Beiträge von Eric R

Thank you all for your help. I very much appreciate it, and wish that all forum boards were as friendly and helpful as this is.

Thanks for the help so far. Another couple of questions please. First, are paraffin oil and kerosene totally interchangeable? As I said, I have an old Tilley (that works) which I intend to keep for when I go rallying a 60 year old truck that I own, but I want to buy another pressure lamp for use on my boat. So if I buy a Petromax, can I use paraffin oil in the petromax, or if I must buy kerosene for the petromax, can I then use the kerosene in the Tilley. (I had thought kerosene is another name for paraffin oil, but I see the Pelam price list distinguishes between paraffin - for use on wick lamps, and kerosene - for pressure lamps, but I prefer to ask than blow my lamps up!).

Thanks. When you say "petrol in the tank" do you mean the rapid burner operates from the paraffin or kerosene which is used to fuel the lamp (unlike the Tilley which has an external burner that is soaked in methylated spirit which is then ignited to act as a pre-burner).

Currently I have an old Tilley lamp (that lights with the meths pre-burner). I am considering buying a new Petromax, which appears to use a different form of pre-burner to light. Is this so? What is the main difference between the Tilley method and the Petromax method, and do they both use meths?