[pct-l] Re: [pct-l-digest V1 #925]

[Jim Mayer <JamesLMayer@netscape.net>]

Ron,

All the tests I did were with cold tap water and denatured alcohol.  As you
know, denatured alcohol is ethanol spiked with enough nasty stuff to make it
undrinkable.  I find it in hardware stores labeled, variously, as "denatured
alcohol," "shellac thinner" and "alcohol stove fuel."  Alcohol stoves have
been used extensively (exclusively?) in boats for years.

-- Jim

> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:13:09 -0800 
> From: Ronald Moak <ronm@fallingwater.com>
> Subject: RE: [pct-l] Nifty Stove
> 
> I'd like to thank everyone for their ideas and suggestions on the stove.
> Over the next few weeks I'll be looking into them. I'm pretty happy with
the
> stoves performance with the Esbit fuel. In my limited test, it performs
> better than the Esbit stove in similar setups. 
> 
> I was able to shave a couple of minutes off the boil time for the alcohol
> burner. However, I'm not sure what target I'm aiming for. In all the pages
> for other alcohol stoves, boil times were approximately 5 minutes for 2
> pints of room temperature water. What exactly is room temperature? In my
> test the starting and ending water temps were 60 and 220 degrees
> respectively. I was using good old tap water.
> 
> Even as it is, I'm still able to cook a Lipton's meal on a single teaspoon
> of fuel. At less than a quarter ounce that's not half bad.
> 
> Obviously the starting temperature of the water is a factor in boil times.
> Also I'd like to know what type of alcohol was use in the 5 minute test.
The
> alcohol I used was the brand in the web picture. I do know that different
> forms of alcohol have different burning properties. I recall a page that
had
> the relative burn times for the different types of alcohol listed.
Somewhere
> along the line I've lost my bookmark.
> 
> Roy wanted to know more about my initial stove meltdown.  Well that was due
> to ignoring the KISS principle from the beginning. I started by make the
> stove too complex with an attached windscreen / pot holder that was
attached
> to the main stove via some struts. There were also a few screws in the
wrong
> places that punctured the main fuel burner - I'm referring to screws in the
> stove that is, my own loose screws are another matter. Needless to say I
had
> quite a mess. 
> 
> In the mean time, I'm waiting on some fabrics for a few sewing projects to
> be completed first. If I make any further break enhancements I'll let you
> know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron "Fallingwater" Moak


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