Re: [pct-l] Esbit Stove

["R.J. Calliger (510.502.5552)" <calliger@infolane.com>]

At 11:07 AM -0000 11.24.99, David O wrote:
>Another stove to consider is the Esbit.
>The stove weighs maybe 3 oz. I use a cut down MSR windscreen with it.
>The Esbit fuel looks like sugar cubes wrapped in very lightweight
>packaging. An ounce of the fuel, 2 cubes, will bring a quart of water
>to a rolling boil even on snow. (With my alcohol stove I had to use
>2 to 3 times as much.) If you have any left after cooking
>you just blow it out and use the rest later. You always know exactly
>how much you have left. It doesn't require any other packaging. And
>it can legally be sent through the mail.


Do you kbnow if you can take the cubes (legally of course) on airplanes? I
suspect
not becasue they are an incidinary device.

Rich


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