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04-24-2006, 02:16 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY
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|  welding brake line
Should I use oxy-acetylene or propane? I have read that oxy-acetylene is better. But it seams more expensive. Id have to get the oxygen, the acetylene, the braszing rods and the flux. All that comes out to quite a bit. With propane, would I still have to get the braszing rods and the flux? |
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04-24-2006, 02:37 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wheeling
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Just use mapp gas like you would on a propane torch. It heats up the brake line faster then propane.
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04-24-2006, 02:39 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: between heaven and hell.
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You can get a mapp gas set up at Lowes or Homedepot for $35 to $50. You won't need the oxy with it. The mapp gas alone works well by itself.
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04-24-2006, 02:47 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Where in the world am I going to get methylacetylene-propadiene? EDIT: never mind...question was answered just as I was writing this. |
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04-24-2006, 02:52 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wheeling
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You can get mapp gas from any hardware store. It's usually around 6 to 8 bucks for a bottle.
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04-24-2006, 03:27 PM
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| Sinking with the ship   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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mapp gas and haris safetly silv 56 and your good to go... Mike |
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04-24-2006, 04:44 PM
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04-24-2006, 04:58 PM
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| PapaGriz Yo  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
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I moved this to tools and procedures. I like to mig weld my brakeline. I recently switch my welder to .024 wire and it works excepionally well on the thin metals now.  I have never brazed but I have the stuff to, the local Ace Hardware guy help me cuz he was even experienced in brazing. Not like those unhelpful Home Depot folks.  |
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04-25-2006, 09:40 AM
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04-25-2006, 01:48 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Minneapolis
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I, like most people around here, use the harris flux that comes in the white plastic container, and has the blue writing on the outside. I think I paid about $7.50 for the container. Speaking of which, how dried out does this stuff get? I haven't used the flux in a couple months, and now its a bit dried out and doesn't smear as well as it once did. Still seems to work Ok though. can you just throw a little water in there to get it pasty again? Sorry for the hijack.
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