Blowlamps... Does someone know?

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  1. plantpot United Kingdom

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    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
     
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    @JEFF JOHNSON Thanks for sharing the link. I have a couple of blowlamps in my fettle queue.
    Cheers
    Pete
     
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    You are both welcome.
     
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    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
     
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    Blowlamp restoration and collection is very popular.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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::
     
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    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.
     
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    This short video shows my Monitor not working correctly a couple of years back:-
    20170809_235046_1.gif
     
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    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 ? :-s I cannot get the video to run put only have the pic :thumbdown:
     
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    @plantpot .. Or you could try here? www.blowlampsociety.com

    regards,
    pb
     
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    :lol: 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.
     

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