At 1:49 PM -0500 3/7/00, Michael R Noyes wrote: >The reason for this is that alcohol, being water soluble, is the >only liquid fuel >that can be put out by water. Since most boats have lots of water >available when >in use it is the safest liquid fuel for the stoves in a boat. Hey, another good reason to use a Trangia. When I'm sick of cooking, I'll just throw it in the lake to put it out. As for making an alcohol stove. Trangia has a patented design that allows it to "jet" once it has heated up. I don't think that you could get this kind of heat with a tin can style stove with ventilation holes. It would probably be like trying to cook with sterno. As for the soot problems. If you use good stove fuel, this isn't a problem. Best of all, when you use alcohol, no smell if you spill any of the fuel on yourself, clothes, neighbors, whatever. Haven't we already had this thread before? -Patrick *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Mar 07 2000 - 12:02:03 PST
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