Cold Conditions Tips For Alcohol Stoves

I tin recommend at to the lowest degree 4 "tricks" for alcohol stoves inwards mutual coldness weather:

1. Keep your alcohol inwards a coat steal or somewhere where it volition remain warm.
2. Use methanol such equally comes inwards the yellowish bottle of HEET that tin move purchased at Walmart, auto parts stores, etc. Methanol to a greater extent than oftentimes than non has a higher vapor pressure level than denatured alcohol as well as volition piece of occupation amend inwards cold. DON'T drinkable methanol, don't breath the fumes, as well as don't move it on your hands. Methanol is toxic as well as tin atomic number 82 to severe neurological problems, blindness, as well as death. Yipes!  But if you're rubber how y'all pour as well as burn, it's no large deal.  Don't move intimidated; only move careful.
3. Use a priming pan. I piece of occupation the lid from an one-time tin of tea. The lid is slightly bigger inwards circumference than my stove.  Put the lid underneath your stove. Pour some alcohol inwards the priming pan as well as ignite. The alcohol inwards the priming pan volition warm the stove as well as render for faster vaporization.
4. Insulate! Put something similar some unopen prison theater mobile telephone foam cutting from an one-time backpacking pad nether the stove. You don't desire snowfall or mutual coldness soil sucking the oestrus out of your stove. I roll my unopen prison theater mobile telephone foam inwards duct record to a) protect the foam as well as b) foreclose spills from getting into the foam which could grab forcefulness out spell operating the stove. Don't inquire me how I know that concluding bit. ;)  On altitude of the foam, I ready a round down cutting out of to a greater extent than or less 36 ga. aluminum canvass on altitude of which I ready the alcohol stove.  The piffling circle of aluminum helps diffuse the oestrus as well as thus y'all don't screw upwards your duct-tape wrapped pad.

Got other tips?  Please send 'em my way. 

HJ

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