Alternate lighting and heating

[hobo]

Has anyone been using one of these?



I picked one up a few years back to use with the huge stash of Hexamine fuel I have amassed.

What the heck?

[the-gnole]

Swiss army "Volcano stove"

[nickdutch]

I have a little wicked oil lamp. I got it in oxfam. It is pantomime Aladdin style, with a spout out the side where the wick goes. It is made of brass and cost me squat. Ok, where the spout joins the pot leaks a little, but not too much. The flame that comes off it is fantastic.

Now I just need to think about one of them red hot sexy paraffin heaters for indoors in case the temperature goes to sh@t and the power goes south.

Too many prep ideas and too little MONEY !!!

Double drat!!

[the-gnole]

Nick, you can go for the ultra modern new ones

http://www.householdinnovations.co.uk/s ... 7_158.html

Or try your local house-clearance warehouse and local rag for household items.

[nickdutch]

Nick, you can go for the ultra modern new ones

http://www.householdinnovations.co.uk/s ... 7_158.html

Or try your local house-clearance warehouse and local rag for household items.

They look very nice indeed, but getting the money together might be a strain.

[the-gnole]

Nick, you can go for the ultra modern new ones

http://www.householdinnovations.co.uk/s ... 7_158.html

Or try your local house-clearance warehouse and local rag for household items.

They look very nice indeed, but getting the money together might be a strain.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from= ... Categories

[jansman]

To keep warm we will just do what we do all Winter,every Winter. Light the woodstoves. They are our primary heat-source anyway. We sling a kettle or stewpan on the big one too.
For lights and general power I'll just fire the honda site generator up. My Brother wasnt kidding when he said it was big!I built a housing and exhaust baffle and stored juice and oil.

We have LED lanterns(my preferred back-up)as they are ultra reliable. I worry there will be many stupid people doing stupid things with candles. Like my neighbour to whom we are joined. I think worst-case I will give them an LED for safety.

Cooking,well...The woodstoves(And for those there is stored fuel for an estimated 3yrs. Always adding. Camping stoves and LOTS of gas,trangia and LOTS of meths. And then my favourite,the Kelly Kettle. Simple effective water boiling.
Regarding cooking though,if the worst happened I would just build a campfire arrangement in the yard and use that. No special pans or that mullarkey-Jan has a kitchen full of em. All of the above is only stuff. Just work with what you have.

[diamond lil]

Agree totally Jansman, that sounds an ideal setup. I read something interesting in another forum where people were all talking about the old days. A couple of people remembered their grannies had a biggish flat stone, it was built into the chimney but sticking out over the fire. This was called a hob ! I have never heard of this before but it sounds the kind of thing I love. Simple, old fashioned, and perfect. You could leave a kettle or a stewpot on there all day. Wish we hadnt lost our commonsense when we got "modern" conveniences!

[the-gnole]

Well,

We could fire up the genny, but in a terrace it could be a bit of a nuisance, We could use the battery lanterns, we could use the headlamps or the recently aquired bullfinch gas lantern as well as the Gaz international gas lanterns.

For heat we can have the gas fires going, the gas cooker will put out some heat as well and we could put the gas kettle on there to boil kettles and cook food as it is a dual fuel cooker and we can run off bottles or the mains, only the oven is needing electric, but we don't need to oven cook short term.

We could also crack open the petrol pressure cookers, or the double burner Gaz international stoves, or the brief-case cannister stoves, and of course the often favoured kelly kettles..

The thousand or so candles we will keep in reserve for when everything else has run out of fuel sources.

I do love it when the back-ups have back-ups

[Technik]

Has anyone been using one of these?



I picked one up a few years back to use with the huge stash of Hexamine fuel I have amassed.

Yes, I have 2. The bottles are not that good but the rest is fantastic - you can fire it with anything and boiles water in the cup in a couple minutes. Love it.