Detroit Welding Torch

[Alstep]

I attended the Cabin Fever Expo a few weeks ago, a huge show dedicated to all kinds of model engineering projects.

A vendor there was demonstrating & selling a unique oxyacetylene torch. Welded up thin aluminum cans and cut 1/2" steel. I could never do what he did with my Victor torch. The cuts were clean and no slag. Not cheep, but looked like a very handy setup. Considering getting one.

Anybody here have any experience with it?

Here's their website; https://detroittorch.com/

[DougGuy]

$649 for the torch kit really isn't bad at all for what I saw it doing. You would need regulators and hose, and of course filler metals and flux.

I have been a welder 50+yrs owned many torches and tips, still own and use several of them, as good with a torch as I am, that saw tooth cut he made with virtually zero slag got my attention. That exact cut in 3/8" or 1/2" plate whatever it was he was cutting is easy enough with a fine cutting tip for a PRO, and I mean someone who is really "gifted" with a torch, but for a novice to do that? Yeah.. I see!!

And that metal was already red hot, and a narrow cut less than 1/2" away from what he was cutting would be GUARANTEED to slag up and weld back together to be beaten apart with a chipping hammer and then have to be ground to clean it up. Very impressed.

[abunaitoo]

That torch has been around forever under different names.
Dillion, Henrob come to mind.
It was always kind of expensive.
Always wanted to try one, but never had the chance.

[elmacgyver0]

If I didn't already have all kinds of welding stuff, I would be all over it.

[abunaitoo]

They do come up on evilbay, under the different brands names.

[waksupi]

I attended the Cabin Fever Expo a few weeks ago, a huge show dedicated to all kinds of model engineering projects.

A vendor there was demonstrating & selling a unique oxyacetylene torch. Welded up thin aluminum cans and cut 1/2" steel. I could never do what he did with my Victor torch. The cuts were clean and no slag. Not cheep, but looked like a very handy setup. Considering getting one.

Anybody here have any experience with it?

Here's their website; https://detroittorch.com/

Cutting clean with no slag is done with a good clean tip, angle, and how you move the flame. I was taught to do it well enough by an old timer, that he required students to cut a set of wrenches with the torch, to proper dimension and no slag or rough cutting.

[Snakeoil]

I go on FB (under duress) only because of group pages like the Lyman/Unertl page since there is no info or sharing forums on those scopes to be found elsewhere. For quite a while, a video add would pop up showing one of those torches. I'd never seen one before. Looked very interesting. But, I tend to view most if not all FB ads as clickbait and avoid them. Suspect the one in the FB ad is made in China by prisoners.

[john.k]

welding/cutting with my hand that close to the heat ......no way .....which was always the major fail with these things .........if Im cutting I d rather have a 'gas-axe' with 3ft long handle ............im always suspicious of demonstrations welding thin aluminium......generally a cheat using a low melt solder.

[ebb]

The best welder I know bought one and said he never could get it to work. I think that is one of those tools that "works on TV but not when you get it home."