Honestly, you are an exceptional teacher you really place the proper information at the proper location if you have a course and I was local, I would probably take it but I live on an island where we don’t have any of those things so I have to rely on videos from you. Thank you.

Wow! I am so happy to find this video. It has a lot of great information for torch types. I am taking a Jewelry Repair and Design class and I don't feel too comfortable using the bulky mapp gas torch they included in my kit for making a chain ID bracelet. I of course, have to form the chain links and solder them and I was wanting to use a small butane torch. This video cleared up the confusions for me. Now I know I can use the small torch. Thanks for posting this video.

Great video Greg as it covers it all with regard to torches. Thanks for this and keep em coming!!

Thanks for the detailed explanation

Thank you for the great content greg

There's just one thing to add for the small butane torches: Some of the cheaper ones have bad insulation and you can burn your fingers rather easily on those, so one should not go for a cheap torch here. Some of the more expensive ones (eg the new Durston butane torch or the Proxxon MicroFlame torch) can be controlled single-handedly in either your right or your left hand - I absolutely love that feature because the second hand is always free to do other tasks. On the con side against the butane torches may be also that you need to let them cool down before you can refill the tank - I have therefore 2 identical torches of the model I use as my main workhorse for smaller projects so I don't need to wait when one goes low on fuel.

Another excellent video

Merci merci merci Greg.

Thank you, sir!

Thank you! Great information

Terrific info, thanks!

Thankyou so much for clarifying this, I've needed this information!

Hi Greg great video. Man, I wish that I had done more initial research when I started off. I got through several cheap ‘plumbers’ torches and ‘kitchen’ torches before realising they didn’t suit what I wanted to make. In the UK it’s very problematic and very expensive to get acetylene gas. With hind sight I wish that I had gone straight for a mixed gas torch, it would have been much cheaper and more satisfying. I now have a good collection of torches but only use two, a Sievert jewellers torch with a needle jet and a pepper pot jet, this is a good single gas (propane) torch and I could manage with just this for most work but my favourite torch is a Flametech Lite, (sold in the UK as a Refrigerant Engineers brazing kit) this is a bit on the large size and is just like the standard oxy-acetylene torch that you’ll see in most engineering workshops. It runs on Map gas and bottled oxygen and, with a range of nozzles will do fine work or melt steel bars. If I buy another torch, it’ll be a propane and air (or oxygen) device, like your old favourite that runs on gas and compressed air, I should think that it’s very satisfying to know that you are in control of the consumables that the torch uses, no running out of bottled gases!! All the very best my friend. Kind regards . . . Andy

Also, I have a vent system set up in the ceiling that be like a strong vent that you would have for a bathroom vent and one on the counter that sucks away fumes as well. I generally put them both on when I try to solder notice I use the word try

Poking the algo. Great again Greg! 🎉

I quit silversmithing about 13 years ago, but I still have my torches, tanks, acetylene gas, and tools. Lately, I have a rekindled interest in silversmithing and I'm unsure if there is any danger of using my stored acetylene and oxygen gas. The tanks have always been stored upright. I have flashback arresters on each hose. I have the Smith Silversmith acetylene and Smith Littel Torch acety/O2. Thank you in advance

I have a Dremel handheld torch. I am having difficulty melting my solder. I don’t know if it’s because I’m using inappropriate flux. The flux I have is flux for stained glass. I do not have a charcoal block, but I have fire bricks. I have hard sheet solder. I’ve watched the videos which say clean the surface of the item you were soldering, as well as make sure as your solder is clean other than that I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

Hello Greg..............I'm working with 16 gauge steel. How to minimize distortion of metal? Thank you

Thank you for much needed information. 🩵🩵🩵