Originally Posted by
Karl Robbers
I truly wonder how the human race survives.
We are scared of change in general, but once an item or technology becomes accepted, not a single care is given. In my 30 or so years playing with industrial gasses, I've seen acetylene superheating tips designed for a manifold system used on a single cylinder, dodgy hoses, acetylene regs cranked up as high as they will go, oxy and acetylene regs with seriously dodgy gauges used without a thought, cigarette lighters used to light the gas axe and gas cylinders with valves turned all the way on.
Apprentices are not taught properly anymore ad the public can buy from Bunnings with no proper advice.
This leads me to conclude that we are either very lucky, or oxy fuel gas processes are a lot more forgiving than we deserve.
Rant over, but I wish that just for once people would paint by the numbers and actually read the instruction book.