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Engine starting, would that be hot bulb/semi-diesel engines?
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View attachment 126579 Taylors 028 pressurised paraffin cooker, made in Maldon in Essex.. about 70 years ago and in daily use.
This pic is when I bought it in 2014, for £375. They are still available new but a shocking price, well into 4 figures.
(Not so shiny now..)
It has a pressurised paraffin tank, 1 bar is plenty, and you need to prime it with meths to get the burners hot enough to vapourise the paraffin.
Its favourite diet is jet fuel, if you are lucky enough to find a drum,which just seems to be nice clean paraffin. Diesel or petrol, dont even think about it!
The jets soot up now and again, but when your dinner is half-cooked, you become a dab hand at changing them, think F1 pitstop
Not as fancy as that but quite cheap, saw plenty for sale in India last year. Widely used by the street food stalls
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Yes the very same, its been up many a mountain with me and it deserved better treatment than it was getting. Last used in the late eighties it still had a slosh of fuel in it and after cleaning and a quick prick.. it ran well. I didn't run it long as I had stuck some diesel in it to try it and didn't want to defeat some of the cleaning effort. (edit ) in the red tin the original 'made in Sweden' spanner which I'm both pleased and surprised I still have it.
I have another one in the loft or shed which I can't find at the moment but that's a big thing.
I have a trangia meths stove which is my go-to stove as its impossible to fail unless you physically break / puncture the burner and I like things that are designed and made to 'just work' ;-)
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I have a few petrol and paraffin powered stuff.
4 petrol powered blowlamps
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The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Guess who is kicking myself.
Me.
Back in the late 1980's and early 1990,s I scraped so many of the stoves and torches. They were "2 a penny" and brass was fetching a good price in the scrap yards.
Oh well hindsight is 20/20 vision.
Me.
Back in the late 1980's and early 1990,s I scraped so many of the stoves and torches. They were "2 a penny" and brass was fetching a good price in the scrap yards.
Oh well hindsight is 20/20 vision.
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:-) yep, I feel the same about my old minis, series 1 Landrovers and mk1 escorts.... but then again I didn't have the foresight, wit or real estate back then .. hey ho!
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And of course using a bottle gas stove is so much safer.... The yanks have the right idea, nothing but electric cooking on pleasure boats.Indeed, or a wooden boat saturated in Linseed Oil and tar
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That's just to make the job of the FBI easier - any explosion and it has to be the work of the Cosa Nostra
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Seeing this thread reminded me of a blow lamp i have at home that i started to restore some time back and got put off. It's an Optumus 411 that my great grandfather bought for my grandad. It had been knocked around over the years till it came in my possession.
I'm missing the lid off it and the pressure release valve is broken off. Does anyone on here have these or know where i could look? I'm never going to use it but I plan to polish it up and put it on display in my workshop and I'd love to put it back to working condition if i could.
I'm missing the lid off it and the pressure release valve is broken off. Does anyone on here have these or know where i could look? I'm never going to use it but I plan to polish it up and put it on display in my workshop and I'd love to put it back to working condition if i could.
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I just bought my first one for a fiver and I was gonna make a table lamp out of it but seeing this thread I kinda want to restore it but looking at the base it looks like the bottom has been soldered as the seam looks to be cracked around the circumference.
It's the smaller one of the 2.
It's the smaller one of the 2.
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Mrs TYA told me not to bring home one paraffin lamp. She thinks I have enough.
So today I didn't.
Greenback did. I am safe.
I they are in the play pen.
Am I safe?
So today I didn't.
Greenback did. I am safe.
I they are in the play pen.
Am I safe?
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Better hoover the house, cook dinner, tidy up and put up those shelves before she gets back and sees thise
