When trailers go bad OR How not to tow your Wright Brothers machine

Ernest Christley wrote:

I've welded a Delta together with a HF torch, and everyone that I can
get to inspect them (and I ask everyone) thinks they are just fine.
Just keep the tip clean and you'll have no problem. Gas welding torches
have been around for over 100yrs, and there really isn't that many ways
to drill an orifice in a piece of copper/brass/whatever those things are
made of.

I wouldn't want to do extensive welding of 1/4" anything with a gas
torch, though...unless maybe it was the dead of winter. A TIG or
wirefed MIG are much more useful there.



Thanks Ernest. If the HF torch is good enough for all of that plumbing,
it should work fine for me. Not too much 1/4" steel in a trailer, but
there is a little. What size tanks do you recommend? Size is an issue,
but the "porta-torch" tanks look a little small for any serious
project.

Harry