Oxy Torch Holder?

[gzig5]

When I would help my Dad doing bodywork, he would always hand the torch to me when heat shrinking a panel when he grabbed the hammer and dolly. I don't have a helper available very often and rather than setting the lit torch on the floor, I'd like to set it on a holder of some sort. So I'm looking for ideas for a holder to set it on while still lit. Relighting and setting the flame every time is a non-starter but I don't want a lit torch potentially uncontrolled either.

 

[Biff]

If you can do body work you could fab something that works for you ! Mabey a brake drum for the base heavy enough not to heavy to move around? Doesn’t have to be pretty just practical

 

[67Dart273]

There used to be a "hang up valve" mostly meant for bench work, where you'd hang the torch on the "switch hook" and it would valve down to a pilot flame, then ramp up when you picked it up

Miller calls it a "gasaver" --I lied--it shuts the torch off but has a pilot flame on the device, when you pick the torch up you relight it with the pilot flame

Gasaver™ for Oxygen and Acetylene

 

[Bodyperson]

There used to be a "hang up valve" mostly meant for bench work, where you'd hang the torch on the "switch hook" and it would valve down to a pilot flame, then ramp up when you picked it up

Miller calls it a "gasaver"

Gasaver™ for Oxygen and Acetylene

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Used one of those when I was doing radiator repair except it was just natural gas enough for soldering. I just shut the torch off. Fire scares me.

 

[Tooljunkie]

Used one of those when I was doing radiator repair except it was just natural gas enough for soldering. I just shut the torch off. Fire scares me.

I was heating something up with my propane torch. Propped it up so the part in the vise was in the perfect spot. I must have forgotten i turned it off before leaving shop. I panicked when i thought about it an hour later.

 

[Unconventional]

A stick (use your imagination) with a base heavy enough to hold it and the torch upright.
Forky kinda thing that fits loosely around the hand grip area yet narrow enough for the attaching fixture/nut of the tip to rest on

Be creative on the stick, one diameter tubing/or whatever that will fit inside another with a clamping mechanism for adjustable height.

 

[Unconventional]

PS
The used up blades from your farmer buddy's scrap bin make good bases

 

[George Jets]

This is the type of stand we used in auto body trade school (in the early '70s) for holding the oxy acetylene torches when lit. About 15" tall, and you let the hoses drag on the floor.

1/4" stock rod, and 1/4" plate steel base.