Hi,
I'm looking to get some Paraffin for cleaning my engine.
I was wonder where is the best place to get it, where do you guys get yours from?
Thanks,
David

Some petrol stations, Esso and Morrison, some camping shops and if you can find any the old fashioned ironmongers. Failing that use diesel or white spirit from B&Q. Mr Muscle oven cleaner is good for the baked on oil (no I am not kidding!) and the old angle grinder wire brush is pretty useful too! I then used hammerite red rustproof undercoat followed by smoothrite and have a very nice finish.

Good luck and watch you don't get tennis elbow with all the scrubbing!

Caber

Focus do it...with the parrafin heaters in the Gardening section.
there is a store 2.64 miles from Rayleigh
http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/page/map
[Edited on 13/7/07 by meany]

[Edited on 13/7/07 by meany]

I found the best thing to be patio cleaner, fling it on and watch it fizzle...... You just have to watch ali as once the rubbish has gone it moves on.

B&Q have it in the gardenning section for greenhouse heaters. Not vey cheap thogh, may be better off getting some kerisene (excuse my spelling)

Kerosene ie domestic house heating oil. About 35p/L

Heating oil is a bit on the heavy side for degreasing IMO. I use celly thinners for the really hard to shift stuff, and follow up with a normal washable degreaser like gunk.

Looked for some for ages. Finally found it on my doorstep - on Sainsbury's Garage forecourt

Lots of choices.

Thanks for the advice,

Shell also sell it in the charcoal/firelighter/BBQ box things they usually have outside.

All really expensive though apart from heatiing oil.

We used to have kerosene/paraffin in bulk at the steelmill for washing mill housing bearings out etc, but I don't work there now and its shut down like all the rest!

used to buy it at 15p a litre from there 3 years ago, in 50 litres at a time.

I guess a friendly heating oil supplier will stock paraffin in bulk and would fill a couple of 25 litre drums for you for cash.