Brazing

[aclarke]

what brazing equipment do you guys use for refrigeration as need to replace mine

[kwatt]

Rig with a scorpion head.

Works so, so well and a lot let messy than other stuff, like turbo torches etc. Downside it of course that they cost more, last time we got one it was about £400 IIRC.

You can however get a turbo torch for about £70.

HTH

K.

[aclarke]

Re: Brazing

orderin one from hotfrost £510.45

[bagman]

Re: Brazing

I still have a microflame kit I no longer use. That’s the one with the Oxygen bottle and a replaceable butane canister of roughly equal size. I still have the scorpion bit as well. Haven’t used any of it for a few years now, so not sure what condition it’s in.

I’ll post a pic later if anyone is interested?

[bagman]

Re: Brazing

Just checked, mines exactly the same as that 5300 kit.

http://www.hotfrost.co.uk/products/hotsec06.pdf

I’ll go through some of my other stuff and put it in the Trade section at some stage.

[admin]

Re: Brazing

I use a turbo torch without any problems

bryan

[Gazman1000]

Re: Brazing

r600a wrote:I use a turbo torch without any problems

bryan

Me too.

[kwatt]

Heathens! 😆

Have you no finesse at all? 😉

Seriously though, the scorpion head is a really good bit of kit, you can get heat into and, all around, a pipe when things get a bit tight. You can’t do that with a turbo torch as you can’t contain the heat as well by a country mile.

I also find you get a much lower risk of a leak as the solder flows much, much better as the heat is distributed evenly and not all to one side.

But, to each their own.

K.

[Cras]

Re: Brazing

not used a microflame for years do you still have to re fill the oxygen from a large cylinder is there a safer way round nowdays ?. currently use a turbo torch and did untill recently have a porta pack in the workshop ,have to agree though micro flame s the best Cras

[expertcat]

bought my microflame from srw was £65 and they sell the oxygen bottle for about £11

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