Where can you buy paraffin these days? A local garage had a paraffin pump
but that must have been 20 years ago. I haven't seen it since then.

Kevin

Hardware stores. Garden centres sell it, but very expensively, in 1 gallon
containers. Best getting your own can, and getting a local hardware store to
fill it. Still somewhere in the region of £4-5/gallon though, I think.

"Zen83237" wrote in message
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Where can you buy paraffin these days? A local garage had a paraffin pump
but that must have been 20 years ago. I haven't seen it since then.

Kevin

On 08/01/10 22:20, Zen83237 wrote:

Where can you buy paraffin these days?

5litre plastic containers in B&Q, more expensive than 4star though.
getting your Tilley lamp ready?

On 8 Jan, 22:20, "Zen83237" wrote:
Where can you buy paraffin these days?

Diesel is cheaper, even DERV with road tax on it!

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On 8 Jan, 22:20, "Zen83237" wrote:
Where can you buy paraffin these days?

there's a garage in Mansfield that sell it from the pump, about 85p a litre
last time i got some, but i didnt need parafin really, was to clean out my
diesel heater,

kerosene is about 60p a litre, smells more but not a problem for my
application as the heater is mounted under the motorhome, so only tent
campers can smell it

i am only running it on kerosene over winter, runs a bit cooler on it than
diesel, but cleans the carbon out brilliantly, heater is on the frost
setting, so being used a lot atm, when i start using the motorhome again
i'll go back to red diesel.

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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On 08/01/10 22:20, Zen83237 wrote:

Where can you buy paraffin these days?

5litre plastic containers in B&Q, more expensive than 4star though.
getting your Tilley lamp ready?


Sure it was 5l?
I saw some 4l containers.

"John Whitworth" wrote in message
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Hardware stores. Garden centres sell it, but very expensively, in 1 gallon
containers. Best getting your own can, and getting a local hardware store
to fill it. Still somewhere in the region of £4-5/gallon though, I think.

Some garages sell it too, typically in 4 litre containers.

"Zen83237" wrote in message
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Where can you buy paraffin these days? A local garage had a paraffin pump
but that must have been 20 years ago. I haven't seen it since then.

Kevin


Most allotments have a shop for their members, so try and get pally with a n
allotment holder and ask if they could get you some.

On 08/01/10 23:34, dennis@home wrote:

"Andy Burns" wrote:

5litre plastic containers in B&Q

Sure it was 5l? I saw some 4l containers.

Quite possibly, it was a couple of years ago that I last bought some.

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 23:12:42 -0000, "gazz" wrote:

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On 8 Jan, 22:20, "Zen83237" wrote:
Where can you buy paraffin these days?

there's a garage in Mansfield that sell it from the pump, about 85p a litre
last time i got some, but i didnt need parafin really, was to clean out my
diesel heater,

kerosene is about 60p a litre, smells more but not a problem for my
application as the heater is mounted under the motorhome, so only tent
campers can smell it

i am only running it on kerosene over winter, runs a bit cooler on it than
diesel, but cleans the carbon out brilliantly, heater is on the frost
setting, so being used a lot atm, when i start using the motorhome again
i'll go back to red diesel.

Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?

MM

"MM" wrote in message
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Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?

For transport use, probably - but for heating, no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_diesel

"MM" wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 23:12:42 -0000, "gazz" wrote:

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On 8 Jan, 22:20, "Zen83237" wrote:
Where can you buy paraffin these days?

there's a garage in Mansfield that sell it from the pump, about 85p a
litre
last time i got some, but i didnt need parafin really, was to clean out my
diesel heater,

kerosene is about 60p a litre, smells more but not a problem for my
application as the heater is mounted under the motorhome, so only tent
campers can smell it

i am only running it on kerosene over winter, runs a bit cooler on it than
diesel, but cleans the carbon out brilliantly, heater is on the frost
setting, so being used a lot atm, when i start using the motorhome again
i'll go back to red diesel.

Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?

nope, it's for anything that dosent get used on the road, hence a heater or
generator are allowed to use it, thank bod too, as with the prices creaping
up again for white diesel, i would prolly have to go back to gas for
heating.

On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:12:36 +0000, MM wrote:

Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?

Only a small amount of duty on it (10p/l?) so you can't use it for
motive power on the public highway (with some exceptions, like
tractors etc). You can use it in boilers and gen sets etc.

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Cheers
Dave.

gazz wrote:
"MM" wrote in message

Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?

nope, it's for anything that dosent get used on the road

....except boats. Clearly they don't get used on the road, hence
shouldn't be paying road levels of tax, but someone has recently decided
that "all those rich gits with yachts" should have to pay road tax for
it nonetheless.

(Actually it doesn't make a vast difference to me, as a 15HP engine used
at fairly low revs for a few hours per trip doesn't drink that much
diesel, but the principle still annoys.)

Pete