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    Default Micro gas fuel torch

    Not sure whether this is a question for the jewellery crowd or not, or perhaps the welders. We are currently cleaning out a cupboard in a workshop welding bay that contains a lot of old oxy/acetylene gear in it. It's being chucked because of the unknown condition of the seals as well as some of the hoses are looking pretty crusty. There are some odd looking torches in there though and some of them look a little like this. I can't confirm a maker's name although I think I saw analine or something similar stamped on the valve block. Not sure whether it is oxy or air, or what the fuel is (I suppose it could either be propane or acetylene)
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    We rarely do much in this welding bay besides TIG or Stick and it would not have been used for at least 4 or 5 years, but there may be others at the uni who would very much appreciate it (glassware makers maybe?) if we could identify what it was.

    Any ideas?

    Michael

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    Looks like a carlisle hand torch can be used for various trades mainly in the jewellry industry can be set up with bench mount for lampwork (glasswork) although most glass workers prefer the dedicated bench mount cannon type
    burners, if they want to sell put my name down

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    If you're at a university I would say check with the scientific glass blowers if they still employ them. I wonder how you go in this day and age with no easy way of fitting flash back arrestors and being in compliance with standards?
    Put my name down too please if any need re-homing

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    The torch looks like some of those we used in glass blowing classes at uni in the early 70's. They were attached by a bracket to benches but could be easily removed for freehand work.
    The Uni I worked at last had a scientific glass blower in the 1980's. After he retired he continued to do some small jobs for the uni from home but these days most chemistry experiments are done using specialised very small minimum volume glassware, and in some areas plastic, especially teflon, has almost completely replaced glass.

    Apart from a handful of 2 and 5L pyrex beakers, the odd burette and some quartz glass distillation units, from the mids 1980 onwards teflon containers dominated in the sample prep labs I worked in. One reason was we also used a lot of hydrofluoric acid which dissolves glass but ordinary soda glass was just too dirty and could not be cleaned well enough to prevent sample contamination from the glass. In place of regular glass test tubes and beakers we used hundreds of 3 to 500 mL Teflon FEP and PTFE beakers. To store chemicals we used HDPE or FEP teflon bottles. These were very expensive to begin with but as their use increased the prices became reasonable. Specially prepared quartz glass can be cleaned and is still used in reagent distillation units.

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