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Thread: Propylene or acetylene?

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    I worked in a steel foundry for about a week. They were making railroad car wheels. They would cut out the center of the wheel, for an axle, they used natural gas and o2. The steel was about 8 in thick!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by mountain eagle View Post
    ??? Tell me more........ I've already piped LNG to the garage for the radiant heat so tapping off for another line over to the other side of the garage would be easy............ For all my CU plumbing stuff I'll only use mapp, gave away all the propane I had 'cause it's just too slow for that stuff.
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    Wikipedia has a pretty informative article on MAPP gas:
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