Bacon2002
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 05:37 PM |
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Paraffin - Where to get it?
Hi,
I'm looking to get some Paraffin for cleaning my engine.
I was wonder where is the best place to get it, where do you guys get yours from?
Thanks,
David
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caber
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 05:49 PM |
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Some petrol stations, Esso and Morrison, some camping shops and if you can find any the old fashioned ironmongers. Failing that use diesel or white
spirit from B&Q. Mr Muscle oven cleaner is good for the baked on oil (no I am not kidding!) and the old angle grinder wire brush is pretty useful
too! I then used hammerite red rustproof undercoat followed by smoothrite and have a very nice finish.
Good luck and watch you don't get tennis elbow with all the scrubbing!
Caber 
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meany
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 06:07 PM |
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Focus do it...with the parrafin heaters in the Gardening section.
there is a store 2.64 miles from Rayleigh
http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/page/map
[Edited on 13/7/07 by meany]
[Edited on 13/7/07 by meany]
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mark chandler
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 06:26 PM |
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I found the best thing to be patio cleaner, fling it on and watch it fizzle...... You just have to watch ali as once the rubbish has gone it moves on.
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coozer
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 06:51 PM |
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B&Q have it in the gardenning section for greenhouse heaters. Not vey cheap thogh, may be better off getting some kerisene (excuse my spelling)
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1980 Z750
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big_wasa
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 07:53 PM |
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Kerosene ie domestic house heating oil. About 35p/L 
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 08:24 PM |
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Heating oil is a bit on the heavy side for degreasing IMO. I use celly thinners for the really hard to shift stuff, and follow up with a normal
washable degreaser like gunk.
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Macbeast
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 08:35 PM |
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Looked for some for ages. Finally found it on my doorstep - on Sainsbury's Garage forecourt
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Bacon2002
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 08:53 PM |
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Lots of choices.
Thanks for the advice,
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Fatboy Dave
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| posted on 14/7/07 at 02:33 PM |
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Shell also sell it in the charcoal/firelighter/BBQ box things they usually have outside.
Dave
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NS Dev
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| posted on 15/7/07 at 10:38 AM |
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All really expensive though apart from heatiing oil.
We used to have kerosene/paraffin in bulk at the steelmill for washing mill housing bearings out etc, but I don't work there now and its shut
down like all the rest!
used to buy it at 15p a litre from there 3 years ago, in 50 litres at a time.
I guess a friendly heating oil supplier will stock paraffin in bulk and would fill a couple of 25 litre drums for you for cash.
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