Presuming the airlines permit transport of your gas burning stove, after it has been thoroughly emptied and cleaned, what fuel will be available upon arrival? White gas is ideal but as most of us have discovered, it is not always available, especially in international travel. While kerosene is the widely advocated alternative to white gas in many camp stoves we discovered it was not readily available in the Bahamas at the venues accessible to us. We searched for alternatives and finally in desperation took a couple of quarts of pump unleaded. A workable choice in our Whisperlite but by no means the best. After the fact, we took up the problem with MSR and obtained some interesting recommendations. First, we should have taken our MSR GK II (or a Dragonfly) for best multi-fuel applications, or the Whisperlite International 600 if kerosene was available. Second, avoid pump gas at all costs. The MSR folks were full of horror stories of corroded stoves that had only short sessions of use with pump fuels. Third, read the fine print. I learned that "paint thinner" would have been a ideal substitute if it were comprised of 100% stoddard solvent (not the cheaper variants containing turpentine). Paint thinner of high quality was available but in ignorance I passed it by. Stoddard solvent is the same "cleaning solvent" used at dry cleaners so if a cleaning establishment has some *unused* still clean fluid to sell, that would work too. Every trip, another lesson. Rich Mitchell *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 07 1999 - 03:03:15 PST
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