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Post by tadworth on May 2, 2018 18:20:08 GMT
1. Take a large 6" food can or similar, and fill three quarters with dry sand. Add diesel, used engine oil, cooking oil, paraffin ect. ( not recommending petrol inside a boat )  2. Add a ball of newspaper, and place inside your stove, leaving top air control closed, and bottom air fully open. Light it, close the door.  3. The sand stops the liquid boiling over, and gives you a long slow burn, you should get a 100 degrees on your stove top, just enough for a background heat at this time of year. Commonly called a desert stove or a Benghazi cooker, as used by the desert armies in WWII. Used engine oil will work but adding a glug of diesel to it helps it get started. If your stove is well airtight you shouldn't notice any smell or fumes. Something to keep in mind if you get stuck without any heating fuel. |
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Post by Telemachus on May 2, 2018 19:43:52 GMT
Hmmmm, what about the smoke affecting people outside?
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2018 19:48:39 GMT
Hmmmm, what about the smoke affecting people outside? It can't be any worse than a VW group diesel engine. |
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Post by Telemachus on May 2, 2018 19:51:37 GMT
Hmmmm, what about the smoke affecting people outside? It can't be any worse than a VW group diesel engine. Well depends on what you mean by “worse”. VW Diesel engines emit NOx which is pretty much invisible and odourless. I would imagine that Tadders’ stove emits thick black smelly smoke containing partially burnt and carcinogenic hydrocarbons. Of course some people are badly affected by NOx, but everyone is badly affected by smokey burning dieselly oil. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 2, 2018 19:53:13 GMT
Hmmmm, what about the smoke affecting people outside? Can't be anywhere near as bad as the smoke from the coal I'm burning at the moment, people must think an oil refinery has just set up in rural Worcestershire. Sold to me by Tewkesbury marina too, and the only one they sell so it's not my fault if I stink out their river. |
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Post by naughtyfox on May 2, 2018 20:15:21 GMT
Hmmmm, what about the smoke affecting people outside? Grand Union Canal this evening, Tadders getting his windows washed for free:  |
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Post by Jim on May 3, 2018 6:33:36 GMT
A mechanic mate of mine rigged up a drip feed and air blower into an old stove. Uses his old engine oil. You can hardly see the black shite coming out of the flue when it's running hot.
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Post by JohnV on May 3, 2018 7:41:28 GMT
anyway why the outcry??
Tadworth only suggested it as an emergency solution ..... not as a regular heating system
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Post by phil70 on May 3, 2018 8:35:08 GMT
When we first moved aboard The Amber Rose Too the central heating pump quit and it was bloody cold, the pump was on express delivery so would arrive next day. That left me with the problem of surviving the night.
My radical solution was to vent the tumble dryer into the cabin space.....a massive fan heater and a warm me.
Phil
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Post by patty on May 3, 2018 8:45:39 GMT
When we first moved aboard The Amber Rose Too the central heating pump quit and it was bloody cold, the pump was on express delivery so would arrive next day. That left me with the problem of surviving the night. My radical solution was to vent the tumble dryer into the cabin space.....a massive fan heater and a warm me. Phil didn't u get lots of fluffy bits over you? |
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Post by peterboat on May 3, 2018 11:06:19 GMT
A mechanic mate of mine rigged up a drip feed and air blower into an old stove. Uses his old engine oil. You can hardly see the black shite coming out of the flue when it's running hot. We had a proper oil burner at the garage worked well and was very clean I would have loved a mini one on the boat  |
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Post by Jim on May 3, 2018 12:37:46 GMT
I remember using a ?salamander? To burn old engine oil, fumes went straight into the air. Water in the old oil used to explode with pops and bangs.
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Post by tadworth on May 3, 2018 15:30:38 GMT
People seem to think its fine to park their exhaust right next to my cabin doors, and run their engine all day and attempt a " final solution" to me, I'm just returning the favour.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2018 21:00:50 GMT
Another technique :
I would look around for some wood.
What sort of wood? Wooden wood.
Would be worth finding dry wood.
Would then be worth cutting the wood.
Split the wood into small parts with hatchet or other bladed instrument.
Place would in fire.
Douse with cooking oil.
Add paper.
Light paper.
Emergency heating.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2018 21:02:43 GMT
When we first moved aboard The Amber Rose Too the central heating pump quit and it was bloody cold, the pump was on express delivery so would arrive next day. That left me with the problem of surviving the night. My radical solution was to vent the tumble dryer into the cabin space.....a massive fan heater and a warm me. Phil didn't u get lots of fluffy bits over you? I clean the filter on our tumble drier regularly. I'm certain that failure to do so is what leads to tumble driers causing fires. If the vent tube is blocked the thing will overheat. |
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