"Torches vary wildly in price around me. Mostly from high, to I could buy new for that."
Here in Montreal you have to rent cylinders unless they are the smallest ones, which you can either own outright or rent. I have the small ones, which I own. Got my oxyacetylene torches, regulators, the small bottles and a cart from a neighbor who was moving, in a hurry, I think! He wanted $25, which struck me as reasonable under the circumstances

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