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Ours got lobbed after Mum decided it wasn't worth the risk of combining parrafin heaters, two juvenile pyromanics and Brentford Nylon's finest curtains.

Actually, we'd already done the empirical testing; the sofa was next for flammability trials.

Originally Posted by cloudbuster

Ahh, the memories of lugging 5-gallon cans of Esso Blue 2 miles through three feet of snow from the nearest filling station, aged eight. Yes, happy days indeed.

What's blue and got four bums?

We snaffled my granddad's genuine 2 gallon paraffin cans. They were manufactured to dispense fuel only when totally inverted, so there was no danger of spillage. Unless you overfilled the tank...

Our heater had a big (to an eight-year-old) glass bottle for a tank, with a spring-loaded plunger that kept the fuel in when you loaded it, inverted, into the back of the heater. Pretty effective, until you managed to balance the tank on that plunger when trying to load a full tank. House stank for weeks, and the task of loading got handed-down to another sibling.

To show that, amid the "All Our Yesterdays", we're not really deviating from the thread (much)...

...on one of these Cop reality programmes they other day, the cops suspected that a van was being driven on a diesel/chip oil/paraffin mix. It was said that although biofuels such as chip oil were permitted (to a limited quantity), use of paraffin was absolutely illegal because there's no tax applied to it.

If that's the case, then that could be a cheap option for EX_STAB to heat his upper rooms. Remembering, of course, to leave the windows open a bit to let the fumes out.

Same as the Jet A1 we go through on the rigs. The stuff we send back as samples, plus the residue in the pods, goes back to the supplier, who then flogs it on for central-heating fuel, at which point it attracts duty, I believe.

The old lights on road works were useful for lighting up dens as kids.

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Originally Posted by cloudbuster

Ahh, the memories of lugging 5-gallon cans of Esso Blue 2 miles through three feet of snow from the nearest filling station, aged eight. Yes, happy days indeed.

We used Alladin pink & it was delivered by a guy in a van similar to the pic below. All we had to do was lug a couple of 5 gall drums from the back way to be filled.