Parafin blowlamp

Now that's what I call a proper blowlamp!

I think the old paraffin blowlamp is hugely underated these days.

I did all my silver soldering with a brass half pint paraffin blowlamp for 2 years due to being skint as a schoolboy/student, and an ex WD 1 gallon paraffin blowlamp to do the first few joints on my first miniature loco boiler. That beast could be a real flame thrower when starting up!

Then I shelled out on a secondhand seivert propane set that is still in use.

The half pint blow lamp was the same my Dad used to thaw out pipes in the winter of 1962/3.

I grew up with Dad's primus camping stove in it's tin in the back of the car, and paraffin lamps when very young during the power cuts in the early 1970s.

We also had a paraffin heater on the upstairs landing when I was a kid. A sort of slender pyramid affair that was as tall as me as a kid and a mica covered opening on the door.

Cheers,

Julian

Julian

Yep, my dad had paraffin blowlamps and paraffin heaters too, plus Tilley and hurricane lamps as well.

Ah, that reminds of the Valor Valiant we had in our house. It always fascinated me as a kid ......

I came home from school one lunchtime, I must have been about 10, and the whole house was filled with black smoke. The Valor Valiant had been left on all morning, and the wick had malfuntioned. The house was covered in a black sooty residue for days, until mum cleaned it up! And that was the last I saw of the Valor Valiant.

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Edited By Steven Vine on 14/04/2017 00:56:16

Where I was born and grew up, in deepest rural Sussex, we didn't have electricity until I was 11. So we had three Primus stoves and two Tilley lanterns, including a wall mount one that I've never seen an example of since. Dad had a Primus stove in his workshop and two Primus blow lamps. The Valor cylindrical heater in the scullery always had the kettle on top, careful how you went past that!

35 odd years ago I was quietly amused when a friend bought a brass blowlamp from an "antique" shop for rather more than I had just paid for the identical model brand new from the local tool stall....

I the hall stairwell of our house we had a paraffin heater where a one gallon metal can fitted in a holder at the rear of the heater in an inverted position, as a very small boy (about 3-4) I was playing with Dad's screwdriver on the landing above when it went through the gap in the banisters and guess where it landed? It pierced the can which dumped a gallon of paraffin in the hall, luckily the heater was not lit at the time.

Mike

During the 1950s we had 2 Velor heaters, one a single burner, black cylindrical, and ancient, the other reasonably modern rectangular shape with two burners, also a two burner petrol stove, aTilly lamp, and a Coleman lamp(non pressurized). Now days you have a hard job getting good heating, and lighting Kerosene.

Ian S C

Those Motor Such ones look pretty hefty. My paraffin one has never worked well, and isn't much better with petrol in it. I know how good it should be after having a Coleman petrol stove.

Regards

Richard.

I have used a gasoline one and works well. I am wondering about the picture above of what must be a baby Dalek!

Maybe from an old thread, but here's hoping someone can help.

I am trying, unsuccessfully, to find a supplier for a burner jet for a paraffin blowtorch.

It's Burmos unit that is complete other than its jet.

Thanks

Steve

As Nick Hughes has suggested, "Base Camp" are an excellent source of all the things you need to keep your pressure stoves, lamps, etc in working order.