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Originally Posted by JimmyH155
Yes, that's the way to go, Tornado  . I remember in my youth we had those dreadful mobile paraffin heaters, and if you didn't get the flame just right, dreadful fumes would emanate from the heater. Or even worse, we had those diabolical paraffin heaters that took an upside down bottle of fuel - one small leak, or knock into it and the whole lot would catch fire. I remember once having to throw a blazing heater out of a third floor window from my sister's bedroom into the back yard - how the whole house didn't go up I dont know. I could hardly see the flaming heater from the black fog that had filled the room  |
We had them too when I was first married, cheap heating until M Thatcher taxed the Kero. Ours were the round wick type with the auto snuffer that snapped down if you bumped them. Those drip feed things were death traps.
Bill