I vote for acetylene if you can get it. Nice new lines, good regulators and flashback arrestors and it’s perfectly safe. Test for leaks regularly, it stinks, which is helpful. Massive plus points are you can weld almost anything with it, as well as braze. For thin material, the line pressure is really low, like 5psi or less - the torch is nothing more than a whisper.
It is dirty though, if you’re stopping and starting all the time you end up like a Victorian chimney sweep from the soot.
I would love an AC tig set up at some point - good ones are getting cheaper and cheaper. I know a fella that makes prototype parts for Ford Racing products and he’s using Everlast inverter machines exclusively now - reckons they’re as good as the big buck Miller equivalents.
@Jung
I vote for acetylene if you can get it. Nice new lines, good regulators and flashback arrestors and it’s perfectly safe. Test for leaks regularly, it stinks, which is helpful. Massive plus points are you can weld almost anything with it, as well as braze. For thin material, the line pressure is really low, like 5psi or less - the torch is nothing more than a whisper.
It is dirty though, if you’re stopping and starting all the time you end up like a Victorian chimney sweep from the soot.
I would love an AC tig set up at some point - good ones are getting cheaper and cheaper. I know a fella that makes prototype parts for Ford Racing products and he’s using Everlast inverter machines exclusively now - reckons they’re as good as the big buck Miller equivalents.