Can you buy paraffin at a reasonable price?

[polygonum]

It was you who wrote that they were put the fuel in as they drive past your nose, was it not?

[dennis]

I don't think I said any such thing. But the perfume survives passing through the engine and you can smell it as they drive past, I can't smell it before its burnt but I don't have a good sense of smell these days.

[The Natural Philosopher]

yers you did.

[ajwebdesigns]

We use paraffin from a local hardware shop for one of these heaters..

[Tim+]

No spam please.

Tim

[bert]

I believe it can only be sold in sealed plastic containers now hence the price. Blame the EU

[Graham.]

He's posting from Wales and the company is in Norfolk. That doesn't rule out spam of course.

[Tim+]

He's added nothing to the thread other than a link to his chilli farm. Did the same in another thread.

[Andy Burns]

This seems to rule *in* spam

[Tim+]

What's the point in me munging his spam address if you go and repost it?

[Andy Burns]

Because the domain being spammed is the chilli farm one (which I did leave munged) not the web designer/SEO company.

When I point out someone as being a spammer, I do it in the hope that someday, someone searching for the idiot will find out he's a spammer and avoid doing business with them ...

[Muddymike]

You could try contacting a local bulk paraffin supplier and ask who they supply that sells it from a pump. I seem to remember our local farm fuel supplies place does so, or did when I was last there which admittedly was a year or two ago.

Last time I bough it from a pump was in Lesotho in place of petrol for the Land Rover I was driving. All petrol was sold out in the area.

Mike

[Nick]

Probably not worth using ajweb... for your website either, with a bottom of page like that: Footer Text 1 Footer Text 1 content area etc.

[drew.is.ness]

Iv just been setting up 2 Aladdin Blue Flame Heaters 1 is like new the othe r just needs a good clean and service iv found a Place on the out skirts of Edinburgh selling Paraffin (ie) Kerosene for 0.65 a Litre B&q want £6.97 for 4ltr so I'm sure iv bought the cheapest around and a ready supply

[john.fdcc]

I have two Tilley lamps which will only run on paraffin, I also have two Pe tromax 500 pressure lamps (available new, direct from Germany

) which will run on paraffin and quite happily run on car diesel. Now tilleys have a lower light output to that of a Petromax so for garden u se a Petromax wins hands down.They use about 100 mls of fuel per hour, wher eas a Tilley uses a bit less, but at time of writing (Sept. 2015) Tilleys a re only available second hand and nearly always need a good service before use so if you are not familiar with pressure lamps this could be a problem, although, there is plenty of information available online. I have uploaded two videos to YouTube one on how to light a Tilley and one on how to chang e a mantle on a Petromax

Elderly Tilley

How to change a mantle on a Petromax

[Andy Burns]

has probably got enough spares to build one from parts ...

[johnraymondhoggarth]

I paid £6-50 which is more than petrol it use to be half as much.

[Muddymike]

I use a multi fuel Coleman Tilley style lamp. It happily runs on red diesel.

Mike

[newshound]

My red diesel supplier sells it from the pump, I'll check the price next time I am there.

[Another John]

The OP was posted in 2013 [1] -- I smelled a rat when I saw he talked about 4 litres for as little as 6.50: the thieves have it up to 7.99 around here by now.

J.

[1] Not that this kind of topic ever loses currency.