Fuel bottle
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i will see if i still have mine, hopefully i havent thrown it away, if i do your welcome to have it. i will pm you in the next few days once i have had time to look though my boxes
It depends on the fuel. Meths will probably be all right, but hydrocarbons may damage the stopper and possibly the seal.
Bottles designed for fuel use different plastics in the stoppers and seals from those designed for drinks. If you put fuel in a drinks bottle sometimes the stopper tends to expand. I guess it's absorbing the fuel. Then, if the bottle is metal, the plastic threads don't mate properly with the metal threads and the stopper is hard to turn. When you turn the stopper it cuts bits of the plastic thread away and eventually there will be none left. You can get the stoppers and seals separately, and I've fitted fuel-type stoppers to drinks-type metal bottles and had no problems.
Once I had an aluminium Sigg bottle corrode badly on the outside because it was kept full of meths in a place that was often damp (under the kitchen sink). The meths must have regularly been causing condensation to form on the outside of the bottle, which then caused the corrosion. There's a link to a photo of the bottle somewhere on this forum.
I also once had an aluminium Sigg bottle corrode right through because I left it in a (dry) cupboard with water inside it.
I no longer keep Sigg bottles anywhere they're likely to be damp for a long time, nor do I keep water in them for long periods.
