On Jan 15, 10:17*pm, robgraham wrote:
On Jan 15, 12:41*pm, Clive George wrote:





On 15/01/2011 11:24, BartC wrote:

I shall stick with my Coleman lamp
and Optimus stove, both run on pump petrol, no fuss at all.

Now petrol, in or near a tent, I *would* have an objection to...

Decent petrol stoves are good. I can run mine safely in the bell end of
a small tent, although that's reserved for when it's ****ing down.

and Skipweasel

* Bah - petrol's horrid stuff to have in a tent. Go for paraffin every
* time.

Don't need to prime my stove :-)

I'd probably use neither for a big stove though - gas seems to be the
answer there.

As a traditional camper for the reason that camping was developed I
regard you lot as a bunch of woosies and poofters.

Electricity, televisions, computers - what a bunch of wasters.

And as for petrol in a tent, that is serious madness - I've seen
several near disaster accidents with petrol and regard it as the spawn
of the devil where stoves are concerned. *Gas has it's hazard but at
least it it is contained within a container. *And paraffin, bless it's
heart, if the stove is upset, all that happens is a very unpleasant
atmosphere of paraffin vapour and a hole in the groundsheet from the
flame spreader.

Rob- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Tents are for poufters. I have slept in the Venezuelan jungle with
just a hammock, mosquito net and plastic sheet. My injun serfs cooked
for me.