Trade glass lessons for guitar lessons or work in your shop.

[glassaxis]

^^No, I am just talking about the outer fire green valve. You can run them without doing this. It is just so you get the full range of the lynx.
It is easy to kill a GTT by not using all three knobs in a given stage of the torch, like using the green and blue knobs as a primary and a secondary. They go together to make the right flame. I know a guy that killed a Delta Mag by running it this way and he didn't realize he had even killed it. He didn't use the blue knobs at all.
I almost destroyed mine a while back by accidentally leaving a very tiny flame on when I thought I had turned it off when I had it bolted to a lathe carriage. I came back five minutes later and had to spend 30 minutes cleaning it to get it back to normal. If I had waited longer it would have been toast and I would have had major problems making a living on my backup torch while I had the Mirage rebuilt.

[TlkQ]

Why on earth would you spend all that money on a GTT and then use it like a standard surface mix?

[glassaxis]

^^That is precisely why people should start on standard surface mix torches. Less to think about while figuring out how to work glass.

[ronnieclaymusic]

I see what your saying, and maybe it's because it's the only torch I've used but I feel fairly confident I'm using it correctly. I've never used a single oxy valve torch so I'm not sure how different they are. I'm not claiming to have mastered it by any means but I do feel I researched it and figured out how to use it safely and in a way that would not destroy it. I did not jump into glass blind.

I did reasearch for at least six months before i bought the equipment and countless hrs studying how to use the equipment. I did not like the idea of buying equiment and destroying it through my own ignorance lol.
Though at any time forgeting or not noticing things such as the small flame you mentioned could happen to anyone on a bad day.

I appreciate everyone's advice you guys are great.