silent-flyer
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Hi,
I am in the process of setting up gas bottles for general heating and welding. The last gas welding set I owned over 30 years ago was Oxy-Acetylene, which of course ticked all the boxes in terms of a shielding gas that could do everything.
Obviously since then, acetylene has gone up in price and has generally fallen out of favour due to costs and the need for extra safety measures. As a result, the next best gas appears to be propylene, but it isn’t a shielding gas so therefore unsuitable for fusion welding.
As I like the idea of the flexibility of acetylene, I am trying to stack that up against bottle duration times/costs compared to propylene. Taking into account the price differences, does acetylene last any longer (or shorter) than a similar capacity propylene bottle?
HH
I am in the process of setting up gas bottles for general heating and welding. The last gas welding set I owned over 30 years ago was Oxy-Acetylene, which of course ticked all the boxes in terms of a shielding gas that could do everything.
Obviously since then, acetylene has gone up in price and has generally fallen out of favour due to costs and the need for extra safety measures. As a result, the next best gas appears to be propylene, but it isn’t a shielding gas so therefore unsuitable for fusion welding.
As I like the idea of the flexibility of acetylene, I am trying to stack that up against bottle duration times/costs compared to propylene. Taking into account the price differences, does acetylene last any longer (or shorter) than a similar capacity propylene bottle?
HH