Torch & lamp

[mcniven]

What is the best on the market for blow lamp? Iv been through so many!!

And do you all use the map gas (yellow?)

 

[GQuigley67]

i use the refill bottles, and my blow torch isnt the greatest so i wouldn't recommend, cheap ones seem to do the job just as good

 

[JCplumb]

I'm with GQuigley67 on this one, I paid through the nose for a torch when I was at college, it was a good torch and lasted years. A few years ago I went to an overfilling toilet job that was about 15 miles from my home, it was the only job that day so went in the car and just took the tools that I would need.
Turned out that the feed coming into the bottom of the loo was pulled over at an angle and would need cutting/replacing.
As my torch was a 30 mile round trip away I went to a local DIY store and bought a cheap torch with gas included, I think it was about £18. I still use that torch as a backup or in jobs where it might get nicked or knocked about etc. and I've never ever had a problem with it that a needle in the burner couldn't fix.
It's a messier flame than a more expensive torch and heating pipes takes a bit longer but it gets the job done.

 

[Dannypipe]

There's another thread on here chatting about this as we speak.

The general view is a Super Fire 2 is best. I use Mapp, but thats because I'm slow and need all the help I can get.

A lot of people prefer propane. Doesn't burn as hot.

 

[mcniven]

I prefer mapp mate find the sf2 too big a flame???

 

[Dannypipe]

I use mapp with a SF2.....I just turn it down a bit for 15/22.

 

[mcniven]

If never used a map with sf2

 

[Dannypipe]

Try it, come over to the darkside.

 

[mcniven]

Always spend a fortune on here! Tonight in but that wee saw thing an adaptor and blades and tomorrow a new rothy SF2!

 

[GQuigley67]

save yourself money in the long run with the refill bottles mate

 

[mcniven]

map burns a lot quicker though gerry eh?

 

[Mike Jackson]

I always find the primus gas very dirty. I'm a lot happier with Mapp.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

SF2 4 me .... use propane and mapp ,

i use slow flame anyway so not bothered which one i use !

 

[AWheating]

i use a normal brass non self starting torch for most work with mapp. I only get the powertorch out for large sized pipework or 1st fixing in middle of winter.

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

SF2 with propane,dont use yellow mapp burns to hot

 

[gasmanrob]

working on my house the other day and the rothy ran out, so trundle off to the garage chucked a few things out the way to reveal my old bullfinch! was doing a bit in a tight space and have to say i loved not having the bottle in the way and it was so light in comparison to a full rothy bottle. so have decided its getting a new hose and going back in the van!

 

[ManchesterGas]

SF2 with Mapp, think I'm going to try Propane after 10 years with Mapp as it seems to have gone hotter lately, maybe it's just me though..

 

[Roger Welton]

Sf2 here, changed back recently from mapp to propane and am preferring it at the moment.

 

[Mike Jackson]

I prefer Mapp as I can use a smaller flame, means less chance of scorching stuff.