Parrafin
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Places like,
B&Q, Homebase etc should have it in stock Tengu.
From memory its around the £5 for a five liter/gallon in a white plastic container. Pester the Customer Service people, thats what they're for.
ATB
Ogri the trog
B&Q, Homebase etc should have it in stock Tengu.
From memory its around the £5 for a five liter/gallon in a white plastic container. Pester the Customer Service people, thats what they're for.
ATB
Ogri the trog
I got what I think was a 5L container for less than £5 from the local independent hardware shop - and then carried it home on the bus in my rucksack hoping nobody noticed the smell!
Geoff
Geoff
Try hardware stores. There is a place in coventry (phillips) that sells the stuff loose, for considerably less than £1/L.
Average price seems to be $4.50 -£4.99 for a four litre bottle
Keep an eye out for Hurrican lamps like these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BLS-HURRICANE...ryZ36112QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
you can pick them up cheaper. Less than half a pint of paraffin will last you all night and gives about the same light as several candles. On a camp trip, I think a litre of fuel would last you a week at @ 5 hours a night burn time
Keep an eye out for Hurrican lamps like these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BLS-HURRICANE...ryZ36112QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
you can pick them up cheaper. Less than half a pint of paraffin will last you all night and gives about the same light as several candles. On a camp trip, I think a litre of fuel would last you a week at @ 5 hours a night burn time
Try home heating oil. It is Kerosine after all, and I have used in hurricane lamps during a power cut.
but would you use it in a camping stove??? - the stuff i get delivered is supposed to have various additives in it
the last lot of paraffin i bought (for cleaning the chain on my motorbike) was from Focus/do-it-all. can't remember the price but it was with the greenhouse stuff
You can use this in a whisperlite international with the k jet but you will need something else to prime it first like zippo fuel.
Those hurrican lamps are great, picked mine up for I think a pound brand new! I chucked a random amount of parrafin in at Delamere, no idea how much i put in as it was dark, but it was stilla light the next morning when i woke up!
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