On Jul 26, 11:21*pm, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:26:09 -0700 (PDT), NT wrote:
Odd, almost every garden store/section that has greenhouse heaters
has paraffin, at a price of course. Domestic heating oil is the
same
stuff but without "a pleasant fragrance" or the pink or blue
colour.

Paraffin and heating oil are 28 second petroleum fraction, diesel is
35 second. Undemanding applications generally work ok with diesel, and
I expect this is one such.

I suspect it might be harder to light running on diesel, these
pressurised paraffin things cane be interesting at times, normally
cuased by not waiting for the meths to have warmed 'em up enough
first.

The old blow lamp of my Dads that ran on petrol is some what more
frightening. Got that and the parafin one somewhere...

Apparently the old pressurised boiling paraffin blowlamps had a poor
safety record, and that was the prime reason for the switch to more
expensive gas. I don't think I'd ever want to play with a petrol one.


NT