Recommend a blowtorch for burning out subframe bushes?

[TroubledSoul]

Need to go to B&Q later so if it's one from their range, even better. Looking for the cheapest possible that will actually work to be honest.

I have one of those that Halfords sell with the little cannister and the nozzle all together and it seems to really struggle to do anything of note!

[battered]

Just buy a standard issue screw-on blowtorch, they all work. Maybe you've been unlucky with yours. Mine's fine, I use it for all manner of abuse. Bloody good for crème brulee, and for browning off sausages.

[kambites]

IIRC a cheap soldering torch from B&Q will be about 400 degrees. I'd imagine that's probably hot enough to burn rubber?

[TroubledSoul]

You'd think so but my existing item is crap. Of course, it could just be really low on gas?

It occasionally managed to set the odd bush on fire when used in the past but only just. It never obliterated anything!

[kambites]

If not, you need a brazing torch.

[anothernameitist]

If you are near to a screwfix, they are usually cheaper than B&Q

[996TT02]

You want a plumber's gas torch

http://maxbilt.com.au/wp-content/gallery/maxbilt-h...

Leylands and many others do them.

No comparison to a regular camping gas blowtorch. But not as cheap, however very useful for all sorts and very convenient to use with trigger on/off.

[996TT02]

I would like to add that the job will be very messy and slow anyway.

For speed you want oxy-acetylene so that you can ramp up the oxygen and truly oxidise, cuts through metal as if it were butter.

[battered]

Oxy acet is indeed great but you can't get it without a contract for the bottles so it's impractical for odd jobs. It's also OTT if all you want to do is burn out rubber bushes or heat nuts up. A plumbers' torch is better but first up I'd be trying a new cylinder on the one you have.

[G600]

battered said:

Oxy acet is indeed great but you can't get it without a contract for the bottles so it's impractical for odd jobs

You can now, but it's not cheaphttp://www.hobbyweld.co.uk/products/acetylene/

[colin_p]

Get a MAPP gas torch.

Hottest thing you can buy cheaply.

Great for lighting the BBQ as well as melting glass, as you do. BBQ nicely lit, a few empty chubby beer bottles, waiting for the charcoal to die down a bit ready for cooking, what is one supposed to do when slightly drunk and waiting? Yes test the MAPP blowtorch and see what it will do...

Melts beer cans, no problem, in fact burns through them.
Chubby glass beer bottles, melts them!

Rubber suspension bushes would not be an issue but the toxic fumes would be!

[R1 Indy]

Any cheap blow torch should do, full power let the rubber catch fire and wait, the melt part will just push out.

You may want to do it on the neighbours side of the garden, you don't want that nasty burning smell coming into your house!

[Huff]

I wouldn't burn bushes out at all - foul procedure with attendant risk.

Stick a metal-cutting blade in your jigsaw and cut a slot from inside diameter out - 2mins tops. Pushes out easy and clean after that.

[Who me ?]

As seen on Wheeler dealers- length of threaded rod to fit in hole. 2X LARGE washers ,2x nuts and a socket sized to pull bush out, and another to pull bush into/large tubing. .Nut, Washer, smaller socket on one side - larger socket, washer and nut on other side. Spanners on both sides and tension. Might need a bit of persuading heat to help.

[TroubledSoul]

Guys, I already have a proper bush removal kit. I was just thinking with these ones it might speed things up a bit using a decent blowtorch.

[gazza285]

Where in West Yorkshire. I have acetylene...

[TroubledSoul]

South Milford.

[gazza285]

A long way from the other side of Huddersfield...