[pct-l] Canister stoves

[StoneDancer1 at aol.com (StoneDancer1@aol.com)]

Having been raised with a Primus, and switching to MSR years ago ( I used  
Esbit on the PCT), I know virtually nothing about canister stoves.  In  looking 
into the literature, I found a lot of people saying they found "half  full" 
canisters in hiker boxes here and there... and, in fact, I saw some  myself.  My 
Question:  Does that mean that you can screw the canister  off when dinner is 
done and simply store everything away?  I assumed  it involved some 
puncturing thing that makes this impossible.  (Santa Hiker  put a Giga Power Ti in my 
stocking, and what instructions there are, are in  heiroglyphics, sanskrit, and 
cuneiform.)  

"No Way Ray"  Echols