Sometimes people ask me what kind of set up I use for soldering. I like oxygen and propane, and use a Hoke torch. Today I am taking the empty oxygen tank into Aberdeen (the closest town to us of size, about 40 miles away)  to exchange it for a full one. About every couple of months or so I need to do this….There are two welding supply places in the industrial part of Aberdeen, about a block apart from each other. One of them has a guy working there who looks like the actor Sterling Hayden ( The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing, Johnny Guitar…)

Hope he is there today…