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This was last week but I built a bicycle rack that’ll allow a hitch mount motorcycle carrier to be used

I’m not sure about brass brazing but I’ve silver brazed copper pipe with a b tank w/o oxygen before. I think it was acetylene but it might have been propylene or propane.

I was able to find the adapter I needed so I’m all set, thanks for the replies. Everyone I spoke to agreed it’s fine to switch fuel gases, I’ll keep a close eye on my hoses just the same.

If I did do that I would purge the hoses with the fuel gas before using the torch, just thought it might help remove the “contamination “. My setup is a normal Airco oxy/acetylene set made to use with acetylene. When I first bought it I used mapp and switched to propylene later.

It’s a regular oxy/acetylene torch, nothing special

The connectors aren’t the problem, they say my regulator and hoses are contaminated in some way and it’s dangerous to switch fuels even if I purge the hoses with compressed air.

I’ve been using Mapp and propylene in my gas torch set (an oxy/acetylene setup) for decades, I went to pick up more propylene and they didn’t have any so they sold me an acetylene tank ( I’m in a real hurry to finish a brazing job). After getting home I found I needed a different ****** on my...

Here's a seat I upholstered for a girl I know, the bike is a BMW R nine T. I first had to join the two piece seat together to make a one piece pan, add and shape the foam and lastly sew the cover and upholster it. [/URL][/IMG][/URL][/IMG][/URL][/IMG]

Thanks for the reply, I just want to make sure everything I'm doing is up to code.

No, I do not want to use the garage feeder, I want to run a separate circuit in a separate underground conduit back to the transfer switch in the house for solar/emergency power. Is it legal? The transfer switch would be installed next to the main panel to isolate the three circuits I want to...

I'm in the process of setting up an emergency power source for my house and I'm planning to build a small solar power system just for the lights and refrigerator (probably just a 2000 watt inerter with a 400 ah battery bank). The plan is to put the panels, batteries, charge controller and...

I know there would be extra wear and tear on the breaker....I wonder how many on-off cycles they are rated for? I'm just being overly cautious I suppose, I have way too many circuits in the garage to switch them all. I'll just leave the main on.

I'm planning to do almost the exact same thing in my garage but I'd like to run a circuit to the house for emergency backup in case of an outage, just lights and refrigerator. I'm betting that this would be against NEC code though. I recently learned that you cannot have two separate circuits...

I have a 100 amp breaker feeding the garage from the house and always shut off the main when I leave the building. I'd like to have one separate circuit for outside lights on motion detectors and the garage door opener. This would be 20amps run through a second underground conduit. I've read...

I'm going to mount a few led floodlights outside my garage, two above the 18" garage door about 9' off the ground one over an entrance door and another one over a small balcony and steps. I want decent light outside the garage door but not overwhelmingly bright....like what you'd want to unload...