Do people collect these? Are spares avaliable? If so what would be a good one to get, not the crown jewels of blow lamps, just a decent make? I would quite like to have a go at getting one operational. Any links etc? Cheers
@JEFF JOHNSON Thanks for sharing the link. I have a couple of blowlamps in my fettle queue. Cheers Pete
Thanks for the link Jeff, very useful I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one with a blowlamp or two hiding in the queue.. Stevie
Primus, of course. Then you get both the crown jewel and a decent make, topped with a fair price. Oh, well... any model, brand or type... it all depend on what you need it for. Is it brute power or just small soldering you're out for? Starting a semi-diesel/hot bulb engine? You really need to specify your purpose since blow lamps cover such a large field of use.
Theres a lot of Primus on fleabag. Bladon comes up a lot and RM, and monitor. there seems to be millions out there. Just plumbing, soldering. I wonder about spare parts availability.
Come up and see me sometime. I seem to remember seeing three or four in my spares shed the other day and I don't want them. I will be astounded if I can't make simple things like a few blow lamps work and they will be for free. I'm just North of Hemel Hempstead on the M1 so not an impossible distance from London. ::Neil::
Liquid-fueled pressurized lamps, stoves and blowlamps go hand-in-hand when in comes to collections. So you're interested in the working principles of any one of them, its highly plausible that you would too for the other two. I have a couple of British Monitors, a Governor, a Japanese one which I've forgotten the brand and an unidentified(yet) one. Never light-up one in the house. They can fireball and turn to flame-throwers if the jet is enlarged or from poor vaporization of the fuel due to some other reasons.
Correct .. what is it that you want to scorch ? .. A dodgy bit of plastic pipe or a slimy stripy snake ? Do they have them in Malaysia ? I cannot get the video to run put only have the pic
I was just testing it out for fun. The jet was enlarged. The video file was probably too large to be loaded. Well, it was showing how a normal initial blue-flamed burn turning into a large orange fireball and eventially a flamethrower. The Monitor turns up now and then here in Malaysia.