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What memories can do for some, eh?One of the guys who used to work at our place told me a story about these.
When he was a young lad they had one in their outside bog. Now, being a young lad he used to go in there to 'knock one out'.
He told us that in his adult life, when he smelled meths it used to give him a boner.....
it was. also i remember meths camping stoves. like a can about 6" diameter with a meths burner ib the bottom. you lit the meths then put your pan (or tin of beans) on top. think they were only a few quid.Wasn’t it the old paraffin fuelled primus stoves and blow lamps that used meths to get them going?
Meths, Mamod fixed steam engine
The one I'm on about was used as a sort of mini blow ;amp carried in Sparky's tool bags for emergency soldering, all the Sparky's had them when I was an Apprentice, nothing like a Tilly lamp at all,The paraffin lamps that you had to pump up are called tilley lamps, I still have one that my mum bought for the power cuts in the early seventies.
The British Antarctic Survey teams still use them, simple and effective without too much to go wrong when you are in the ice-cold arsend of nowhere. I think they struggle to get spares these days!Wasn’t it the old paraffin fuelled primus stoves and blow lamps that used meths to get them going?
Crikey I was asking about an old fashioned tool that Electricians carried in their tool bags, didn't really expect a History lecture. Vintage "ALTOCK MAJOR AUTOMATIC BLOW LAMP" Google it folks I can't copy the link but use Google or you preferred search EngineThe British Antarctic Survey teams still use them, simple and effective without too much to go wrong when you are in the ice-cold arsend of nowhere. I think they struggle to get spares these days!
how many window panes did he crack?My Dad had a paraffin blow lamp. He used to strip old paint off the window frames. He used to send me up the local hardware shop, to get the paraffin.
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