[Jewelry making - Article 00765] - Re: [Orchid] Another torch tip

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>        For those of you (mostly goldsmiths) who need an extremely fine
>     tip, here's a suggestion you'll probably never read about in a book 

    No, but if you use a Hoke torch, you can buy for under 20 bucks, I
    think, a small adapter which screws on the torch instead of a tip.  It
    comes with six all stainless steel hypodermic needles, tips cut
    straight across, not sharpened. The adapter simply allows the torch
    to fit any hypodermic type lauer lok needle, which is what the
    included tips are.  Similar tips are also used with many of the water
    torches. 

    The trick of soldering in a length of small diameter tube to an
    existing Meco or Hoke torch tip is one I've seen, not in any books,
    but on perhaps the majority of jewelry repair benches, especially
    those driven by people who've been around for a few years or decades,
    and even more especially by those repair folks who did a lot of chain
    repair and similar tiny stuff. .  Most were simple brass tubes, which
    is easier to solder to the brass torch tips than is stainless.  a few
    bright fellows used a bit of more precious tubing, if that was what
    they had around. 

cheers
Peter

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