I was working at a dealership last summer as a service porter. I was 18. One of the mechanics asked if i wanted to help. The dealership sends out old cat converters to be recycled, but they could only fit in a certain rectangular box. The company that takes them requires that the exhaust collector must be removed since they were designed with the catalytic converter as one piece. Welp, they cut the exhaust collector off so it can fit in the box. He didn’t wanna do it and offered me to try it so he can continue working on other things. He showed me how to do it and what flame to look for, how to use it briefly. Only safety thing i was told was to wear welding glasses and some leather gloves, jeans required of course. So at my young age, hell yea of course id take the opportunity because i never used an acetylene torch before and it was really cool, i cut off like 2 of them, went fine. Come another day, same thing. Im cuttin it on the floor since its big and quite heavy, as im cutting i didnt notice my pair of green and red hoses slip under the exhaust where i was cutting cause the glasses are so dark i can only see the flame. Loud hissing sounds, almost like removing the air of a tire were blasting through the shop. Mechanic next to me, doing an alignment ran over and me and him are turning off the cylinders. I cut through the green hose and almost through the red one. I didn’t realize how bad the situation could’ve been until i heard of what a flash back is with this things, so yea i almost died as well as anyone within like 100 feet. So now im trying to learn as much as i can about these things and all saftey precautions to take and how these things happen, because i will be getting my own torch one day since i “love” working on rusty cars, gotta love Michigan.

I wonder how many lives have been saved by flash arresters..?

So what does it do? Looks like it cuts.

Just now my torch caught on fire at the handle scared the shit out of me, and when starting the torch it started popping I don't know if it's my O rings or not can you give me any feedback

This just happened to me while working on a refrigerator in a customer home. The entire torch turned cherry read. Luckily I was close to the tanks and had a wet towel in my hand. I'm getting me a set of arressors.

looking for a video on this machine that shows gas set up and pressure levels

I was mentored welding and acetylene torch, at a brick manufacturing plant. I spent 23 years learning the trade, and never once in all of that time did the company purchase or install flashback arrestors. I did start my own business( portable welding service) after 10 years of learning and I had an incident where a rebuilt acetylene regulator failed and allowed too much pressure to the hose. While I was cutting, my hand drifted down the torch and I felt a ball in the hose the size of a golf ball. The regulator failed and there could have been a catastrophic explosion right in my hand. I have since then installed the arrestors on all of my torches.

Thanks for the lesson. Great video.

if you dip the tip in your weld pool you can fire molten metal across the workshop and down your mates back

Just got a full torch setup. No one at the welding shop said anything about flashback arrestors? Thats sad. Thanks for the safety tips I'm ordering them now. I work with old school "pro" welders and i ask them simple questions about what they are doing when running the torch like what length of feathers they like to run? The 1 guy looks at me barks thats some beginners sh!t fuk off. Later as i watch him flame out by bumping the torch tip like 30 times and the torch keeps popping and whistling. I walk over to the bottles and all the fittings are loose the hoses the regulators every thing is loose and leaking in a shop with the big bottles. I think the big door being open saved us all that day and maybe the wind?+ me the noob can hear that torch is not right and I go check it before it had a chance to explode>but the big pants Texas 40 year pro told me that's noob sh!t stupid. He almost killed us all. I will never forget that and will always question safety even if some cocky Texan thinks he knows it all. Listen to your gut. My gut tells me every welder I have met from Texas is a prick.

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This tip is too close

The best truck.with the right tip and the right pressure level you can cut like glass very fast.

With no link to the product in the description and no price for the item once found on your website what's the point.

What cut chart do you use to obtain required bevel cuts please?

Which country are you from, if I come to your country, I can get a job?

My name is Adeel and I am from Pakistan and I am doing gas welding work for ten years

I heard that you only need arrestors at the propane/acetelyne hose?

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Why the porno music?

And next breaking news but wait there’s more now bubba this is why we watch our video before posting it lost the subject and what was the title

Looks cleaner and sharper than laser

where do you buy? can't even find a price. made in germany was all i could find.

how good is the quality when cutting stainless steel?

The first time I had a bad flashback with a rosebud, I was a 18 year old apprentice, and it burned back, popped like a rifle shot, and sent the fat part of the torch tip flying across the shop where it smacked the wall. And for that reason, I won't let anyone stand close to me when using a rosebud. That chunk of brass flying left a significant mark in the concrete wall it struck. That would have definitely been a workman's comp claim if it had hit someone

Is root gap issential

I personally like the hyperterm 105, but the 400 amp beast at work as fun

I’m only one simple cut into my career and I am Totally able to follow your flow and style of teaching thank you. I hope you have other videos…

Video quality is terrible. Blurry video when things are moving....

Thank goodness for the DMF solvent and diatomaceous earth fill in the acetylene tank. Way more stable but can really bite if mishandled

I just got a torch set at an auction cheap, needed new hose. Came with an old dockson and victor model wands. I got new hose and got a set of backflow stop/arrestors at harbor freight that screw on the torch side. If i stop it there i don't see reason to put on the tank side too unless you set the hose on fire.

Been a mechanic for 20 years. Never wore leather gloves just rubber. Used a torch and the fittings were loose and were shooting out flames. I was on a ladder and could not throw the torch off. I got a nice burn on my hand. Was lucky it was not worse. I was pretty pissed off someone did not tighten the fittings. But it was my fault I did not wear proper gloves.

I watched a 10 year old video of yours and you told us to Google regulator burnout. This video was the first thing that popped up. Lol it only took you 10 years to make this video

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Last day I wanted melt small amounts of gold oxide using HHO generator, after a few seconds I understood the handle of torch getting so hot, than being melting, I understood the gas burning inside the torch, I turned off the generator but still the flame burning inside the torch because its get super hot, than i put it in the water bath but i lost my torch, I don’t know why its happened..

Just had a situation where I touched a rosebud tip to an axe head I want to heat treat and it popped once. Torch seemed fine for a few seconds but then it started sounding like a machine gun was going off in my garage. Still not sure if it was caused by me touching the tip to the metal. The tips looked clean, but I will definitely have to see if there are arrestors on the acetylene set I bought.

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man, McMahon is really rough on those torches......

Specify the goal and need money

are the quick connects also the flashback arrestors?

It does not show you exactly how they go and where does the arrow go, to the tank or cutting torch head

WTh?

One question, what is the difference between a 3-hose torch and a 2-hose torch? is that I was looking at the manual torch and it has 3, instead the automatic torch has 2 hoses that feed it

And this is what the finished job looks like..... What?

Impressive...

Hello, we have bought this new machine and I wanted to know if you can change the language to Spanish. in the configuration it appears to select it but when you click it it says that it is not found and that you have to load it to the machine

Only ones that actually work They are worth their salt

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Get rid of the hard hat.