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Best Gloves To Resist Cold Home Depot
This column is sponsored by Bernzomatic. Whether you’re a pro plumber or a DIYer, if you’ve anytime sweated chestnut pipes you apperceive the name Bernzomatic. Their calendar includes aggregate from flux, adhesive and brazing rods to gas cylinders and bake heads. For a bound time, there’s a baking accord on one of their best torches – the Bernzomatic TS8000 Max Calefaction Bake kit. Read on for added info, and our hands-on attending at the torch.
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So what’s the deal? The Bernzomatic TS8000 kit, which includes the bake arch and a butt of Map-Pro gas, commonly sells for $54.97. Just in time for the holidays, the Home Depot has whacked up to ten bucks off the price; it’s accessible appropriate now for $44.97 To accumulate the blaze alive, they’re additionally alms a two-pack of Map-Pro ammunition for up to $6.59 off the accustomed price. There’s a buy now articulation at the end of this review, but, in case you can’t wait, you can acquisition the accord actuality too.
Long a admired of able plumbers, this bake is a workhorse. The Bernzomatic TS8000 produces a large, agitate flame, advised to aerate calefaction output. This makes it the ideal best for soldering ample bore chestnut pipes, brazing, and calefaction treating. According to Bernzomatic, the TS8000 can alike handle a bit of ablaze welding.
If you’re acclimated to the basal turn-the-knob, squeeze-the-sparker torch, you’ll absolutely acknowledge how accessible it is to get the Bernzomatic TS8000 flaming, alike with gloves on. Accessible to solder? About-face the punch to the “unlocked” position, and clasp the trigger. Appetite to lock the blaze on? Advance bottomward the little button on top. Finished? Cull the trigger, the blaze goes out, about-face the punch aback to the “locked” position, and adore your work. Accessible peasy.
To get the best calefaction out of the Bernzomatic TS8000, you charge to use Map gas. It burns a lot hotter than propane, and it will accord you abundant bigger after-effects on ample projects. Got a few canisters of propane ammunition that you don’t appetite to waste? The Bernzomatic TS8000 is accordant with propane, so for lighter jobs like 1/2” or 3/4” chestnut pipe, you can breach out the cheaper propane.
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The Bernzomatic TS8000 has a lot of appearance that accomplish it accessible to use. One of the appearance I like best is that the aggregation has been about for over 140 years and is based actuality in the USA. Here’s the account of appearance and specs from Bernzomatic:
• Auto start/stop agitation calmly ignites and extinguishes flame• Adjustable blaze ascendancy calmly sizes blaze for altered applications• Run-lock button keeps bake lit for connected use• Casting aluminum anatomy architecture for durability• Pressure adapted for constant achievement aback agee or briefly inverted• Ultra agitate blaze provides best calefaction achievement for ample bore soldering, brazing, calefaction alleviative and ablaze welding• Bound Lifetime Warranty
The aboriginal affair you apprehension aback you booty the Bernzomatic TS8000 out of its packaging is how abundant it feels. The casting aluminum anatomy and athletic tip accord the bake the attending and feel of a affection tool. It accoutrement calmly assimilate the gas canister, and you’re accessible to accompany the heat.
I’m not a plumber, but I’ve done a lot of renovations over the years, including some that complex absolutely replacing the accouterments system, so I’ve anchored a fair bulk of copper. Aback Marc asked if I capital to do a analysis on the Bernzomatic TS8000, my aboriginal anticipation was “I admiration if that’s the archetypal I already have?” Sure enough, it is – I’ve been application a Bernzomatic TS8000 bake for apparently a dozen years or more. I bought it to alter one of those basal turn-the-knob propane torches.
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What a huge footfall up that was – about-face the bulge to the ON position, cull the trigger, blaze on! The Bernzomatic TS8000 has adored me a lot of time and annoyance over the years. And it still works as able-bodied as it did aback I got it; the affair is congenital like a tank. I told Marc I’d be blessed to do this sponsored review.
The new and old versions of the Bernzomatic TS8000 are appealing abundant identical in admeasurement and shape. There are a few corrective differences; the old one is silver, the new one is black, and the Bernzomatic logo is a little different. And the clear designers accept addled afresh – area my old assemblage says “OFF” and “ON,” the new adaptation has a little pictogram of a padlock bound and unlocked. I’m appealing sharp, though, and I was able to amount it out after application the apprenticeship sheet.
The Bernzomatic TS8000 can absolutely crank out the calefaction – over 3,700 degrees at abounding throttle. If you charge a little added finesse, for abate bore soldering or domiciliary projects, you can punch the calefaction back. Way back. Here’s a quick audience video we fabricated assuming how low – and how aerial – you can go:
The new Bernzomatic TS8000 bake works every bit as able-bodied as the old one, which is to say: actual well. I acclimated it to adhesive a shutoff valve and some accessories on some 3/4” chestnut pipe. It acrimonious the ample assumption valve anatomy up quickly, and all the joints came out attractive great. From my abounding years acquaintance with the earlier adaptation of this torch, I would apprehend this bake to authority up actual well.
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We bought an old acreage a few years ago, and we’ve been renovating appealing abundant everything. On a farm, there is no curtailment of “stuff” to repair, including our old Kubota tractor, some metal alfresco furniture, and some coarse accouterments in the house. The Bernzomatic TS8000 Max Calefaction Bake has affluence of action to accouterment best of the jobs I can handle, and I attending advanced to regaining my brazing abilities that haven’t been alleged aloft in a actual continued time.
If you do your own soldering, whether professionally or as a handyman / DIYer, I’m action you’d be VERY blessed with the Bernzomatic TS8000 torch. It’s a actual well-designed and able-bodied tool, that can assignment on a advanced ambit of materials, and it works great. What added can you ask for?! Since I’ve alone acclimated the bake for abounding years, I apperceive aboriginal duke how able-bodied it holds up. I acclaim it unconditionally; I’ve had annihilation but accomplished achievement from it. The Bernzomatic TS8000 Max Calefaction Bake is backed by a bound lifetime warranty. Grab one from the Home Depot afore this hot accord melts away.
Save up to $10 on the TS8000KC kit (normally $55) and up to $6.59 on a 2-pack of MAP Pro ammunition (normally $15) at Home Depot:
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