Taylors Paraffin Cooker.

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Anyone know a cheap source for Taylor's paraffin burners please? Price quoted is £150.00 plus postage. Seems incredible to me.
 
sorry to but in but that does seem too good to be true. Do they fit taylors cookers. Ive ordered one anyway at that price
 
TQA said:
There is usually one dumped by the rubbish bin at the Marina in St Lucia most years. Removed in disgust after the transatlantic crossing and replaced with propane stove.
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I agree, I lived with one for 7 years but replaced it with gas last year. Spent approx. £900 on complete new installation including Nelson Spinflo cooker, gas locker and professional install with gas safe certificate, put the Taylor's 030 on eBay and recovered £650 - I was shocked but well pleased and wish I'd done it years ago.

For all the arguments about safety, I found the cooker a bl00dy pain in so many ways. I could light it without drama although it took a couple of minutes with possibility of meths spillage if the sea conditions were crashy crashy, but my main gripe was that whenever I had crew, I had to explain the lighting procedure for the cooker several times and almost without exception the crew would make a hash of it resulting in myself either taking on the cooking and tea making chores or risking the crew setting fire to the galley deckhead. Ok it doesn't actually explode as gas can do, but it can certainly create spectacularly huge flames in the wrong hands and on a fairly regular basis. Coupled to this, cooking a "proper" meal involving using the 2 burners and oven, is a juggling act because once you extinguish a burner, it can't be lit again until after it's cooled down because the meths pre heating process is fraught.

I now enjoy the instant non-convoluted gas cooking process despite the perceived explosion risk.
 
Yes, I have never understood how they are safer than gas. It seems to me that splashing flamable liquid over yourself and the boat every time you try to have a cuppa tea is not particularly safe. Perhaps if there was as many of these as there was of gas stoves we would be seeing more people in burning boats. I wonder just what the relative safety is? If you fit a gas alarm and have a good install then how risky is gas compared to a cooker that is a bu@@er to light, refil and use.
 
pmagowan said:
Yes, I have never understood how they are safer than gas. It seems to me that splashing flamable liquid over yourself and the boat every time you try to have a cuppa tea is not particularly safe. Perhaps if there was as many of these as there was of gas stoves we would be seeing more people in burning boats. I wonder just what the relative safety is? If you fit a gas alarm and have a good install then how risky is gas compared to a cooker that is a bu@@er to light, refil and use.
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They are very easy to use. I wonder if you have ever used one?
 
foeu said:
They are very easy to use. I wonder if you have ever used one?
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Yes, they replaced the gas on my grandmothers yacht with one for 'safety' reasons and they are only easy to use if you change your definition of easy. Gas is 'easy' to use, turn knob and it springs into action. These things take significant effort.
 
foeu said:
They are very easy to use. I wonder if you have ever used one?
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I have used them, including cooking for crew in classic yacht races a couple of times.

Going by the dictionary definition of 'easy', they are very easy to use, if compared to a coal bogie, or a pile of damp twigs.

Compared to LPG, there is a bit of a learning curve, but unlike say learning to sail gaffers, for example, there isn't much payback for it.

I am looking for a two burner Taylor's type stove, if anyone is fed up with burning their eyebrows off, I want it for purely aesthetic reasons, I happen to like the roaring noise, and the minor rituals involved are a welcome distraction from the instant, push-button aspects of modern life.

You can still find the Rippingills stove (from the Riddle of the Sands) on ebay sometimes, about 100x the original purchase price.
 
jerrytug said:
I have used them, including cooking for crew in classic yacht races a couple of times.

Going by the dictionary definition of 'easy', they are very easy to use, if compared to a coal bogie, or a pile of damp twigs.

Compared to LPG, there is a bit of a learning curve, but unlike say learning to sail gaffers, for example, there isn't much payback for it.

I am looking for a two burner Taylor's type stove, if anyone is fed up with burning their eyebrows off, I want it for purely aesthetic reasons, I happen to like the roaring noise, and the minor rituals involved are a welcome distraction from the instant, push-button aspects of modern life.

You can still find the Rippingills stove (from the Riddle of the Sands) on ebay sometimes, about 100x the original purchase price.
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I have a two burner Taylor's taking up space if you're interested. Prefer the Origo that came with the boat as it's a more compact unit due to the integrated paraffin tank.
 
BabaYaga said:
The burner in that link does not have a valve, so even if it fits the flame could not be regulated.
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Good point! But that wouldn't be a problem for me as I actually want it as a spare for my very old Taylor's heater and that doesn't have a control valve on the burner so I fitted a needle valve upstream of the burner and regulate the flame using that.
 
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Eau d'hier!

I have just chucked out a gas stove on a boat that I bought last autumn and am plumbing in a Taylor's right now.

I don't get on with gas; the flame is not so hot, and it takes ages to boil a kettle. And then there is all the faffing about with turning it off at the tank, regulators, changing bottles, and so on.

I haven't had trouble with Taylor's products, but their pricing, as with their loos, is becoming insane.
 
2nd_apprentice said:
I have a two burner Taylor's taking up space if you're interested. Prefer the Origo that came with the boat as it's a more compact unit due to the integrated paraffin tank.
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PM'd you, I always thought the Origos were meths only, I never even knew they used paraffin. Shows how many years you can trundle on, labouring under delusions.
 
I have a Taylor's 30 in my wooden boat - the second one after the first went too rusty, and a double burner Origo in my Cornish Crabber. Both pretty perfect for their use/surroundings. But the point of my post is big thanks for that link for the burner; it will be no good for a Taylor's 30, but I've been looking without luck for a source of new four stalk burners without the controlling valve, as that's what I need for my Taylor's 65 heater.
 
jerrytug said:
PM'd you, I always thought the Origos were meths only, I never even knew they used paraffin. Shows how many years you can trundle on, labouring under delusions.
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PM sent. While not as well made the [strike]Origo[/strike] Optimus 155W is a decent stove when space is a premium:

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