MAPP Gas

[Masterchief]

And is ability to fire a cadburys cream egg 50m from white PVC pipe

[Venger]

[ambientskies]

Rothenberger super-fire 3 with adjustable Swirl-flame & Pin-Point heads is a great choice for those with big pockets of cash

MAPP or Propane goes "POP"

If you need more than a 2000c flame to light cotton, then choose MAPP gas, it's your money to burn...

9am, I'm about due my medication, which burns yellow & scarlet, then rainbows in my mind

[Chalgravesteve]

Gibbs & Dandy in Luton.....was in there yesterday......3 for £25 yellow ones....
3 for £16 black propane ones.......

Tel: 01582 798798
Fax: 01582798799
e-mail: luton@gibbsanddandy.com

they don't have an online store, if you go in, you have to go to a counter and ask for what you want and they write it on a piece of paper, disappear into the shelving system for 5 mins and come back with what you want.....it is like a mad, modern day Two Ronnies 4 candles sketch world. The bloke on the plumbing section is particularly geeky....looks like he is still living in the 1940's, never refers to the computer...which looks like an early amstrad,....just wanders off and comes back with whichever really obscure bit of plumbing you might have asked for.....

....the gas is on special offer on the shelves right behind him.......so he probably won't know it is there!!!

[Andy_P]

Love those shops.

There's a tool shop near my old work like that, never known to fail, and would sell (or usually give) you just one screw if you needed it.

But if you wanted something, the game was that you had to spend an hour trying to think of absolutely every possible variable, so you could ask for the exact thing (male, left-hand, high speed, inverted, etc.)

... and they would ALWAYS smile sweetly and trump you with something like "Brass or chrome?"

[Chalgravesteve]

......ah but I did forget to point out that this place is the size of a decent sized B&Q!!! It would be quicker to memorise the entire contents of wikipedia than to try and understand what they hold in stock......there are no overweight staff there.....because they must walk miles each day.......the guy on plumbing....you ask him for something.....let him go get it......then ask him for something else...off he goes........and again....and again....it becomes a challenge to see how many individual items you can get before he asks you if there is anything else BEFORE he toddles off to get it..........especially high marks are awarded if you can ask for a compression joint.......and then ask for the locking nut or olive to fit it as soon as he brings it back!! Endless hours of fun......

When you go in, you have to take a laminated number card and wait in line.....they have not heard of electronic numbering systems yet....at least not at the plumbing counter, although they sell them from the electrical section......if you want plumbing and electrics you have to queue at both counters...you can't just buy it all from one!!!

[Charleso]

Gibs and Dandy brings back some memories...

I've had a few bits and pieces of Tools4Trade now and they seem an ok bunch.