Good talking to you today bud, thanks for the advice, gladly taken my friend.
I'll pm you and let you know how it goes. :You_Rock_
I'll pm you and let you know how it goes. :You_Rock_
Woodsmoke, What is the latest on your battle with Customs & Excise?
What uses do C & E approve off to get a licence?
What does everyone think of using the small plastic fuel bottle supplied with the Swedish army cooker, filled with meths, and stored inside the cooker along with the burner.
Personally it gives me the creeps and so does the soot on my hands.
Surely the evaporated fuel residue and soot must contain some noxious substances.
Happy trails...torc.
The fuel bottle and the burner is supposed to be carried on your person so body heat warms it up before use, it is placed inside to keep it together in the stores. You can't fit the kuska inside the billy with the fuel bottle in there.
You are right about carrying the bottle on the person in cold conditions, which perhaps explains why the fuel bottle looks like a hip flask.
You can, in fact, fit the kuksa, burner and fuel bottle inside the billy but there is a knack to it. The kuksa goes in first, handle up, and the burner fits inside the kuksa, then you add the fuel bottle. There is also room for a lighter spork and small brew kit. Well, it works on mine anyway!
Just got my letter asking to review my licence; they asked who my supplier was [Boots the Chemist]; how much I used.
I expect my licence to be withdrawn. [But still I still have more than half of my original 4 litres left... I shan't worry too much; I tend to use JetBoil/kelly Kettle more]
Is methanol not hard to get as it's used in crystal meth making?
I always thought the licences were to stop it being drunk by alcoholics.
It's cheap and has no additives in it
Meths is the same stuff but has the dye to put people off drinking it.
It burns much cleaner than normal meths
Mark
I understand from one of my less savoury relations that you can get the colour out of meths by filtering it through burnt toast (carbon) Apparently a few layers on top of a bowl and trickle through a couple of times. Pass through some coffee filter to take out the toast crumbs! Not sure if it takes all the other 'stuff' out too but it'd be easy to find out!
Good Luck fella keep pluggin!
Alan