Alternate lighting and heating

[nickdutch]

You can put anything in it really - hexi blocks, oil burner, twigs/paper....

Sounds no different to a home made wood gas stove to me.
However much more practical and portable.

[itsybitsy]

wind up lanterns, 000s of candles and tealights, gas camping stove, charcoal bbq outside.

Working towards getting a nice calor gas heater that looks like a wood burner, for the dining area.
Pretty, yet functional.

[Ian]

I have one of these:



A Rippingilles parlour stove made about 1890. It runs on paraffin and has two huge wicks some six inches long. I have never seen another.



It is possible to cook on it when the top is removed:



Have a Google around for Rippingilles stoves. Known as bombproof and the preferred stove for use in boats and caravans for decades before gas was available.

[diamond lil]

Does it work? can you get parts and wicks?

[Ian]

Yes and yes, our old friends Base-camp has the wick.

Ripingilles is mentioned in 'The Riddle of the Sands' for those of you who like thrillers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddle_of_the_Sands

The book might have caused the First World War, or helped anyway.

[diamond lil]

I read and liked it, but cant remember a stove

[Technik]

You can put anything in it really - hexi blocks, oil burner, twigs/paper....

Sounds no different to a home made wood gas stove to me.
However much more practical and portable.

Yes, but much smaller as you can see on the picture (the bottle is a 1 litre one if I remember correctly) although you wouldn't be able to put any logs in it, it's just too small for that, twigs yes.

[Brambles]

So the banks have tumbled and there are no more headlines to read as we can't buy newspapers and the leccy is cut off due to no money to pay for it.

So what have you got in your preps to deal with a source of heat and light?

A bit of light and a bit of heat from this one.

It started like this, but didn't look good for in the house.

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So with a bit of work it looked like this.

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And this little heater will boil the kettle as well.

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I've got the very same. I'm in the process of "doing up" the heater. It had been stored in a shed and there's a bit of rust on the cage and the wick got damp, so a new one is on order as is a new Mica window.
During the energy crisis in the 70's mum cooked dinner on one of them and boiled kettles galore!
I've also got a hexi stove and once I get everything else finished, I want to make a Rocket stove.