Can anyone recommend a simple and inexpensive wick type hurricane lamp, with a long run time. At least 24 hours, 48 hours or longer would be better. Must be readily available, and use a standard flat wick. A fairly standard type as made by Dietz or Feurhand, but with a larger fuel reservoir.
Hi there, Is it a new one you are after? Perhaps one of the Chinese ones? Some of the older lamps had larger reservoirs too?
Fuerhand do / did one with an extended tank that I think was designed for road works as the usually have yellow or red glasses on, and they are always painted yellow. Not very common in the UK though.
A new lamp would be preferred, but a decent used one would serve. It is for frost prevention, cosmetic condition not important but must be in good working order.
The Dietz "little wizard" holds 32oz of fuel and will burn for 45 hours, I have one I use as a greenhouse heater. The build quality isn't great which causes it to leak but for the price is right
or one of those sump heaters they used to use to keep our A35's from freezing up? Before we had anti-freeze?
Or even (paraffin) poultry brooders. Though I strongly suspect you'll have to shake a lot of trees before one falls out.
There is at least one model made by DIETZ (in China nowadays) that comes with an extra large fount. I have 3 different models, build quality is not bad for a newly made wickie (somewhere around the £20-£25 mark). I don't know who imports these in the UK, both QVIST in the Netherlands and HYTTA in Germany stock them. A 'bespoke' wickie of a 'famous' brand can cost you more for even a 'leaky'.
Thanks for the suggestions. I would prefer a long burning lamp to a heater in order to allow for secondary use as a light source. The Dietz "jupiter" hurricane lantern with a claimed run time of over 70 hours would seem ideal, but I can not find a UK stockist of these.
Most of these sold in ordinary hardware shops in the UK are just awful. A tank with wick (usually round) and no air draught arrangements. They smoke, they stink and after about 4 hours use (and some extra air holes to see if any improvement possible) mine got put out for metal recycling. Good job it was very cheap. I kept the glass. It was the best bit.
I remember a few years ago the 99p shops (I think they have all gone now) were selling hurricane lamps, complete with plastic funnel and spare wick for 99p they came in black, red and yellow and they actually worked. A far cry from a Fuerhand or Chalwyn but how and where they were produced to such a low cost I hate to think.
Thanks for the link. Although not UK based, they ship affordably to the UK and I have ordered one jupiter lantern.
Perhaps an old railway signal illumination lamp would do the job. They were designed to run for eight days. They can be picked up for a reasonable sum, particularly the later BR versions.
I considered a railway signal lamp, but rejected same as I felt that the heat output would be insufficient to prevent freezing of plumbing in severe weather. My downstairs toilet is little used, and "sticks out" from the rest of house, with two external walls, and the internal walls adjoining very cold areas. Anyway, thanks to the link in a previous post I now have a Feurhand Jupiter lamp on order. Relatively large burner and big enough oil capacity to run for 72 hours.
Its a dietz jupiter. (not Feuerhand) Feuerhand had The 276 Stk70 model with 5" burner and 70h runtime. The Dietz jupiter has 10" burner and 75h runtime.
You may be surprised at how little heat is required to keep an enclosed area frost free, especially if the area (room) is relatively draught free. Although retired now, I remember when at work, all that was needed to prevent the hosepipe freezing in its little uninsulated hut was a road lamp like one of these After some guidance / advice
That reminds me of the small toilet block at a former workplace, a homemade but quite functional arrangement utilising a 'Luton' body as the shell... Everything worked fine until the first bad winter (early '90s) and a good freeze-up.. So the boss installed one of the old Valor type heaters and we were told to "keep an eye on't " to make sure it didn't go out. Well, it did go out and fairly regularly as not being the most spacious of rooms and having a new hot and smelly companion to shuffle around it would get knocked and set off the automatic stop mechanism (to much 'effing and blinding)... Then there would be recriminations when the said boss visited the throne room and found things weren't as they should have been .. Who was last in the bog??? Rant / Rave !!***!! :-)
If your looking for heat this may be an option. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apollo-Sin...ywords=paraffin+heater&qid=1610232456&sr=8-11
