5 1/2 pint blowlamp

I enjoy reading old ME magazines and LBSC frequently mentions 5 1/2 pint blowlamps as if they are the ultimate before moving up to oxy acetylene.

Purely out of curiosity what would be the equivalent in propane burner - 50mm????

Incidentally Amazon still lists a 2 lt paraffin blowlamp, and another where the capacity is not mentioned, but it looks strikingly like the paraffin blowlamp I used as a teenager 50 years ago with the burner on the end of a flexible hose (and with which I nearly incinerated a group of friends - long story!).

Nick

Fearsome things... I had a 5 pint one and it was awful. I think part of the problem was that even when warmed up it sprayed the job with unburned paraffin and contaminated it. I bought a Sievert 2944 as a replacement and it was superb.

I used one of those blowlamps years ago,found it difficult to control,but was a very effective flamethrower ! Set fire to my bench many a time,and a few other things as well. Gave it early retirement and bought a gas torch instead,easier to use but not quite as exciting.

I can still remember my dad using a blowlamp to remove paint from a door in the 60s

Wow, barbecue city, I felt sorry for that door and the house stank for days

I remember that in 1960 one of the older workshop instructors who taught us soldering, brazing and silver soldering, a very pedantic Mr. Ichabod Hume, insisted that these fiendish devices were called 'a 5 pint brazing lamp'. Made my puny wrists ache holding it over a workpiece!

Trevor

Still have a petrol one liberated from a German factory in 1945 by my Dad, works well last used some years ago to heat up a cylinder block from an outboard engine to fit a new liner. Fearsome thins but needs must !

John