Re: [Paddlewise] Carrying Stoves

At 11:09 AM 3/7/00 EST, Gypsykayak_at_aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 03/04/2000 9:07:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>boydwe_at_dmci.net writes:
>
><< Like Sandy, I'm sold on my alcohol-burning Trangia. I have a Trangia 28
> (Mini-Trangia) that works very well for what I want it to do.  >>
>
>Now, I'll have to dig it out, Wes.  Where have you taken it, 

Virtually everywhere I've camped in the last ten years. Mostly northern
Michigan, three season. Several kayak, car, backpack and canoe trips.

>and did you have 
>any trouble finding the denatured alcohol?  I don't suppose campgrounds in 
>the US (I favor KOA when solo traveling) stock it in their mini-stores.  They

I usually buy my denatured alcohol at the drug store. It's more expensive
that way, but I don't use big amounts, and the pint bottle is around the
right size.
Other sources include paint stores, auto parts stores (drygas, which you're
probably not going to find in Florida), marine stores like West Marine
(many cruising boats use alcohol stoves) and many other places. You can
burn harder booze -- say, over 150 or 160 proof -- an earlier message in
this thread mentioned Everclear . . .
 >
>What is denatured alcohol anyway?  Why won't isopropyl alcohol (available at 
>any drugstore work).  And please don't get too scientific on my you
techies!  

Bascially, denatured alcohol is plain old booze alcohol that has had a
poison added so you can't drink it and have to pay tax on drinkables.
Isopropyl will work but it blackens pots.

One of the things that hasn't been mentioned in this thread about alcohol
stoves is the fact that they're utterly quiet when they burn. There's one
of the hissing roar you get with gas stoves. I frankly like the peace and
quiet.

-- Wes

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