At 01:10 AM 3/5/00 -0800, Tina wrote: >once had fuel in it! That doesn't leave alot of options. Does the Trangia >have a separate alcohol bottle that one fills for use? Can you discard the >emptied alcohol bottle before flying? I'll check it out for future trips, There's no fuel tank, just a burner that you fill with each use. I use 190 proof denatured alcohol that I get at the drug store. I figure that if it's in your gear, labeled as such, if anyone asks it's rubbing alcohol, which it is. BTW, if you get a Trangia, use the best alcohol you can get. The good denatured stuff is fine. Avoid the cheaper isopropyl alcohol; it blackens pots badly. The drug store stuff is a little on the expensive side, but I don't use a lot -- a little over a pint for a week on Isle Royale last year. The nice thing about alcohol stoves in general is that fuel of some nature is easily available almost anywhere. White gas is rare outside North America, and some of the bottled gas stoves used for backpacking have fuel bottles that are hard to find anywhere. -- Wes -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 05 2000 - 15:45:29 PST
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