14-08-2020, 05:21 AM
Thanks Tony
For decades here white spirit was the very evaparative product widely used for plumbers irons (horizontal tpe) and campstoves. Quirte dangerosu to use as the fumes spread and ignite from yards away . During WW2 my plumber father used to add to the Austin (rationing was about 2 gals a month) Along with petrol donated by friends enabled his honeymoon trip 150 mile radius. There seems to be a lot in modern paint to give the near unmanageable rapid dry (I doubt if the chemists actually try their product; the assumption is that none today will attempt a glass finish with a brush on say a door). Turps was/is much less evaporative. It seems that the moderately refined mineral turps may have been phased out in UK.
Incidentally if anyone has no other use for a gas cyl a plumbers iron on petrol is much cheaper to run. For heavy soldering and serious heating.
For decades here white spirit was the very evaparative product widely used for plumbers irons (horizontal tpe) and campstoves. Quirte dangerosu to use as the fumes spread and ignite from yards away . During WW2 my plumber father used to add to the Austin (rationing was about 2 gals a month) Along with petrol donated by friends enabled his honeymoon trip 150 mile radius. There seems to be a lot in modern paint to give the near unmanageable rapid dry (I doubt if the chemists actually try their product; the assumption is that none today will attempt a glass finish with a brush on say a door). Turps was/is much less evaporative. It seems that the moderately refined mineral turps may have been phased out in UK.
Incidentally if anyone has no other use for a gas cyl a plumbers iron on petrol is much cheaper to run. For heavy soldering and serious heating.