RaceDiagnostics
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I wonder why we didn't all die of carbon monoxide poisoning when we were kids.
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There were that many gaps around the doors and windows in our 1780's hand made brick built two up two down converted to four up four down hovel you had no chance as the wind blew all the heat away before it got to you most cold days .
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As kids we had some sort of coke Range thing that heated hot domestic water and Mother used it to cook on and in (it had ovens).
Sort or an AGA but not...
My Dad was not into wood fires like his Father - Dad was "snob" it was all anthracite coke type stuff - fireplaces with greedy front plates so you could keep them in overnight with dust.
I liked the open wood fire thing - Grandads black lab dog - would cuddle up to you in front of the fire - then start whimpering and nibbling you - as a warning when a half burnt log was gonna roll out of fire onto you - I swear the dog did "fire watch" - Grandad Fred did'nt...
Sort or an AGA but not...
My Dad was not into wood fires like his Father - Dad was "snob" it was all anthracite coke type stuff - fireplaces with greedy front plates so you could keep them in overnight with dust.
I liked the open wood fire thing - Grandads black lab dog - would cuddle up to you in front of the fire - then start whimpering and nibbling you - as a warning when a half burnt log was gonna roll out of fire onto you - I swear the dog did "fire watch" - Grandad Fred did'nt...
I see lots of military users now have a one fuel policy and just use added lube to run diesel vehicles on jet fuel / kero?
Also you can get outboards that will run on kero - start on petrol - switch to kero - then back to petrol again.
premmington
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We may have done.
Google it "CO poisoning may have association with the risk of developing dementia"
Just a long death...
Sounds a bit like a Rayburn with back boiler , oven & cooking top for two or three pans
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Top had sq lift up things - it had a low temp oven at bottom - Mother called it "a simmering oven" - but too hot to prove bread!
It did not run radiators - just a hot water tank (by convection I would think...?)
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Baths at Nans was in out house - in a tin bath - water heated up in a copper - with coal fire underneath it.
I hated it - I was the youngest of three and went it last...
Deffo sounds like a Rayburn in a 1946 onwards new house /council house . The bed room above the Rayburn was roasting in summer & winter , as the cylinder was also adjacent to that bed room . You were lucky , till I was 4 , we couldn't afford coal so dad did extra work on Saturday afternoons and often Sundays too along with mum digging out past their best hawthorn hedges for farmers and replanting them. We were allowed to keet the wood & roots for fuel , several cart loads by the middle of December each year. Fine mesh fire guards were essential , for hawthorn spits out burning embers like crazy .Top had sq lift up things - it had a low temp oven at bottom - Mother called it "a simmering oven" - but too hot to prove bread!
It did not run radiators - just a hot water tank (by convection I would think...?)
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Baths at Nans were in out house - in a tin bath - water heated up in a copper - with coal fire underneath it.
I hated it - I was the youngest of three and went it last...
God help you if a stone happened to be in a a root , they went off with a hell of a bang . Bob our poor old dog was terrified of such events , As mentioned previously ... if he got up and legged it PDQ , then so did us kids knowing what was likely to happen .
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Most dogs have a sixth sense for fire - where a cat does not...
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for info reference burner is fine to use but if your going to exhaust it 1" is fine to use
these are waste oil burners same reference the basic is the first pic but you can come back down with the flue the rocket stove uses the same principle of inside rising heat then going lower
if you want to swap it to water you can but you need something inbetween
these are waste oil burners same reference the basic is the first pic but you can come back down with the flue the rocket stove uses the same principle of inside rising heat then going lower
if you want to swap it to water you can but you need something inbetween
