@Sammi Jane Well no, it never was oil fuelled. The clue was in the title and the sound on the videos was unlike that of any oil (wick) or electric conversion ever made. Butane, a Veritas product. I guess their deception must still work.
What I meant was a conversion of a lamp that wasn't electric to electric just because they could.! I think that your lamps look wonderful.
Ah, right. Yes, I think that’s a given pet hate for those frequenting CPL and CCS (stoves too get the treatment). Also, ‘upcycling’ of a stove or paraffin blowlamp to make a lamp plumbs the depths of naffness in my opinion. ‘Degrading’ I prefer to call it.
Hopefully there's a special place in Hell reserved for the perpetrators of these sorts of conversion!! What about converting a paraffin blowlamp to make a paraffin stove, John? I have one which I obtained from eBay because it looked well-done. Ultimately, although it does work, it's pretty useless because the tank is too small to allow it to run for a decent length of time. It does have more stamina than a Primus 96 so it ain't all bad...
I don’t recoil from that concept David. A Hurlock is part-way to becoming the conversion in reverse anyway.
There's nowt wrong with that type of conversion, you're still using paraffin as a fuel source. That reminds me, we should really get a paraffin stove to use for cooking in case of a prolonged power cut. Not that we've had one longer that half an hour in all the time I've lived here, (30 years) any recommendations.?
A 2-pint capacity fixed-leg stove equipped with a ‘silent’ burner is a safe bet. British manufacturers including Monitor, Parasene, Valor made one. Primus and Optimus had their ‘No.5’ model equivalent.
