![]() Next, I needed to rent the oxygen and acetylene tanks. Victor is an excellent brand and I like the way the torch balances in my hand. I got a medium duty Victor brand set, complete with welding/cutting torch, hose, and gauges for the oxygen and acetylene. The cost had been stopping me, but it was finally time to bite the bullet and buy a rig. No electrical parts, no computer, just a hot flame that slices through metal. ![]() No angle grinder, no plasma torch, no shears, and, bringing me to choice number two, no oxy-acetylene cutting torch.Ĭhoice 2: Oxy-acetylene cutting torch. Two men were cutting strips off of 20-foot lengths of sheet metal roofing. Finally I got up and got dressed and went to check it out. Early one morning, 6:15 to be exact, I heard a hammer pounding a chisel on metal. I remember when I was first investigating Panama as a place for us to live, I stayed at a hotel in Boquete. I’ve written before about my plasma torch that died an electronic death, not to be revived here in the harsh Panamanian climate of rust, humidity, electrical brown outs and power spikes, and geckos that have the propensity of dying on circuit boards, “melting,” and shorting out the whole mess.Ĭhoice 1: Hammer and chisel. Arduous because it takes a lot of muscle power, and dangerous because of the propensity for the machine to kick back and sever body parts. But let’s face it, this is really arduous and dangerous. So far, I’ve been cutting the container walls with a steroidal 9-inch angle grinder with a metal cutting disk. My next task on the house is to make frames for windows, cut holes for windows, and fix the frames in the holes. No, actually, as Juan and Rick guessed, it is to hold the oxygen and acetylene tanks that I just got. ![]() Thanks to everyone who guessed about my latest contraption in my last post. ![]()
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