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Lilysmum
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| We had a parrafin heater,my mum used to put it under the washing creel in the back room to air the clothes!!!(An accident waiting to happen) It's horrifying to think we went to school with our clothes stinking of parafin.Anyway the inevitable happened and it set on fire and the whole lot almost went up. I suppose we had to wear damp clothes after that. |
My wife's family had a "Flatley Drier" which was an electrically heated cabinet, with several wooden rods across the top, you hung the clothes from the rods, turned on the drier and put the lid on. |
We got one of those "after the fire" but it was probably not much less of a fire hazard than the parafin heater,good for drying nappies and thats another thing you don't see anymore,nice white nappies blowing on the washing line.
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stevief
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I can remember watching my Dad decorating and using an old paint stripper.It was fuelled by meths which was contained in a small cylinder and had to be pressurised by means of a plunger.When sufficient pressure was reached,it emitted a tiny jet of meths which was then ignited.(proberbly by a cigarette end!)
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Trojan
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| stevief wrote: |
| I can remember watching my Dad decorating and using an old paint stripper.It was fuelled by meths which was contained in a small cylinder and had to be pressurised by means of a plunger.When sufficient pressure was reached,it emitted a tiny jet of meths which was then ignited.(proberbly by a cigarette end!) |
I've still got one of those somewhere - only it works on paraffin.
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sundowner
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| Trojan wrote: |
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| I can remember watching my Dad decorating and using an old paint stripper.It was fuelled by meths which was contained in a small cylinder and had to be pressurised by means of a plunger.When sufficient pressure was reached,it emitted a tiny jet of meths which was then ignited.(proberbly by a cigarette end!) |
I've still got one of those somewhere - only it works on paraffin. |
Are we talking about a blow lamp the ones made of brass?
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Trojan
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| sundowner wrote: |
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| I can remember watching my Dad decorating and using an old paint stripper.It was fuelled by meths which was contained in a small cylinder and had to be pressurised by means of a plunger.When sufficient pressure was reached,it emitted a tiny jet of meths which was then ignited.(proberbly by a cigarette end!) |
I've still got one of those somewhere - only it works on paraffin. |
Are we talking about a blow lamp the ones made of brass? |
Yes - don't you mean the same thing?
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chameleon
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| Trojan wrote: |
| sundowner wrote: |
| Trojan wrote: |
| stevief wrote: |
| I can remember watching my Dad decorating and using an old paint stripper.It was fuelled by meths which was contained in a small cylinder and had to be pressurised by means of a plunger.When sufficient pressure was reached,it emitted a tiny jet of meths which was then ignited.(proberbly by a cigarette end!) |
I've still got one of those somewhere - only it works on paraffin. |
Are we talking about a blow lamp the ones made of brass? |
Yes - don't you mean the same thing? |
I re,e,ber the old plumber and his brass blowlamps. Sure he filled them with petrol though, pumped them up, covered the top with his hand whilst opening the valve slightly then lit it. The whole damned thing would burst into flames and he'd leave it to 'warm up' - a stonge noisy jet of flame would develop and he'd proceed with the noble art of wiping a lead joint to perfection.
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sundowner
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| chameleon wrote: |
| Trojan wrote: |
| sundowner wrote: |
| Trojan wrote: |
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| I can remember watching my Dad decorating and using an old paint stripper.It was fuelled by meths which was contained in a small cylinder and had to be pressurised by means of a plunger.When sufficient pressure was reached,it emitted a tiny jet of meths which was then ignited.(proberbly by a cigarette end!) |
I've still got one of those somewhere - only it works on paraffin. |
Are we talking about a blow lamp the ones made of brass? |
Yes - don't you mean the same thing? |
I re,e,ber the old plumber and his brass blowlamps. Sure he filled them with petrol though, pumped them up, covered the top with his hand whilst opening the valve slightly then lit it. The whole damned thing would burst into flames and he'd leave it to 'warm up' - a stonge noisy jet of flame would develop and he'd proceed with the noble art of wiping a lead joint to perfection. |
How things move on they only need a match to do a joint now.
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chameleon
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| sundowner wrote: |
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| Trojan wrote: |
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| Trojan wrote: |
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| I can remember watching my Dad decorating and using an old paint stripper.It was fuelled by meths which was contained in a small cylinder and had to be pressurised by means of a plunger.When sufficient pressure was reached,it emitted a tiny jet of meths which was then ignited.(proberbly by a cigarette end!) |
I've still got one of those somewhere - only it works on paraffin. |
Are we talking about a blow lamp the ones made of brass? |
Yes - don't you mean the same thing? |
I re,e,ber the old plumber and his brass blowlamps. Sure he filled them with petrol though, pumped them up, covered the top with his hand whilst opening the valve slightly then lit it. The whole damned thing would burst into flames and he'd leave it to 'warm up' - a stonge noisy jet of flame would develop and he'd proceed with the noble art of wiping a lead joint to perfection. |
How things move on they only need a match to do a joint now. |
Not even that - 'push-on' fittings available and widely used for some time for both plastic and copper tube.
Probably means the site labourer will be doing the plumbing next! (No offence intended at all to these hard workers - but I'm sure they'llunderstand my point).
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Trojan
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You can still get "Yorkshire" fittings though. My blowlamp didn't have a pump, it had a depression around the top of the tank which you filled with meths, and set light to, this heated up the body of the lamp and turned the paraffin into vapour, once it was lit the heat of the torch kept up the pressure.
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Bramley4woods
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| Trojan wrote: |
| You can still get "Yorkshire" fittings though. My blowlamp didn't have a pump, it had a depression around the top of the tank which you filled with meths, and set light to, this heated up the body of the lamp and turned the paraffin into vapour, once it was lit the heat of the torch kept up the pressure. |
Well mine had a pump as well. First the meths in the depression round the top was lit, then after the meths was nearly burned away you pumped to pressurise the reservoir of paraffin, at that stage if the temperature of the convoluted curlywurly heat exchanger -jet assembly in the meths flame was high enough the paraffin would vapourise therein and it would emit a jet of paraffin vapour which burned as a torch. If not it emitted a thin stream of liquid paraffin which cooled off the heat exchanger scarcely burned at all and gave no heat.
Then you'd need to do it all over again from the top.
I used to see advertised in the back of the Daily Herald (along with the seebackrascopes etc) a cheap meths blowlamp which looked like two cigar tubes clamped side by side called the "Voltcock". One cylinder had a pipe coming out from it which turned at right angles and then went over the top of the second tube which looked from the picture in the cheap column ad as if it contained meths and a bit of wadding for pre heating.
I wonder if it was one of these StevieF was talking about.
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FLOJO
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| Lilysmum wrote: |
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| Lilysmum wrote: |
| We had a parrafin heater,my mum used to put it under the washing creel in the back room to air the clothes!!!(An accident waiting to happen) It's horrifying to think we went to school with our clothes stinking of parafin.Anyway the inevitable happened and it set on fire and the whole lot almost went up. I suppose we had to wear damp clothes after that. |
My wife's family had a "Flatley Drier" which was an electrically heated cabinet, with several wooden rods across the top, you hung the clothes from the rods, turned on the drier and put the lid on. |
We got one of those "after the fire" but it was probably not much less of a fire hazard than the parafin heater,good for drying nappies and thats another thing you don't see anymore,nice white nappies blowing on the washing line. |
hi Lilysmum, Here in South Africa when you drive past the Townships they have the whitest nappies I have seen for a long time blowing in the wind and it makes you wonder how they get them so white, no stains in sight and all by hand washing. The white people only buy disposable.
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chameleon
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| Trojan wrote: |
| You can still get "Yorkshire" fittings though. My blowlamp didn't have a pump, it had a depression around the top of the tank which you filled with meths, and set light to, this heated up the body of the lamp and turned the paraffin into vapour, once it was lit the heat of the torch kept up the pressure. |
Sounds like what I remember Trojan, definately had a pump though, I suppose once hot, it was then 'self pressurising'. And, in those days, he could leave his copper tube outside on the shed roof and it would still be there in the morning - I'd give it half an hour now
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stevief
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| Trojan wrote: |
| You can still get "Yorkshire" fittings though. My blowlamp didn't have a pump, it had a depression around the top of the tank which you filled with meths, and set light to, this heated up the body of the lamp and turned the paraffin into vapour, once it was lit the heat of the torch kept up the pressure. |
Hi Trojan, THAT'S THE ONE! I knew meths featured somewhere.I was only a kid at the time and because it involved fire and flames I found the whole thing fascinating.
The Blow Lamp,I'm always confusing it with the Jack Warner film.....
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chameleon
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| stevief wrote: |
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| You can still get "Yorkshire" fittings though. My blowlamp didn't have a pump, it had a depression around the top of the tank which you filled with meths, and set light to, this heated up the body of the lamp and turned the paraffin into vapour, once it was lit the heat of the torch kept up the pressure. |
Hi Trojan, THAT'S THE ONE! I knew meths featured somewhere.I was only a kid at the time and because it involved fire and flames I found the whole thing fascinating.
The Blow Lamp,I'm always confusing it with the Jack Warner film..... |
I was always facinated when anyone like the Plumber had to call and needed to know the how what and why, if I'm honest though, when very young I was petrified when old Ken got his lamp out and set fire to the whole b***** thing!
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Leeds-lad
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Does anyone remember these
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Leeds-lad
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Sorry about that Link didn't come up
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Leeds-lad
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Try again
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jf
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Red-and-white striped roadworks tents, as popularised by Benny Hill. I did spot one in the middle of Armley town street about a year ago, but that was probably the first sighting in a decade or two.
I'd love to get my hands on one for camping at a festival (someone claimed you could still buy them somewhere) .
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Leeds-lad
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Something else you don't see nowadays
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FLOJO
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Can anyone remember Blue Band Margarine? It came in 4 quarter pound packs in a box,also Irish roll bacon, now all we find is shoulder,back and streaky.
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Si
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I don't remember Benedict Processed Peas, but they don't look good! As an ex-art director, I'm guessing they didn't use real butter for the product shot, as it melts too quickly under the lights. God knows what they used instead, but it looks disgusting!
Mashed potatoes were often used instead of ice-cream for the same reason! Also cigarette smoke was blown through various products using a straw to make them look piping-hot.
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Lilysmum
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The benedict peas reminded me, does anyone remember "surprise peas" I think the may have been freeze dried, you put them in boiling water for a couple of minutes and they were a bit like frozen peas when they came out.
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arry awk
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Hi Lily's mum.
Yes Surprise Peas are well remembered! mainly due to
the gifts and offers made by said firm!
I can remember my Pa-inLaw coming home from his
OAP meeting in the early 70's with a big grin on his
face saying to us, 'Guess what you're getting with
Surprise peas' 'No, What dad?'sez we.
'Why,WET LEGS of course' sez he!
Suppose that went down
well with the pensioners!
Always the joker he was.
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Si
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Anyone remember "Squeak" (I think!) It was a kind of dried potato rosti (thin strips of reconstituted spud - just add water.) The box contained a red plastic thing, so when you squeezed the packet, it squeaked! Late 60s or early 70s at a guess.
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sundowner
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| Si wrote: |
| Anyone remember "Squeak" (I think!) It was a kind of dried potato rosti (thin strips of reconstituted spud - just add water.) The box contained a red plastic thing, so when you squeezed the packet, it squeaked! Late 60s or early 70s at a guess. |
Hi Si I remember Squeak do you remember Pom this was a type of dried potato my mam used to give us just after the war allso dried egg in a packet The Pom to me did not taste any thing like potato the egg on the other hand was spot on.
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