Ian_m wrote:

When I was a kid, my uncle used to use the bottom half of a hot water
tank on legs with an immersion in to boil water in the room, leave
1/2-1hour and walk in and just pull all the paper off by hand. I am
sure health and safety would have a major wobbler if they saw this
type of thing today.

Hmmm! at todays electricity prices, I guess the OP would take a wobbler

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Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite