I am looking for one of those very old stoves, I am not sure what they are called; perhaps cannon stove, cylinder stove or barrack room stove. They stand about 1m high x 25cm wide and feature a hot plate at the top and a flue pipe at the rear, just under the hot plate.
Can anyone advise where I might get one? Condition is unimportant.
Google finds
AJH
Something like this ?
Go ask a crusty and find out who the local converter of gas bottles into woodstoves is. On our street, it's me. This guy makes nice ones too
Woodstoves are different in design from coal or coke stoves. You need the right one. IMHE, I've never been too impressed with dual fuel attempts.
The style I want is more of a 'diet' design from the 1930's, i.e. without the pot-belly. Just like a little rocket. I can see why somebody suggested it was called a 'cannon' stove. Apparently they were very popular in their day.
What's a crusty?
Why does that not surprise me!
I'd like to see pictures of yours.
Mary
============ They might have been made by 'Cannon' - I think they still make stoves, cookers etc.
Cic.
Why do I feel a Finbarr Saunders moment coming on?
New Age traveller eco-warrior type with dreadlocks, combat boots and ethnic hat, plays the didgeridoo ...
(okay, that's hardly definitive but it's typical).
Ah - I get the picture, thanks. Never heard the word in that context before :-)
We used to call 'em tinkers.
Mary
Peter wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
2 in every RAF hut.mike
and the occasional very pink serviceman.
AJH
Cast iron has a number of attributes in stoves, something to do with how carbon occupies the sites oxygen might attempt to attack the iron.
Yes you need to provide far more secondary air.
AJH
"Rob Morley" wrote | > What's a crusty? | New Age traveller eco-warrior type with dreadlocks, combat boots | and ethnic hat, plays the didgeridoo ... | (okay, that's hardly definitive but it's typical).
Oh, you mean a Linux systems manager :-)
Owain
It's what you find at the other end of the lead from a Bristol string terrier.
_Not_ a "tinker" though. Quite a different crew.
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mary Fisher" saying something like:
Now that's not something you see every day.
I found a picture. This is the design of stove I am looking for.
These are a bit nicer, don't you think?
Oh. I often wondered what my English neighbour did ...
Mary
that rooftop boudoir in Moulin Rouge without her vest on. If you have to heat a Belle Epoque knocking-shop, they'd be just the ticket.
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