Okay, I know what Propane is, C3H8
and I know what Methanol is, CH3OH

What's Alcohol?



"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:10:53 -0700, Gordon wrote:

Also, alcohol doesn't have the BTU's of propane.

Propane weighs 4 lb/gal alcohol 5,8lb/gal. BTU/lb are something like
18k for propane v. 12 k for alcohol. 9,5k for methanol. My car burns
that, but I don't have an alcohol stove. I do have a one burner primus
stove that burns kerosene.

Casady

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:49:09 -0400, "BF" wrote:

Okay, I know what Propane is, C3H8
and I know what Methanol is, CH3OH

What's Alcohol?

Just one more carbon: C2H5OH is ethanol.

Casady

"BF" wrote:

Okay, I know what Propane is, C3H8
and I know what Methanol is, CH3OH

What's Alcohol?

Intoxicating?

Lew

On Oct 9, 6:15 pm, "Lew Hodgett" wrote:
"BF" wrote:
Okay, I know what Propane is, C3H8
and I know what Methanol is, CH3OH

What's Alcohol?

Intoxicating?

Lew

Pressurized alchohol stoves are about the most dangerous thing I have
ever seen on boats. Unpressurized is supposed to be better. When I
got my boat, I gutted the old Origo pressurized stove and now I drop
cans of sterno down the burner wells to heat coffee. I keep thinking
about making an unpressurized drop-in replacement for the old
pressurized burners but by now ther prob are not enough of these old
units for it to sell well.
You can find designs for unpressurized home-made alchohol stoves for
backpacking. One is made from a coke can and some fiberglass
insulation and I think you could adapt this concept to your burner
wells.

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:34:55 -0700, Frogwatch
wrote:

Pressurized alchohol stoves are about the most dangerous thing I have
ever seen on boats.

The most dangerous thing I have seen on a boat were these little waxed
paper sticks that had 'dangerous' right on the label. Fishing tackle
my buddy called them. Fifty percent nitroglycerine they were, and in
use they were pretty noisy.

Casady