[Jewelry making - Article 00516] - Re: [Orchid] Gas Supply in Home Shop

[R Terry Glover]

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    I have installed natural gas in two home workshops.  The first one
    was in a three car garage in an established track home neighborhood.
     In asking for information from our local gas co. (before we
    started) they wanted to to know how may BTU's my set up would
    require.  We talked to Rio, where we bought my torch, Rio talked to
    Smith, we called Smith, we talked to our local jewelry supply house
    and they called their torch suppliers, we called a number of
    plummers etc..  We never got an answer. Figured a torch must be in
    the same range as my dryer. So my husband put a Tee in the 1/2 inch
    gas pipe that serviced my dryer and continued with a 1/2 inch pipe
    through a cabinet, through the adjacent garage wall to my bench.  We
    did not need a regulator nor an arrestor on the natural gas line, we
    just had an on/off lever. On the oxygen side we needed both the
    regulator and an arrestor. Called the gas co. to check out the line
    before I used the system and they said my husband did a perfect job.
    The oxy/natural gas worked great for all my jewelry fabrication but
    was a little weak for melting metals for casting. My husband then
    installed a "Y" to the oxygen tank and voila, I had both an
    oxy/acetylene system  and an oxy/natural gas system. 

    This should have been a perfect arrangement-- but my putting a bench
    and tools in what had always been my "husbands" garage became a
    problem. You see metalsmithing was a fairly new hobby to me and as
    long as I used our utility room inside the house for my stuff,
    things were fine.  So, a year later we moved into an older house on
    an acre that has a small guest house and a four car garage!!  I have
    the guest house and he has a really BIG space for his workshop.  Of
    course the whole house needs to be renovated and we have much less
    time to do our hobbies as we are doing much of the work ourselves. 
    However, the start of the renovation included a major upgrade to the
    gas line coming into the house.  This was done by a licensed
    plummer.  I now have a 3/4 inch line coming directly to my bench and
    this works great for all my needs.  Again, the regulator and the
    arrestor are only needed on the oxygen side. By the way, the first
    project completed in this renovation was MY studio!! 

Pat Glover 


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