Better than STERNO

Right. Just don't try to put it out with a hammer.

-- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. -- Epictetus

I bought one of those years ago since my Tranglia alky burner really didn't get it.

I REALLY should have read the instructions as I set my kitchen counter on fire when testing it. No real damage since I had a fire extinguisher at the ready but it was a real chit your trousers moment.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

Larry Jaques fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

My stainless steel camping percolator. It likes a barely turnin'-over percolation rate to get good coffee AND not boil over with a full pot. That two-step knob just won't give a good rate.

LLoyd

You BOIL COFFEE, you heathen bastid? No wonder your karma is bad. A sane man does NOT perc coffee, he drips it.

I have continuously variable flame capability in mine, just like a propane torch. I just can't figure a reason to simmer anything during a power outage.

-- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. -- Epictetus

Larry Jaques fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Heh! The _best_ coffee is made cowboy style, but I can't get the wife to drink it. She doesn't like chewing on the grounds. (which is the best part).

If I could enjoy cowboy coffee, I wouldn't care about what rate the burner worked.

LLoyd

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Steve Ackman just had a heart attack hearing that, I'm sure.

-- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. -- Epictetus

Few drops of saturated salt solution will make the flame Yellow.

-- Boris

Nah... grin attack maybe.

I was just following along, being amused, tempted to point out that boiled coffee, above 5000' or so, is just fine, and that you hadn't asked Lloyd his elevation before gasping, (see my boiling temperature calculator @

Steve Ackman fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@wizard.dyndns.org:

Well, my _current_ elevation is just above sea level, but my coffee does taste better in Loveland than here.

LLoyd

WIMP!!! ;-)

What does C4/semtex look like?

I remember white cubes which were provided as the fuel for a kid's model steam engine. I never knew what they were, and no longer have the steam engine, so it does not matter -- but could something like semetex have actually been provided with a toy back in the early 1950s?

Enjoy, DoN.

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Esbit?

--Winston

Probably hexamine. High nitrogen content, lots of heat, burns clean, no ashes. Still used for fuel tablets, check ebay.

Terry fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

The tabs are kind of pricey from the usual camping/mountaineering supplies, but you can buy bags of hexamine and press your own with a homemade tabletting press (similar to a cheese press) for about $3.00 per pound. Or, it can be melted (hotter than wax) and just poured into moulds.

Hexamine is a flammable subtance, but not otherwise regulated as HazMat. We use it as a low-energy fuel in compositions that must burn cleanly and cool.

LLoyd

O.K. Not the white fuel blocks which I was remembering.

I sort of figured that you would have an answer to my question.

Thanks, DoN.

That could be it. Packaged differently since the early 1950s. :-)

Where I lived at the time I was not able to get more fuel for the steam engine. I do seem to remember that it was made in Germany, but that could be wrong.

Thanks, DoN.

Thanks! Likely correct -- and likely to be the German pre-packaged stuff from the article which I just answered (and whose name I've forgotten already. :-)

Thanks, DoN.

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Esbit, DoN. Esbit. :)

http://109.228.2.28/d.asp?product=ESBIT20X4

--Winston