Rural scrapper
Love it when this gets rehashed !
Bottom line
Propane-cheaper fuel, requires more oxygen
Accetylene-more expensive fuel, requires less oxygen
To me, if you figured in the above facts, I'm willing to bet that, unless your needing extremely large amount of fuel gas, there isn't that huge difference in overall operating costs either way.
Alvord iron and salvage
3rd generation scrapper and dam proud of it
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
I have an acetylene outfit and won't change. There's many places nearby to exchange tanks / unlike propane. I learned on propane back in Vet School but can't think of any advantages. I should buy another acety. tank so I have my own spare and I need to get the large size oxygen instead of the "S" size that I have. I stand the gas tank upright in my pickup and lay the oxygen down in the box. I often find 100 lb propane bottles with varying amounts of gas in them yet on scrap jobs. I use them for branding cattle or starting my burn barrel fires on the farm.
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