[pct-l] Alcohol Stove Fuel

[C. Hansen]

I've been experimenting by building alcohol stoves as well.  I've also noticed a substantially more yellow flame when using denatured alcohol instead of HEET in the same stoves.  But I'm having so much fun, I'm going to keep messing around... try to see if the size of the jet holes can mellow out the yellow.
A little more than halfway down this page ( http://zenstoves.net/Stoves.htm#Fuels ) typical alcohol stove fuels are described.  You can see the difference between the HEET and denatured alcohol.  It's worth a look see.
C.Hansen




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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:57:56 -0500
From: "Pat" <krozby at zoominternet.net>
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>I have a "White Box"alcohol stove,that works great on the yellow
> "Heet".However when I tried a hardware store, and bought some "Sunny Side"
> denatured alcohol solvent;that claims to be alcohol stove fuel, and marine
> stove fuel,the first few times it worked fine,but after that,it worked 
> only
> with a yellow smoky flame.
>    Are there similar experiences out there...?


The yellow heet seems to work better than the denatured, Im gonna drink some 
of that Heinekins sunday and make me one of those penny stoves. 



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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:16:33 -0700
From: Scott Bryce <sbryce at scottbryce.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] "Alcohol stove fuel"
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larry tedrick wrote:
> I have a "White Box"alcohol stove,that works great on the yellow 
> "Heet".However when I tried a hardware store, and bought some "Sunny
> Side" denatured alcohol solvent;that claims to be alcohol stove fuel,
> and marine stove fuel,the first few times it worked fine,but after
> that,it worked only with a yellow smoky flame.

The only time  have seen a yellow smoky flame come from an alcohol stove
was the one time I tried burning white gas in a cat stove just to see
what would happen. (DON'T try this with a pressurizing alcohol stove!)