Built in pump otherwise very similar. Not much change in 70 years:-)
Speed Weeding
May 09, 2025
Last reply: 1 year ago
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Good (but also terrifying) fun. I still have one (somewhere) but I expect the pump washers have decayed and it has probably rusted through to the point where it cannot hold pressure.
Just given mine, still in good working order, to my brother-in-law. Don't know it's exact age but I bought spares from Sheen in Nottingham in 1988 & I think it was a few years old then.
In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, alan_m snipped-for-privacy@admac.myzen.co.uk> writes
I bought a second hand paraffin one years ago. Same result. Exterminates the visible part, but not the roots.
Never found the butane ones powerful enough ,if that is the method you want to use get one of these
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. . The weeds will always come back eventually but its fun to use, loads available 2nd hand as many people can’t get them going properly as they are too impatient with the starting heat up. You only really need to pass over enough to the degrade the plants cellular structure and they then shrivel and die but I prefer the scorched earth policy and leave them smouldering, rake over a couple days later and repeat.
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