Announcement

CROSSTECH® PROFESSIONAL TORCHES

Effective January 15, 2006, General Regulator, Inc. has discontinued selling our TM3000 CROSSTECH PROFESSIONAL TORCH. We have replaced this design with our new and proved TM3000CLO torch which has our special solder clean out feature. The TM3000CLO torch has been in production for about a year now and we are very pleased with its performance and response from customers who are using this product in Super Industrial brazing applications.

Soon General Regulator, Inc. will be discontinuing its TM2000 CROSSTECH PROFESSIONAL TORCHES and going solely with our TM2000CLO torches which we have been selling since the 1990's. The TM2000CLO torch has our special solder clean out feature and we have experienced a greatly reduced field return rate compared to the TM2000 torches because the contractor can clean out the solder and a repair the products themselves.

These two product updates will greatly improve your sales opportunities and your customers will enjoy the ability to quickly clean their torches on site if the inadvertently get solder in them. We also sell replacement FT2000 and FT2300 flame tube assemblies if the customer damages the tips.

We have been selling our CROSSTECH PROFESSIONAL TORCHES since 1978 and developed a very loyal following of contractors who go out of their way to ask for our products because they are extremely happy with our product quality and very high velocity flames which heat the work pieces hotter and faster than our competition.

We are not a giant company like the two largest torch companies in the industry. We have to do things smarter and better then them. We are the innovators in the industry. These are some of our accomplishments:

• First company to have stainless steel flame stabilizers which don't melt out.

• With our very high velocity, laminar flow flames, we heat work pieces hotter and faster

• We have been using the same diaphragm regulator since 1978. No need to redesign the product.

• Only company to have a lock on it regulators to prevent accidental turning on of the regulator.

• Only torch company with 8 models of torches for one pound gas cylinders from small refrigeration torches to Super Industrial. "Gatling Gun Torches".

• As far as we know, we are the only torch company to have filters in the torch tips to prevent dirt from clogging them.

• Only torch company to design and manufacturer their own ignition system for their self igniting torches.

• All torch tips are interchangeable.

• All out products are engineered and manufactured in the USA. Some of our competition are manufacturing their products in Mexico.

• We were the first company to date code our products for warranry purposes.

• We are the first to offer a 3 year warranty on all out products