[Jewelry making - Article 00863] - [Orchid] An American (Little Torch) in Paris

[Trevor F]

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    Hello group.  I'm hoping the Euro readers here can give me a little
    guidance on using a Little Torch in France. 

    On one hand I've got an acetylene version American Little Torch with
    it's standard (9/16"?) hose fittings. At the other hand I've got
    small (500litre) oxy-acetylene bottles both with internal thread
    valves, about measuring 22.5 mm OD, which seems standard here in
    France. The oxy-acetylene rig has regulators but of course they run at
    too high pressure for the Little Torch. Local hardware suppliers
    don't seem to carry or offer regs that output at pressures useful to
    the Little Torch. 

    So I need low-pressure regulators (approx 0.1-1.0 bar or 0-15 psi,
    give or take) and the appropriate fittings. Would it be best to get
    the American Little Torch regs and adapt them to the French bottles?
    Are such adapting fittings available? 

    Or would it be better to scrounge up French/European regs in those
    low pressure ranges and adapt the Little Torch hoses to them? Anyone
    have a Euro supplier for such low pressure regs that they could
    recommend? I've asked and searched around for these without much luck
    so far. 

    One configuration I'd seen is a secondary, step-down regulator added
    to the standard industrial regulators to do the final 0-1 bar
    control.  Of course I can't find such a secondary regulator anywhere
    ... and I'd still need adapting connectors to fit the Little Torch
    which, again, I can't seem to find. 

    Clearly I'm a bit stuck here so any guidance would be much
    appreciated. If any one knows of a good "welding supply" shop in the
    Paris area that would be great too as I'm sure they could at least
    point me in the right direction. 

Cheers,
Trevor F



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