wants to do jewelery, so I'm casting gold and silver.
The only alternates I can think of is propane or acetylene, but my old memory says they burn too dirty.
Please, what are options?

Thanks all
C
 
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love is like Qxygen it burns you high together with Propane ok not 3000 C as with Acetylen but 2000 is not bad.
 
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Have found someone who is interested in my burnout ovens, casting machine & torch, but he doesn't have natural gas at his building. He wants to do jewelery, so I'm casting gold and silver.
The only alternates I can think of is propane or acetylene, but my old memory says they burn too dirty.
Please, what are options?

Thanks all
C
Actually natural gas burns dirty and propane burns clean.
 
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Propane has worked for me in the past as well as other of my lab friends. Hopefully the building fire code would allow for a small tank of it?
 
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Have found someone who is interested in my burnout ovens, casting machine & torch, but he doesn't have natural gas at his building. He wants to do jewelery, so I'm casting gold and silver.
The only alternates I can think of is propane or acetylene, but my old memory says they burn too dirty.
Please, what are options?

Thanks all
C

He can use oxygen/propane just fine,the acetelene will be too sooty.
 
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Depending on the locality, they may have to put a propane tank outside and pipe it in like is done with a propane range/stove in homes. But propane/oxy is perfectly fine for casting anything but titanium.
 
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I use propane. The torch is from Renfort. I just use the little green bottles.
 
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Thanks all.
It'll be interesting. He wants to teach jewelry at a charter high school that is located in a still functional wood working mill. The Blu Ox Millworks has an impressive history, and if he can add lost wax casting to the school curriculum, wow
 
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If hes just doing small occasional stuff, bottles of Butane would work fine. Burns cooler than Propane or Map.
 

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