Torch settings for propane/oxygen setup

Well first off what are you cutting up? What bottles and gauges are you using? Why aren't you using H-Scrapper tips? How many lbs of pressure do you want run with propane and oxy?

For me oxy/acc works best. I use a #3 tip cuts anything I come across. Propane is cheaper doesn't burn as hot.

How could you not like propane? Cheaper, safer, cheaper, more available and cheaper than acetylene. You must be doing something wrong if you don't like the way it cuts.

To the OP, I run it at 25 and 100. Crank them up. Fuel is cheap and steel is money.

You are either a burner or a learner which one are you? Why do you hate torches. Torches can make you more money then you ever imagined. Imagine being able to cut up stuff that other torchmen can't touch with a 10 foot pole. Its practice practice practice with torching stuff eventually it becomes second nature. Figuring out problems like where to cut up stuff and how to cut stuff without getting hurt or injured. It took me years to perfect cutting scrap. I would suggest you start off with a three foot harris with maybe a number 4 H-scrapper tip. The torch is pretty easy to learn. Get it with a 75 degree head and get something that would you consider big and have at it. Experience trumps everything when cutting up scrap. 20 lbs of propane is fine turn it to 22 if its thicker and 1oo lbs of oxygen will work fine for what you are cutting the bigger it is the more you want to turn it up. You might want to try liquid oxygen for bigger projects. Start small think big. I cut 1440 GT last month. We busted up all kinds of scrap from a concrete plant to steel making equipment to tanks. We blasted through it all. Any questions that you have just shoot me a PM or ask it here and I will try to reply to it. I love talking about cutting scrap.

Tater, I am cutting through 2 foot by 5 foot thick pieces they are solid and 35 pieces is a 205,000 lb rail car. I don't think a acetylene torch is gonna handle it. 200 psi to boot. Like I have said before its all in what u prefer and feel safe to use. Using combustables is extremely dangerous throw in gss, hydraulic fluid, other flammable liquids and combustables, scrap under pressure, etc and cutting scrap becomes a very hazardous job just be as carefull as possible and only do what u feel comfortable doing.

Acetylene needs to be "pampered". Don't turn the pressure too high. Don't pull to hard off the bottle. Don't store on its side. If you do any of these the potential of "boom" comes into play. None of this applies to propane.

Why would you bring up gasoline? Do you cut gas tanks up? That is very dangerous and plain old dumb.

If you are concerned with using too much oxygen, consult your supplier and try to get a better deal. Oxygen should not be an issue. What I observed running "K" bottles was three bottles to one twenty pounder of propane. All this for about the cost of one acetylene bottle. Probably cheaper. About 75$.

If you can throw out some real numbers, do so.

I can throw out the numbers i just got from my supplier 60 cents a hundred for oxygen. Yup since I am blazing through 750,000 cubic feet of oxygen a month and thats expected to top out at 1.2 million cubic feet a month when we are ramped up with 5 10,000 cubic feet an hour vaporizers in a month once the upgrades are done to my 3000 gallon tank. I use more oxygen in a month then most of the people in this forum will use in 10 years. I am getting my propane for 50 cents a lb or 2.57 a gallon which is expensive but we currently using 1 1000 gallon tank but we will be pulling so many BTU'S an hour that we are having to add a second 1000 gallon tank because we are afraid it will freeze up and won't keep up with our oxygen flow. 1.2 million cubic feet a month is equivalent to 266 of the silver or white painted liquid ox tanks that the majority of scrappers use unless you are using 427 bottle or smaller which are the small green bottles.. I might know a thing or two about cutting scrap. Once its all said and done I am guessing 12,000 a month to 15,000 a month in gases. I also have to cut 3,000 GT a month to keep up with the incoming flow of material. 5 or 6 jet torches at a time or more. The yard just bought a 345 cat to put in our burning area just to keep up with us because right now we are cutting up the material faster then they can clean us up and lay us back out with material.

I've scraped off and on through out the years ... Got back in it just now to make ends meet... What psi to set oxy and propane to... I'm using a #0 propane tip with a old craftsman torch head... Just went through 2-150 bottles of oxy and not even a used grill bottle I have 20lb please help