[pct-l] SCAQMD Rule 1143 & Denatured Alcohol Question

[Donna Saufley]

Question:  does anyone know what are the VOCs g/l for esbits, trioxane, and
fuel canisters (like snow peak or msr) are?  The rule threshold is max VOC
25 g/l.  

LR

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From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of CHUCK CHELIN
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 8:58 AM
To: Mike Schaeffer
Cc: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes; pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] SCAQMD Rule 1143 & Denatured Alcohol Question

Good morning, Mike,

On the occasions that I eat hot food I use either a cat food can stove or a
pop can stove for its "multi-fuel" option.  With solid fuel I turn the stove
over and put the chunk on its bottom.  Doing so provides the correct spacing
of the fuel from the bottom of the pot, and it gets plenty of air.  I tried
putting the solid fuel in the right-side-up stove and it didn't work well.

I use Esbet only for comparison testing.  Much superior, in my opinion, is
Army surplus trioxane fuel.  It seems to provide functionally the same
heat/ounce, it's much expensive, and it leaves little or no residue on the
pot.

Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT - 1965

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On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Mike Schaeffer
<chiefrat2006 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Esbit may be a good alternative to denatured alcohol.  Has anyone tried it
> with
> a cat food can stove?
>
> Mike Schaeffer
> AT '78
> PCT '11
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 9:51:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] SCAQMD Rule 1143 & Denatured Alcohol Question
>
> Esbit.
>
> On Apr 2, 2011, at 6:55 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
> > Survey type Question,
> >
> > If, in time HEET became unavailable... Would you be more likely to
> > use a
> > canister,  or would you try stoveless?
>
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