I've seen several patterns that require melting materials to form eyes, bend legs, and so on. Does anyone have recommendations for torches or heat sources?
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I've seen several patterns that require melting materials to form eyes, bend legs, and so on. Does anyone have recommendations for torches or heat sources?
Butane lighters work great.
Regards,
Scott
I have one of those mini butane torches as well as an old fashioned small alchohol lamp. I prefer the alchohol lamp as it does not generate as much heat and it is much easier to control. You can usually find the alchohol lamps on the sites that sell rod building equipment. Also, the fuel is much easier and cheaper to obtain.
Jim Smith
While I'm not allowed to use sources of open flame:shock:, I, with close supervision, can use the cauterizer (battery operated) to cut threads, burn eyes, melt mono to make eyes.
heat up your bodkin to bend legs. just be careful to only touch, remove, touch, remove while holding the material in a bend. and obviously this will not work on meltable materials
light bulbs work for shrink tubing
Check out this thread from a previous discussion of the same topic.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...ery-substitute
The nice thing about cautery is the battery operated one lasts just about forever and the tip cools "almost" as fast as it heats up... and the batteries last just about forever... I've had my battery job forever... almost three years and it still heats up instantly. The alcohol burner I quit using once I got this unit. The alcohol burner is the next best thing... for a broken lid/cap you can use a shot glass. It works in a pinch and almost stops evaporation completely... ;)
Being of the male mindset that it is more expensive and time consuming to make something yourself rather than purchase said object. Here is a alcohol lamp that I made out of a emply bottle and lamp parts I got at Hobby Lobby and the hardware store. NOTE: you will want to vent the bottle with a small tube (red tube in picture) or you will create a flame thrower! Trust me, I know!
http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/...lcohollamp.jpg
Most of the fun came from emptying the bottle... be creative!
I use a Cobra Pro Weld....It says on the side of it .....The original Plastic Welding Tool....also this Ph# is on it as well - 1-800-458-8603
www.cobramarine.com this one takes 2 A batteries and works really well for clearing hook eyes etc,.