paraffin smell from gas cooker

[Andy Burns]

If the cooker didn't kill him nine years ago, I suspect it's been replaced a couple of since then ...

[Brian Gaff]

Eh, 2005? I'm sure there is a time warp around here... Brian

[Janders]

Ok< I'm not being funny, I just can't seem to find any information about this anywhere else, information posted on a thread in 2005 still might have some relevance now??? Or does fact have a sell by date. The reason I'm interested is not for the safety of the guy who posted 9 years ago, I have a gas hob that has just started smelling of paraffin and is making me feel light headed to cook on, if it is mono ethylene glycol added to the gas as an antifreeze and to prevent corrosion (see

smelling it burning on your hob isn't a good thing! This report by the World Health Organisation spells it out; its toxic to inhale, so why the f**k isn't anyone talking about how s**t this is? Just opening a window seems a bit lame when I'm standing over the flame cooking and breathing. I was hoping for a response from someone who might know something about this, as this is the only thread I've found that mentions the addition of Mono ethylene glycol to gas. Any takers?

[Davey]

No doubt about it, there are frequently old messages surfacing unexpectedly.

[Huge]

It's usually morons responding to things on Google Groups. Another reason that GG sucks.

[Brian Gaff]

Does not google gropes have a date on the posts then? Brian

[Tim+]

I think your tinfoil hat has slipped.

Tim

[Johny B Good]

Now you know why you should have _originated_ your own thread rather than make it look as though you were responding to a 9 year old one. You could even have just posted using the same subject name (minus the re: prefix).

You can be thankful that you even got any sort of response at all. Most of us can't even be arsed to waste time even to make a brief one liner response to someone who appears to be answering a 9 year old usenet posting since the 'fun at the poster's expense' has gotten so old.

You'd have been taken far more seriously if you _had_ started a new thread and mentioned that that 9 year old usenet post was the only info you'd been able to track down despite a protracted search (we tend to be more sympathetic to those who have at least made _some_ effort in gathering their own evidence rather than just jump in with a question they could have easily answered for themselves by a judicious use of a search engine or three).

[aminah]

replying to mike, aminah wrote: Hey I just seen your comment,I was varnishing yesterday in kitchen on these biggish wood cabinets now I can smell that parafin kinda of smell today when i turn oven on is this because of the varnishig am just worried as I have a 2 year old. Thanks x

[tabbypurr]

AIUI the paraffin smell is combusted hydrocarbons, and your vanish is probably hydrocarbon petroleum distillate based. I've never heard of anyone claiming paraffin heaters to be toxic to 2 year olds.

NT

[Brian Gaff]

A two year old what?

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Only if they drink the tank contents. Brian

[Fredxxx]

You've had 12 years to see the OP's comment. Why now?

[Andrew]

Replying to a 12 year old original post !!!!.

[judy]

My gas cooker smell of paraffin when light

[Clive Arthur]

What smell of when heavy?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Bunker oil

[Andrew]

Have you been painting with solvent-based paint ?. This causes some strange smells when you light a fire or stove that has an exposed flame.

[Fredxx]

That is my experience too.

[Tricky Dicky]

+1