My grandpa used one for gutter work on houses. He used acid flux and stick solder. The solder came in a bar rather than in a roll. It was amazing to watch him work. He was in construction in his early years. Thanks for sharing!
@Steve-ct4jn
4 ай бұрын
I remember watching my dad do cast iron drain/sewerpipe fittings with a blowtorch. The pipe had a “bell end” and the next piece of pipe would fit into the bell leaving a large gap between the two pieces. That gap then got a piece of rope like material (I remember them calling it “Oakum”) stuffed into the bottom of the fitting to prevent the molten lead from falling through the fitting. This is where the blowtorch came into use. The torch had a pot affixed to it for melting blocks of lead which was then poured into the fitting to form a completely water and gas tight seal. As a kid I thought it was so cool to watch metal turn into a liquid. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Frank and all your videos that keep this “Old Guy” entertained. Feel like we are brothers from different mothers as my kids would say. 😊
@woodandmetalshoptime8048
3 ай бұрын
I've seen that done, too. It was like a ladle that they melted the lead in. Lots of us here had similar experiences!
@rjay1674
4 ай бұрын
I have in fact used an iron like that for soldering over lapping joints when making sheet metal boxes in the early '60's. We hard a large bench top furnace for heating the iron. Since the directions mention unleaded gasoline I don't know if that was available until the late '60's or early '70's so I would date the torch from around that time. My father was a jeweler/watch maker and used a torch in his work. He used a fuel called "white gas" that he purchased in 1 gallon cans. He passed away in 1959 so that would have been in the '50's. Thanks for sharing this video. That iron brought back some childhood memories.
@gregbrookins9948
4 ай бұрын
My grandfather had some, showed me how to use one of those to remove house paint. Lots of fun up on a ladder. This was in the 50's
@rogerhodges7656
4 ай бұрын
My uncle had these torches and did a lot of sheet metal work. They are fueled with "white gas" which is available with camping supplies. He considered them dangerous. Like Marvin's post, he used bar solder. He prepared galvanized metal with muriatic acid to remove the zinc and then used flux before soldering. After heating the irons, he applied heat to the back of the joint to draw the solder in.
@JimG31547
4 ай бұрын
Boy is that a trip back in time. My father had one of those blow torches. I remember using it to melt holes soft drink bottles. This was in the mid 50's. The things we did as kids sure don't happen now. Thanks for sharing.
@kentmckean6795
4 ай бұрын
The secret to tinning is flux. Pickup some solder flux used for plumbing with a propane torch. Literally stick the hot tip in a tin of flux, then hit it with the solder.
@arthurkallansrud1950
4 ай бұрын
That was my first torch and iron I learned to use in Junior High School metal shop till my dad bought one for our own use at home
@thaddeustroyer
4 ай бұрын
Give tractorman44 a call, he would definitely know how this would be tinned. He and his "much older brother" are masters of older things. Great people too.
@NVIN-ov9dn
4 ай бұрын
After you tin it wipe it down with a moist cotton cloth. Same tip we used in the central offices but 48 volts.
@WeTrudgeOn
4 ай бұрын
I'm a retired 35 year tin knocker, when I started 40 years ago soldering with the big irons was big. All workstations had solder pots with gas plumbed to them. We cleaned irons with sal amoniac, I think you can still get it from MC Master. The reason you got one face to tin is because you typically only run one face if you tin more then one face you have a harder time controlling exactly where the solder goes. We typically used one pound sticks if 50/50 lead/tin solder. Yeah that's painful watching your try to tin all sides of that iron.: ) if you get some sal amoniac and crumble some up and dissolve it in a mason jar if water you can dip a hot iron in it and it'll clean it right up. Irons are always getting dirty and eroding, we typically filed them to flatten the one side being tinned.
@samhendrix378
4 ай бұрын
Frank you need what they call Salammoniac for cleaning and tinning those old soldering irons
@garyfox8170
4 ай бұрын
I've seen them used for blistering paint on house exterior for scraping.
@charlesmoore7209
4 ай бұрын
I worked for natural gas utility in the 1950’s. The meter shop use those soldering coppers to seal seams on tin case meters after repairing. The coppers were heated by small natural gas furnaces. They made beautiful soldered seams.
@texgibson6236
4 ай бұрын
It is a gasoline blow torch. And the soldering they did was with lead cast on together. The big saw it on was used to shape over the packing. They do not work too well to sweat copper pipes together with lead coach salary.
@jamesrhoades5770
4 ай бұрын
seen iron used in leading old car panels along with wooden paddles to shape lead
@tomtruesdale6901
4 ай бұрын
That is a great find for 20 bucks or so.
@nicholasgoldstonegh4643
3 ай бұрын
In the U.K. we use "Bakers Fluid" for tinning soldering irons and "Tin Work itself..... it's readily available👍 Lead Free solder needs @ 400°C to work well..... that Blow Torch and Soldering Iron combination is meant for Leaded Solder at a much lower temp...... You'll have real issues trying to use Lead Free 😢😢😢😢😢
@emptypockets2467
4 ай бұрын
I looked on Ebay Frank seen some on there , they are saying made around 1920 C&L stand for Clanton and Lambert. out of Kentucky
@R3TR0R4V3
4 ай бұрын
Very cool. Love it. 😎 Thanks for sharing!
@steved2136
4 ай бұрын
You don't have to tin the entire thing- just the tip (like a normal soldering iron)- file the tip clean only if it is needed, otherwise just wipe it clean on a damp rag... Heat, file (if needed), clean on a damp sponge/rag, flux and tin (using standard 60/40 flux cored solder makes it a lot easier...) And we most certainly did use them on electrical connections- in fact, the first thing we had to do as an apprentice electrical fitter was actually make one up for our tool box!!!- it was made from a rectangular block of copper- we had to drill and tap it, then thread the steel rod, and hand file the block from its original size to the dimensions given to us which were smaller in all directions- not because it really needed to be those exact dimensions, but we had to learn how to do it as part of being a 'fitter' lol (they were measured by the lead tradey and had to be accurate down to 0.1mm using the verniers- again not because they needed to be that accurate, but because we were just learning how to do our trade properly lol
@Rick_Bagnall
4 ай бұрын
Nice! My wife and I like going to antique stores and curiosity shops. She calls them "poker" stores because you go in and poke around.! Great find! I also look at torches when we go but haven't found one as good a shape as that one.
@RJ-fs3mj
4 ай бұрын
Product Overview. Superior RubyFluid is a water-soluble flux formulated for soldering. The flux is a non-fuming, self-cleaning soldering flux. The flux exerts a strong scavenging action to remove oxide coatings and other impurities from the metal surface to produce strong joints.
@Crewsy
4 ай бұрын
My Dad had several of those blow torches including one set up to hold a lead pit on top but I had never seen any get used. A Bernzomatic propane torch was so much easier to use. I never knew they used gasoline as a fuel. For some reason I thought they burned kerosene. 🤷🏻♂️ In my grade 9 metal shop class back in ‘81 we used soldering irons to make sheet metal corner shelves but we used the oxy-acetylene torch to heat them.
@PScons
3 ай бұрын
Use Superior flux N0.30 on that iron when trying to tin it.
@JAMESHOPKINSIBXCNC
4 ай бұрын
A wire wheel will clean that iron
@patrickcollins218
3 ай бұрын
There is need to clean the entire iron , only clean the tip to bare copper then tin only the tip. I have used these irons extensively
@tced2858
4 ай бұрын
KZitem Joe Smith, also it was manufactured between 1945 to 1961
@Mad-Duk_Machine_Werkes
4 ай бұрын
I've seen irons like that used to stained glass work? You mentioned "Lead-Free" which in my experience equals "Doesnt work worth a shit" - hahaha if ever you need to sweat in a copper water pipe fitting get yourself some OLD timey solder with lead in it and it works beautiful-
@gusbracewell3856
4 ай бұрын
You may have to use leaded order instead of lead free
@williamhoffman1082
4 ай бұрын
You need ruby fluid to tin the iron and just the tip
@rolandbriscoe4977
4 ай бұрын
Fluxing ...You Clean the soldering head, heat iron above soldering melting point remove from heat, apply flux, and then solder, do not allow flame to come in contact with flux paste or it will become carbonized .
@bobbyjones2363
4 ай бұрын
Water and a sponge ( heat it pad it off with water on sponge
@robertlong9029
4 ай бұрын
I wonder if you could use 95% Ethel alcohol I don’t know which has more btus
@RonSales
4 ай бұрын
Got got in the garage had for years no one wants to buy at every yard sale i have had.
@nicholasgoldstonegh4643
3 ай бұрын
P.S. It's SOLDER ..... NOT SODER.......
@robertlong9029
4 ай бұрын
Leaded glass windows
@chucklangshaw6485
4 ай бұрын
Amoco high test what is white gas unleaded fuel that’s what my grandfather said when he owned his Amoco gas station
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