Broken off Tip Cleaner

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Hey yall...Well, lately ive been hauling alot of scrap from around the farm while waiting on the guy i bought a torch from, to get my torch together and get it to me... And im finally out of light stuff that fits in the back of a truck whole, so today i started on the big stuff. Since i committed to this torch a month ago, and dont have it yet, i went to see the guy today and told him i needed a torch, or my money back. So, he lent me his. Hes my one friends dad, and really busy, and, in a really nice rant of his the other day i overheard, really anal about dirty tips, and letting people use his torches who get crap stuck in the tip. So, i picked up the torch, tried to remember the five minute crash course i got from my welding instructor in cutting stuff this morning at school, and headed down to the barns. I managed to get the thing set up, lit, and cutting. I cut up an old cultivator, made up of 3/8 or so metal. It was really messy, really gloppy, but once i got cutting, it cut pretty good. Anyway, i was working away, when i hear a loud wooshing behind me. I jump up, kill the torch, and turn off the gas at the torch. Turns out his old school regulator that looks like a wwii era relic sprung a leak, killing my torch cutting fun for the night. And, remembering the rant, i decided that it would probably be a good idea to clean out this tip. Which went well until i managed to break off a really small tip cleaner in the really small holes in the tip. It doesn't look that good to me, and, before i go buy a new tip before i return this thing, is there any way to get these things out of here?? lol... And any other advice would be good... Thanks guys :-)
Reply:is it simple acetylene tip? for victor torch? or is it smith? a little more specificsnothing fancy, just a few hot glue guns for metalwww.sicfabrications.com
Reply:http://www.atlweldingsupply.com/Vict...1_c_466-1.html <--- first link i found when googled.... 6 bucks for a tip.... really worried about a broken cleaner?nothing fancy, just a few hot glue guns for metalwww.sicfabrications.com
Reply:Alright, thanks man :-)Naw, its an old harris...
Reply:glad that i could help... if you have a twist drill (little gunmakers hand drill) or might even try to blow the broken part out with  a air compressor, but doubt it.... just sayin...nothing fancy, just a few hot glue guns for metalwww.sicfabrications.com
Reply:Heat the tip the wire is smaller it should melt out or soften or try heat in a vice then try blow it through with air
Reply:Tried all of the above on one occassion.  Bit the bullet when nothing worked, and spent 18 bucks for a new tipLesson learned:  Keep extra tips on handWorking with metal is costly, and this is one of the incidental costs."Any day above ground is a good day"http://www.farmersamm.com/