5 1/2 pint blowlamp

5 1/2 pint blowlamp

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4 July 2018 at 18:02 #360748
Nick Clarke 3
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I enjoy reading old ME magazines and LBSC frequently mentions 5 1/2 pint blowlamps as if they are the ultimate before moving up to oxy acetylene.

Purely out of curiosity what would be the equivalent in propane burner – 50mm????

Incidentally Amazon still lists a 2 lt paraffin blowlamp, and another where the capacity is not mentioned, but it looks strikingly like the paraffin blowlamp I used as a teenager 50 years ago with the burner on the end of a flexible hose (and with which I nearly incinerated a group of friends – long story!).

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4 July 2018 at 18:02 #26071
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4 July 2018 at 18:07 #360750
Nigel Bennett
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Fearsome things… I had a 5 pint one and it was awful. I think part of the problem was that even when warmed up it sprayed the job with unburned paraffin and contaminated it. I bought a Sievert 2944 as a replacement and it was superb.
6 July 2018 at 12:26 #361009
larry phelan 1
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I used one of those blowlamps years ago,found it difficult to control,but was a very effective flamethrower ! Set fire to my bench many a time,and a few other things as well. Gave it early retirement and bought a gas torch instead,easier to use but not quite as exciting.
6 July 2018 at 14:31 #361021
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I can still remember my dad using a blowlamp to remove paint from a door in the 60s

Wow, barbecue city, I felt sorry for that door and the house stank for days
6 July 2018 at 14:35 #361022
Trevor Crossman 1
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I remember that in 1960 one of the older workshop instructors who taught us soldering, brazing and silver soldering, a very pedantic Mr. Ichabod Hume, insisted that these fiendish devices were called 'a 5 pint brazing lamp'. Made my puny wrists ache holding it over a workpiece!

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7 July 2018 at 11:50 #361119
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Still have a petrol one liberated from a German factory in 1945 by my Dad, works well last used some years ago to heat up a cylinder block from an outboard engine to fit a new liner. Fearsome thins but needs must !

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