I tried to google this but didn’t have much luck… I will be moving
in with my brother soon, and when I asked about buying a fan that
would fit into a window opening for fumes and a little breeze for
radiant heat from my torch, he went ballistic, started saying “no
open flames!” - he’s afraid I’m gonna burn down his house, possibly
he’s envisioning me working with a huge blowtorch (needless to say,
he’s never been in a jewelry studio)
After explaining all my safety precautions with him, explaining that
the vent was primarily for me personally since I’ll be within less
than a foot of some of this stuff (and not because my work is going
to fume up his whole house like he’s thinking), and that I’m far less
of a danger in the kitchen than with a torch, because it’s not like I
can leave it burning while I run to the bathroom, all I got was that
I could do some of my torchwork inside IF I showed him all the safety
precautions - fine, easy - and IF I had a dead man’s switch mechanism
on my torch.
Now this confounded me a bit, because other than maybe a handheld
butane torch, I didn’t even know that was available for torch setups
- I’ve certainly never seen one, unless you count our primitive
little foot pump torches at school, which will go out eventually if
you stop pumping. Is this even available for a propane/air setup,
like a foot pedal attachment or something? Or, if I drop a torch or
something will it go out? I’ve never actually tested dropping a
propane torch and I don’t have access to one right now.
I don’t need to do all my torch work indoors (like melting which
really would warm up the room), but I need something to put him at
ease to let me do some torch work indoors because I can’t keep
moving indoors/outdoors/indoors/outdoors/indoors… It’d be truly
annoying for intermittent small amounts of soldering, and THAT would
make things more distracting and dangerous!