These are the questions you have to ask yourself when you’re working with an acetylene cutting torch, known colloquially, in 1950s greaser garages everywhere, as a blow torch.

Gas welding uses tanks of compressed oxygen and fuel—most commonly acetylene—feeding these gases through hoses to a handheld torch, producing an extremely hot and easy-to-control flame. This ...

Abu Nimer said it took the operator of an oxy-acetylene torch, a commonly used industrial welding and cutting tool, a day to carve out a hole 1.5 metres in diameter.

HARRIS CALORIFIC CO., a pioneer in the production of gas welding and cutting apparatus, was founded by John Harris, who discovered the oxyacetylene (oxygen flame) method of cutting and welding tools ...