Originally Posted by
Bekologist
captain fuel making the rules about telling the people about the wide variety of fuels usable in an alcohol stove! oh, i feel so bad for saying 'paint thinner' when i meant 'denatured alcohol you purchase in the paint thinner aisle, make sure to check the label'.
limited? thats a whole lot of stuff you can burn in an alcohol cooker. wow!!! methyl, ethyl or isopropyl alcohol. man, you can find that stuff ALL OVER. You know what truly defines limiting in the stove world? BEING REQUIRED to find canisters of pressurized fuel!
Im not responsible for people understanding how to operate their stoves, dude. i suspect more than a few americans have put kerosene in their white gas stoves.
wait, can i even say 'white gas stove,' captain fuel???? Or do i have to say something about hexanes?
bwauhahahahahaha! stuart, get a grip.
You are being either overly dense or just plain asinine now. You know that by 'limited' I mean that you should restrict the use of any alcohol burning stove to those three fuels. Use of any thing outside of those fuels puts the user at risk of injury. I
have experimented with other fuels in a pop can stove. While alcohols are well behaved, 'paint thinners' like naphtha or white gas burn very hot (damaged the stove) and flared uncontrollably and dangerously. If you are going to use fuels like 'paint thinner' or gasoline, you
have to have a stove that you can control the burn rate. You know that and yet feign ignorance. Congratulations on being insulting while doing so.
Kerosene, by the way, is just fine to burn in a pressurized fuel stove. MSR's Whisperlite is designed to do so.