Where the hell can I just walk in and buy a gallon of parraf

[Alex_B]

As above, (but PARAFFIN) just want to walk in with a can and get a gallon for chain cleaning and so on.

Local garages, nope.

I searched Halfrauds and nowt comes up so...?

Cheers
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[kingsmith]

b&q got some last week about £6.50..
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[RPM]

Hi

As said, B&Q or other DIY specialists. I usually buy it from the local Garden centre.

All the best
Mike

[rob c]

petrol station in plastic containers.
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[neil.]

Homebase sell it as 'Parasene' lamp fuel.

[truslack]

Booths sell it for about £6
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[Snodvan]

Three garages nearest to me sell paraffin - 4 litre plastic bottles. They keep it outside in a locked cage affair together with bags of charcoal/ coal/ firewood and later in the year gas bottles..

Snod
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[kestrel]

Just use heating oil which is 28 sec kerosene, same stuff as paraffin?
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[doggone]

Diesel works much the same.

[dansidi]

I was looking just last week for exactly the same thing. I considered Halfords and Homebase but happened to be passing my local hardware shop and thought I'd try my luck. Ok, it was £7.00 for a big plastic bottle but I always try and support my local trades rather than the faceless mega-chains.

It cleans up your chain and sprockets a treat. Do try to keep it out of your drum brake if you're lucky enough to have one of those...
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[andym]

last time I tried to buy parafin from homebase one of the guys in there told me to just use white spirit... and I have been using it ever since and never had a problem

[Alex_B]

B&Q.
Shoulda thought of that.

Thanks gents. I'll pick it up today.
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[MattEMulsion]

Try an old fashioned little hardware store, some of those still sell paraffin 'loose'.
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[Ichy]

The majority of petrol stations in my area stock it in the shop.
How about a garden center?
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[whitedevil]

local Garden centre, i was lucky last time i went it was on offer @ £4 a gallon
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[kestrel]

Paraffin is the UK name for Kerosene. Central heating oil is 28 sec Kerosene, also known as Industrial Paraffin. If you have oil central heating then just dip some from your tank, at current price of around 70p a litre it's much cheaper than buying the same stuff at a hardware shop.
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[jimspeed]

We sell it from a bulk tank via a fuel pump if anyone local ever needs any?(Ludlow shropshire) just turn up with your own container and we will fill it..
think its 70p/L at the mo..

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