Re: [Paddlewise] Carrying Stoves

Dave Kruger wrote:

> Wes, have you tried hardware stores for denatured alcohol?  Lab grade stuff is
> in the vicinity of $20/gallon, so hardware store grades should be half of that,
> and should burn well enough in a Trangia.  In Oregon, we can buy 190 proof
> grain alcohol for about 8-10 dollars a fifth.  Nice if you use it for fuel,
> because when life is boring, you can make margaritas with the stove fuel!  <g>
> <do not try this -- am kidding?>
>

Dave;
Here in the great NorthEast that 190 proof grain alcohol is called Everclear.  Not
always easy to find, but I hear that as well as drink it some mechanics use it to
clean carburetors.  I think that a stove fuel is a better use!

Mike

--
    Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are
visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great
blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a
mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your
passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space.
Mark H Hunt


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