On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 03:55:41 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 3:44:20 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 9:51:18 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >
>> > I have always wondered about the benefit of the torches designed for
>> > kitchen use and the best I can come up with is that some people don't
>> > have a regular propane torch. The hardware model can do whatever the
>> > kitchen model can, but not the other way around.
>>
>> Mostly it dissociates one from those kinds of people that would use a regular torch. Barbarians that show their ass-crack when using their filthy flame torches. Frankly, those kitchen torches seem kind of wimpy. Pretty though.
>
>Don't make me post a photo of me sweating copper pipe. People will be
>poking out their eyes.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

Plumbers don't solder copper tubing anymore, there are new fittings
that they use a compression tool on. They cost a bit more but take a
lot less time plus no leakers to do over, and time is money.