I love the smell of napalm at Home Depot

It's been around since 1900 in the form of Sterno, but since you mention "bottles" I'm guessing it's more like the starter fluid used for starting pellet stoves... also not new to Home Depot. They've been selling it at least as long as they've been selling pellet stoves.

speaking of fuel, every gallon can of kerosene at the home depot by me was rusted out and leaking. the pallet looks like it was dredged from the bottom of a river.

There's also this other obnoxious trend of packaing small fasteners (say

I'm waiting for the 5 pack of batteries at the counters next.

I'd have tried a local hardware store, but since they only keep bankers' hours, it's not hard to see why they're shutting themselves out of business.

That used to be known as "Sterno". Maybe it still is.

Is it just large bottles of sterno, Ig? I don't find it listed at my local Borg store.

OMG, denatured alcohol is up to $15.29 a gallon now!

-- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -- Sir Winston Churchill

Sterno uses a different gelling agent. I think the disinfecting stuff uses some form of soap. Dollar store for cheap bottles of that. And all solvents are in a dizzying spiral up. I used to pay less than $5 for a gallon of acetone, less than a buck for the cheap mineral spirits. Cheapest place now for solvents is one of the local Ace hardwares, believe it or not.

Stan

Probably for gel fuel ventless fireplaces....

Web site also shows citronella fuel gel in 32 oz jugs, etc...

Ig, E-85 is just $2.60 a gallon. Maybe you need to consider that "denatured alcohol" (denatured with gasoline), and use it for most things you would the other.

You can also gel the stuff...

LLoyd

OK.

Dollar stores sell 50% iso while everyone else sells 70% and 90%. It all works well for removing latex paint and cleaning skin, but I buy the more pure denatured stuff for making shellac and cleaning woodwork prior to finishing.

I'll have to check that out the next time I'm in one. Danke.

-- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -- Sir Winston Churchill

Lloyd, that stuff would be more dangerous, stinky as hell, and would probably rule out insurance coverage wherever it was used. Pass.

-- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -- Sir Winston Churchill

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I said for "most" things. You certainly wouldn't want to thin lacquers or shellac with it, but for burning in alcohol stoves and the like, I can attest that it works just fine, and does NOT stink if burnt, rather than being allowed to evaporate.

LLoyd

Jell-o and grain alcohol:

I've used plain old gasoline - mixed with fine sawdust and wrapped in a napkin - as a fire starter.

It's not gelled, but it does the same thing - slow down vaporization so that the fire burns longer and doesn't go up in one big Hollywood blaze.

In Korea, I've seen gasoline-fired space heaters. Didn't stink too bad, when you consider that Korea generally smells vaguely of garlic breath and s*it.

Cheers! Rich

It's not sterno, it's fuel for the latest fad of "fire pots". Basically some ceramic shape with a well in the top you fill with the napalm and watch it burn.