anybody know the flame temperature of a gasoline "plumbers blowtorch" type stove when it's burning blue? the kind in the center-left of this picture, on the dolly...
thanks for info guys :-)
toolie
The maximum flame temperture at the tip of the inner cone will be about
1900C if you have full aeration - pretty similar for all hydrocarbon fuels burning in air. Doesn't mean you can get a big piece of steel up to that temperature - that will depend upon all sorts of things like heat transfer rate and heat loss.
It is not so much temperature, it is how many btu's you can put out on target.
Is that what they used to melt lead to seal soil pipe before PVC?
Wes
It would have been nice if you had also posted the start point. It took a while to guess the starting point URL.
My opinion is that those bronze bearings were *not* cast in place in the steel. If they had been, there would have been no need for the key and the cotter pin. They would have had a firm grip on the cast iron (just from its as-cast irregularities, if nothing else). They were probably cast in sand.
No clues as to the temperature above. Stick a thermocouple in the flame to see what you get.
Good Luck, DoN.
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