Parrafin

[graham]

Anyone know where you can get small quantities of parrafin from.We use citronella oil in the lamps when camping but I think it would smell in the boat.

I have been given a gimballed lamp that was my fathers and also am considering a heater.

 

[sarabande]

For every litre of paraffin you burn in an open atmosphere (i.e. if the stove doesn't have a flue) you put one litre of moisture into the cabin. plus all the nasty CO, CO2, CO....

 

[damo]

I got a 5 litre container from a local hardware store. It was more expensive than I was expecting, but can't remember what the current price might be.

You used to be able to get it everywhere when I were a lad, cos most houses had paraffin heaters.....that's a point, Graham: I bet there is an old granny's shed somewhere near you which will have a small chimney-type paraffin wick heater which you may be able to modify?

Lampwick is presumably still available, since we used it for sledge-dog harnesses until a few years ago /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[bluedragon]

B&Q and the like still sell it for greenhouse heaters. For lamps, we use the Bartoline odour-free white spirit you can buy on the paint thinners shelves. This works very well...absolutely no smell at all when burnt.

 

[chrishelen]

Clarence Hardware, half way down corperation road in grangetown,5ltrs for £5 last summer,stinks a bit in the oil lamps though.

 

[johnchampion]

The DIY sheds sell it in their garden departments as it's used in greenhouse heaters. B&Q were selling a paraffin substitute which works OK although the last time I got some it was the real thing. It's distributed by Barretine in Warmley but they won't sell direct these days.

If you try B&Q and ask the boys and girls there where it is they usually give a somewhat blank stare and say they don't sell it - they do and usually it can be found in the outside bit of the garden area.

I use it in lights and a Taylors cooker

 

[Csail]

Our local garage used to sell it, im speaking to them tomorrow so i'll ask.

 

[bluedragon]

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If you try B&Q and ask the boys and girls there where it is they usually give a somewhat blank stare and say they don't sell it - they do and usually it can be found in the outside bit of the garden area.


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That's true....they don't know it as paraffin. The brand name they have is "Parasene". I use it in a Tilley Lamp and it has very little smell compared to the stinky stuff we had around when I was a kid.

 

[bluedragon]

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Clarence Hardware, half way down corperation road in grangetown,5ltrs for £5 last summer,stinks a bit in the oil lamps though.

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My dad used to buy it from there in the 60s!! Hope it's not the same tank...keep an eye open for rusty bits /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[graham]

my Grandfather in Clive St used to buy it in there for a hurricane lamp he hung in the outside bog to stop the pipes freezing. Amazing what we all have in common /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks for all the replies sounds like Ill get it without too much trouble.

 

[Sneds]

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Sorry...................couldn't resist /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[chrishelen]

Going off the point a bit here,i read somewhere that Clarence Hardware used to be a bakery,and during the war it took a direct hit from a german bomb and killed 35 people taking shelter in the celler,and that there is a plaque above the door to this effect.