Sievert Promatic users?

I sat down this morning to order both gas and a Sievert General purpose gas torch kit as kindly recommended by Jason and Terry on other threads.This will be my first proper torch outfit.

Ive paused as I really wanted to avoid having to manually light it, rather to have pizzo ignition and have been looking at the Promatic Auto torch kit instead.

This comes with a smaller burner than the General purpose kit (from Hamilton Gas), 19mm rather than 28mm, but they do larger sizes, 25mm being the nearest.

I have a fairly small and confined workspace so the trigger control really appeals for safety reasons, the workshop walls are lined in nice dry fibre board!

So apart from the extra expense, the Promatic offers the trigger on off and what is described as a load relieving trigger system, which I assume is a button to push in to keep the torch trigger on if I so wish.

Does anybody use one of these and am I correct about the load relief?

Are there any downsides?

Thanks in advance

Chris.

Don't have one but the long orange trigger with it's pivot at the inlet end means you don't have to squeeze very hard so that relieves the load, does not lock in the on position so turns off as soon as you let go. The 25mm burner is not much below the output of a 28mm one so should be OK

Thanks very much Jason.

On that ive just ordered the more modestly priced kit and can afford a box of matches with what Ive 'saved' (-:

Cheers

Chris.

So I keep the gas cylinder outside, out of the sun, throughout the year?

Chris, that very much depends on who you listen to ! I have both oxygen and propane bottles in the workshop since 1969 without any incident. In the winter depending how fast you use the gas or how much gas is left in the bottle it may freeze and you will loose bottle pressure. Using a 1'5mm nozzle at 35psi even in summer with only 1/3 of a bottle after about 15 mins I can loose pressure. Whilst in use keep the bottle in the work shop, though you may choose to keep it outside when not in use. Noel.

Edited By noel shelley on 11/03/2021 18:57:54

Hi Noel, thanks very much for this, good to know as I want to keep safe!

Cheers

Chris.