Trigger Start Torch

This is an excellent product for soldering pipe, but not for searing food after sous vide cooking. Food will get over cooked. Great for toasting hamburger buns! The unit fails in browning meats. THE UNIT DOES NOT CREAT A FOCUSED LONG LIGHT BLUE FLAME WHICH I MUST HAVE IN SEARING MEAT. I will use an iron skillet. I am returning the unit

This is a really nice torch head, using with map gas cylinders for plumbing repairs.

Use to heat quartz nail for medical dabs 5-40 times a day since purchase. Lock feature is used every time.

Great and easy product to use

I used to use a cast iron skillet to sear steaks after a sous vide bath. Using direct flame into the same cast iron skillet is so much easier, faster and produces less smoke with better results. The steaks are pink all they way through with just minimal gray overcooked layers on the outside. This is the best and easiest way to cook great steaks!

We had the TS7 for years and was very happy with it but it died so we decided to get the TS8 this time and have used it and are very happy

works

Works great accept it does not light when you pull the trigger. I waited to long to check it and Im past the return date. My fault.

Mine did NOT come with the adjustable flame control knob as advertised. These are good torches, I just really need the flame control knob for my application.

I bought mine as a kit including a bottle of MAPP from a local builders supply here. But I thought I would comment. First the TS8000 is certainly high intensity! As others have posted one of the quarks of this thing are its touchy flame control and lack of a true low mode. I was sweating 1/2 copper pipe and found that in the middle zone it was heating the pipe and flux so quickly (under 2 seconds!) that I was burning it off and leaving these very pretty scorch marks on my pipes. However after a little trial and error I discovered that you could back the flame off to just before it would blow out and be more of a normal torch. At that lowest setting (assuming I didnt bump the knob with the back of my hand) it heated the fittings very evenly and slow enough to where I could sweat them and wipe them clean for a reasonable looking finish. I gave it four starts since it is a handheld blast furnace, but for larger pipes (most likely its intended use) I assume it would work do beautifully for you! I love the one handed lighting and operation. Much safer than the old igniter torches Ive used in the past. I cant comment on gas consumption yet, but when I run out Ill update and tell you how many fittings I got out of the bottle.