Hello all,
I've been looking for a while for one of the Military's blowtorches. Issued sometime in the 60's or 70's. It was mentioned in some of the older gen set TMs. It's primary purpose was to preheat generator engines in the arctic (below -25F!). These pages were deleted in newer TM's (lost too many generator due to accidental fires I assume).
My search appeared to be over when I spotted this on ebay: (courtesey of ebay member blackmarble62461)
HUNTER MFG CO., SOLON, OHIO
SERIAL # 13770
MODEL # SPX-2
Cleaned the whole thing up with carb cleaner and changed o-rings with the spare parts kit that was tucked away under the false bottom screwed on the bottom .
With the tank pressurized to the recommended max of 55 PSI it puts out 50,000 BTU's!
Designed to run on JP-4 Fuel, Regular Gasoline, and Arctic Gasoline. There is an adjustment wing nut that moves the generator closer or farther away depending on the fuel.
We were running Coleman (white gas) fuel in it for the test.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_BuBfCKAxw
Has anyone else seen one of these? Kinda hard to locate. Contacted Hunter, they requested photos, then told me they didn't believe they made it until seeing the pictures and had no info on it.
I've been looking for a while for one of the Military's blowtorches. Issued sometime in the 60's or 70's. It was mentioned in some of the older gen set TMs. It's primary purpose was to preheat generator engines in the arctic (below -25F!). These pages were deleted in newer TM's (lost too many generator due to accidental fires I assume).
My search appeared to be over when I spotted this on ebay: (courtesey of ebay member blackmarble62461)
HUNTER MFG CO., SOLON, OHIO
SERIAL # 13770
MODEL # SPX-2
Cleaned the whole thing up with carb cleaner and changed o-rings with the spare parts kit that was tucked away under the false bottom screwed on the bottom .
With the tank pressurized to the recommended max of 55 PSI it puts out 50,000 BTU's!
Designed to run on JP-4 Fuel, Regular Gasoline, and Arctic Gasoline. There is an adjustment wing nut that moves the generator closer or farther away depending on the fuel.
We were running Coleman (white gas) fuel in it for the test.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_BuBfCKAxw
Has anyone else seen one of these? Kinda hard to locate. Contacted Hunter, they requested photos, then told me they didn't believe they made it until seeing the pictures and had no info on it.
