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  1. J

    Old petrol blowlamps

    Having a sort out at the back of my garage I came across two of my old blowlamps a Max Sievert and a Monitor, stripped them down and gave them a clean up, filled them with petrol and lo and behold both in perfect working condition. I bought the Max Sievert when I was 19 so that makes it 51 years...
  2. J

    New boy to the forum

    Sorry guys, but I am strictly Joe Davis and burnt my fingers many a time wiping a joint, and still got my old petrol Max Sievert blowlamp that I bought all of 51 years ago and still working even on unleaded, gotta be a collectors piece.
  3. P

    Bernzomatic load of absolute rubbish!

    ...the time, as a fitter of 30 years i started with the old bullfinch flame throwers and my father had and i still keep the origional parrafin sieverts, the bernzo is a bit of a toy and has a small nozzle, most pro s use a rothenberger(sieg hiel) superfire 2 in the right mitts these perform very...
  4. D

    Fitting a Radiator

    Malcolm you are a credit to our trade. Unlike these daft f4cking ladies that are playing at it!!
  5. M

    Fitting a Radiator

    Yep, thats it 69 in september and don't look a day older than 30 and still working, albeit part time. When I die I will be melted down for scrap :lol:
  6. clf-gas

    Fitting a Radiator

    Errrrrrrr 50year owd, and you must be, erm,,,,,, 69. Now urry up wiv me toffy apple :wink:
  7. M

    Fitting a Radiator

    I was rooting about in the loft of my garage the other day and what did I find? My old Max Sievert petrol blowlamp. I bought it with my 19th birthday money, a toffee apple to anyone who can guess how old it is? I wondered if it would work using todays unleaded petrol, I stripped it down and...
  8. L

    I disagree with einstein..

    ...Collider beam". This is a very bad thing, because humans in the path of this ray would receive a dose of ionising radiation of 10,000 sieverts, and as Bones McCoy would doubtless confirm, the lethal dose is 6 sieverts. The result? Death in one second. The spacecraft's structure would...
  9. T

    Gas fired smelting furnace

    ...http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/oliverburner1.html I made a setup capable of producing castings in aluminium and brass just using a Sievert propane blowtorch with a large burner. I forget the rating of the burner now, but it is about 1-1/2" diameter. A simple stand with a 'U' clip...
  10. H

    What's the best professional "blow lamp"?

    I personally think soldering is done easier from a bottle with a tube and torch at the end rather than holding a cylinder (roth etc ) there is a make called Sievert who do various options and sizes that can be got from a company called Lister via the web cheers
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