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21 Friction Lighters ALWAYS use some type of friction lighter to light your torch. NEVER use matches. Don’t even have them on your person when welding or cutting. Friction lighters are cheap and easy to use. A three flint lighter, which carries two reserve flints all mounted and ready for use, makes a lot of sense. Mechanical Accessories Good workmanship is difficult without a suitable place to work. For welding, you need some kind of a sensibly- designed, 100% fireproof work table. A table with a slotted cast iron top, as illustrated in Fig. 5-17, is ideal for many purposes. The slots allow you to position C-clamps at almost any work-holding position desired. You can make up a somewhat similar table from steel angles and strips with the top framed and fitted with supports for holding loosely-set fire bricks. For lining up parts, you’ll normally need a couple of heavy steel straight- edges, and some V-blocks, which can be supplied by any dealer in machinist supplies, or machined from steel 1-1/2-in. or 2-in. thick. For bevelling the edges of parts to be welded, anything from a course file to a power grinder may be needed. When steel 1/4-in. or more in thickness is to be welded, you can often bevel it with the cutting torch or attachment. Wire brushes are always needed. Fig. 5-17. Friction lighter (above) and welding table with slotted cast iron top (right).