is my little dragon in trouble?

[Jeremy D.N.]

my new knight came in the mail today, its great. i dident know what to run it at, so i have been using 5/10 for about an hour on it. during my test drive i noticed glowing spots on the torch face. when i turned it off, it looked to me like molten metal, very small. i figured that this is a normal flush of shit from my torch's guts, or that something is terribly wrong. if somebody could tell me what was up, it would be awesome.

[UmaJulz]

Hon, that just looks like a little carbon build up. Just carefully brush it off, and try using a little more O2.

I'm sure some other Dragon users will pipe up with more specifics. Don't worry, it's not dead.

[Jeremy D.N.]

i dident think it was dead, just that the flame might be a little hot and was burning out the tubes. ill try more o2 though

[Greymatter Glass]

try 20 psi oxygen and 3-4 psi propane. I haven't seen a torch yet that would be hurt by 20/4 even if it's not ideal for YOUR torch, it's a good jumping off point.

-Doug

[Chris Juedemann]

That's a great picture.

Chris

[Jeremy D.N.]

its a great torch, thanks alot guys

[somberbear]

you have to give it enough gas to push the flame off the face of the torch , if you run it to low with out enough oxy .... youll get carbon ..... if you start seeing the face degrading like litteraly taking metal off the torch shut it down and make sure.... if you get carbon while your working knock it off with a peice of glass rod real fast....

if you let that sit on the face it will pit it.

peace
rob

[Jeremy D.N.]

so i have made adjustments to my gas mix several times, but i still get this build up. could it be bad propane?

[mer]

i think it could be. the place closest to my house gives me propane that leaves carbon on my face so i switched to a new source and it went away. look for a place near a trailer park, they go through a lot of propane.

i've been told i'm crazy to think this so you can take it with a grain of salt but it's probably worth trying if you've tried everything else. seems to have solved the problem for me.

[VED]

my seargent used to do that. i just used my tweesers or a peice of glass rod to brush it off while the flame was going. its kinda anoying but i dont think it ever caused any problems.

[kbinkster]

It's not the pressures you run on your regulator, but how you run the flame with your valves.

What kind of candles are you running? The longer your candles, the more yellow/white-tipped they can be. The shorter they are, the less tips they should have. If you haven't already. try running smaller yellow/white tips and see what happens.

[kbinkster]

BTW, make sure you clean your torch inside and out. Any carbon leftbehind tends to grab more carbon.

[CitizenNot]

torch boogers suck

[skip]

dude I blew that picture up in photoshop and That carbon build up is Gene Simmons as none other that the lord jesus crying.

You are blessed.

[ALIEN!]

lol I can see it skip!

[Jeremy D.N.]

what would you recomend for cleaning procedures? turn on the gas and do a once over tith a metal pipe cleaner?

[Jeremy D.N.]

and the propane i have is old, at least a couple years. i figure that is at least part of the issue

[Batou]

REGIS-- enough with the anti porn-- it makes me sad