[pct-l] Burning HEET

[Eugene Leafty]

Carbon deposits may be a tip off.  If it's leaving any kind of deposits,
then something must not be leaving as CO2.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Miller

> is there a way to tell?   
> 
> ... i bing it up because i have noticed when playing with
> alcohol stoves people 
> often remark on the distinct smell...  i actually
> don't think it's fom the 
> alcohol, but perhaps a give off from the tin cans?

CO is odorless, as is CO2, so you really wouldn't be able to tell that way.
Any smells would be from additives, not from CO or CO2.  If your stove is
make from an Al can, you might be smelling either the paint on the can's OD
or the coating that's on the ID as the can gets hot while the fuel is
burning.

-Nate the Trail Zombie



      
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