After reading a post about a SAT, I've decided to get mine out and have a play with it. I seem to remember not using it because of the cost of meths. Can anyone recommend where to buy it cheap and are there any alternatives. Cheers
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Perrari
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DIY stores are probably your best bet, go for small local ones rather than places like B&Q, it will probably be cheaper.
Get is here for £18
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mineralis...nt_Lab_Supplies_ET&hash=item20cc6e92fc&_uhb=1
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Get it here for £14 for 5L but you have to buy 10l of it. In just under a year ive got through a 5L tub in my Trangia 25
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mineralis...nt_Lab_Supplies_ET&hash=item20cc6e92fc&_uhb=1
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Get is at just under £12 pounds for 5L but you have to buy 20L.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mineralis...nt_Lab_Supplies_ET&hash=item20cc6eaae8&_uhb=1
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mineralis...nt_Lab_Supplies_ET&hash=item20cc6e92fc&_uhb=1
OR
Get it here for £14 for 5L but you have to buy 10l of it. In just under a year ive got through a 5L tub in my Trangia 25
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mineralis...nt_Lab_Supplies_ET&hash=item20cc6e92fc&_uhb=1
OR
Get is at just under £12 pounds for 5L but you have to buy 20L.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mineralis...nt_Lab_Supplies_ET&hash=item20cc6eaae8&_uhb=1
Great info here as always, thanks guys. Bio fuel, last time I looked at that it was £6 a litre or something daft like that. Wondering if its come down in price any, you could safely cook in doors with that mmmmmm
You're right about the price of the 'bio' stuff.
My meths comes from French supermrkets and it's half the price you pay in England, the last I paid was a little under E1.40 per litre in 1 litre size and a little less in 5l.
There's a guy on here uses methanol but it's a bit nasty compared to meths and it's even less efficient in heat per litre than meths.
To be honest for the amount that you use in cooking the cost probably isn't that much of an issue, but if you're walking in with it the weight per meal might be.
The French meths is certainly the most pleasant fuel to use -- apart from high-test vodka, that is.
widu13
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I've been using methanol for years and Rik for even longer. There is no difference in boil times in real life.
20l for £15.
20l for £15.
Try your local cheap tool place, (The kinda place that sells the same brand of tools as Poundland) I've got it down to £1.59 for a 500ml bottle, my mate used to buy it from Wicks D.I.Y for £3.29 for the same
is the methanol clean burning, I mean does it soot up the pan. 20ltr for £15,Christ that's cheap.
Ebay; this one's quite handy for you...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Biodiesel...Equipment_Lab_Supplies_ET&hash=item35c0b997a1
Be careful with it. Treat it with respect. In my experience it is every bit as good as meths for use in Trangias etc., but, as ged has suggested, it is nasty. It is poisonous and it can be absorbed thru' your skin.
widu13
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Once I made the move to methanol I found myself using it more and more, I use it now in my honey, with my Mkettle etc. So much easier than burning solid fuel.
Clean burning too.
Clean burning too.
Your right, don't drink it or wash in it
Its all I use now, and won't switch back to meths.
