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Although a blowtorch, in my mind, is a big rig with gas tanks, while a blowlamp implies a handheld device
Feb 29 · 6 months ago
📷 sjlxndr [OP] · 2024-02-29 at 22:36:
that makes sense, but I've always included both under "blowtorch" as "blowlamp" has never been in my vocabulary 😅
BLOWLAMP — for what it's worth, while it's in the Merriam Webster, BLOWLAMP is very much a British usage and never heard in the US. We call that a blowtorch