Oxygen-Acetylene: "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?!" - Kevin Caron

so I had a question the other day email came in can you talk about rocks to settlement a little feel one of the things you might want to look at one of the things you might want to be aware of what could possibly go wrong no I think that's one of the first things you really ought to pay attention to when you either set a new set up a new sad or you you break out the old set because it's been in the cabinet for a while look at your hoses check your hose especially where they make nice sharp bends look to the regulators and stuff look for any cracks in the liners if they're cracked get rid of them don't even keep them around but they're cracked then they start the leak then you have a fire and then you're running out the door with your hair on fire making all kinds of weird noises check your whole system for leaks each and every time you use it not during the day but knowing first thing in the morning get out your little squeeze bottle little soapy water your little dish soap will work just fine a couple drops of it a little bit of water just enough to make it bubble turn your valves on get creme you'll get pressure in the system and come in with that soapy water squirt all your connections now in few years now even on the on the torch on the handle or on the torch body itself it'll check all of your connections just a little squirt that's all you need you get a big burst of bubbles off of it you got a leak shut everything off fix it don't keep using it another thing to keep in mind you've got plenty of hose don't bring the bottles over right next to where you're going to be working your hose winds up in a big coil right underneath you where all the molten metal is going to be and you got these two bottles that are basically bombs sitting right next to you move those out of the way get them away from you a little bit stretch those out get your hose out of the way so you're not tripping on it you're not blowing hot spar the molten metal on it they'll keep it a little safer safety gear we got to have some safety gear you're dealing with explosive gases you're dealing with molten metal you're dealing with sparks going everyplace you fire one of these things up puts the safety glasses on not these these dark glasses to go with the flame so you can see what the heck you're doing you're going to want to wear gloves again not these cloth back on it we will mesh back on them sparks just go right through them you'll wind up doing the little chicken dance and throw and torch your app put on some welding gloves but on some gauntlets big leather heavy gauntlets so you don't have to mess with the sparks you're not going to burn yourself your hands you're not going to set your gloves on fire all right clothes no cotton cotton no jeans you blue jeans or something like that preferably leather you'll put a leather apron on put the electrical glitter sleeves on close toed leather shoes not sneakers not flip-flops not barefoot and I'll dress accordingly for what you do in there so you don't get hurt another big topic of discussion when you're working with it how far do you open the valves on the bottom personally I like to open up a quarter of a turn so if there's ever a problem I don't have a quarter return to shut them back off a lot of guys believe that because of the design inside the valve there's actually a above and below the outlet the seal below right now is sealing all the gas through keeping the gas in the bottom keeping it out of the regulator but as soon as you open - now it comes by pressurizing regular but the seal above it normally seals the shaft of the valve to heat - and coming out of top a lot of guys just like to open it all the way and bottom that seal out get the top of the regulator or the valve body to keep - and coming out of here what if there's a problem now you got to turn that thing on the way back in again again shutting it big big controversies one way or the other no I like the quarter turn a lot of guys like all the way whatever works for you however you feel comfortable but there's the pros and cons of the directive and one more thing to keep in mind okay you've used it you're done with it you shut the valves off do you believe the pressure off pretty I'll leave the pressure on it's in the system between the valve and the torch it's up I like to leave the pressure in there for a little while half an hour you know you're all done with it it's all closed up look at it again in a little while and see if the regulator see if any of the set of readings have changed so if your pressure reading is dropped you got to leak some points cook it your soapy water come back and flame that leak fix that late if half an hour later both of them are reading exactly the same the system is tight then just go ahead and open your valves up and bleed your pressure off store it you're done with store them one last thing real quick store it if you're not going to use these for a couple couple three days a week whatever you have no plans in the immediate future form put your safety caps back on pull your regulators off coil them up right in your basket you know put everything down there out of the way put your safety caps back up leave them change your color set them out of the way someplace where they're not going to get knocked over bunk with them if you'll leave the regulators on and the torch is near the torch cart gets knocked over if you run a real good chance of snapping the regulator off or snapping the valve off that's not good oh I hope that gives you something to think about it'll take them to heart if you want comment down there don't forget that subscribe button and please come out to my website and sign up for my newsletter I'm gonna go back to work you guys have a good

Channel: Kevin Caron, Artist

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Id: WZ4iizqM4GI

Length: 6min 50sec (410 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 30 2014