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joerover
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Gentlemen
White gas burns cleaner, Is more pleasant to use.
unleaded, is available all over the world, smells bad, clogs the stove in time, gets soot on the pans.
cost, is small, 1 gallon will last for a month cooking 2 meals a day with coffee, that's 9 dollars a month.
MSR multifuel stoves are completely field maintainable, slightly lighter, think backpacker.
Coleman multifuel stoves are not completely field maintainable, a little easier to use, heavier, think car camper.
If white gas cost one dollar more a week, that is one dollar well spent
multi fuel stoves are for people who travel in isolated areas, gasoline and kerosene are widely available
the fat lady is breeding
which means
The fat ladys are breeding
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rob
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I'm with landyacht318 and joerover - I ruined three Coleman pressure lamps by using Pemex verde when I couldn't find white gas. After a year, the
generators had clogged up with the famous Pemex varnish (which also gathers in the carbs of my Yamaha outboards if I don't run them dry).
I replaced all the lamp generators - but when they clogged up again said the hell with it and used what we should have in the first place - Aladdin
mantel lamps running on kerosene (petroleo).
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Bajatripper
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| Quote: | Originally posted by joerover
Gentlemen
White gas burns cleaner, Is more pleasant to use.
unleaded, is available all over the world, smells bad, clogs the stove in time, gets soot on the pans.
cost, is small, 1 gallon will last for a month cooking 2 meals a day with coffee, that's 9 dollars a month.
MSR multifuel stoves are completely field maintainable, slightly lighter, think backpacker.
Coleman multifuel stoves are not completely field maintainable, a little easier to use, heavier, think car camper.
If white gas cost one dollar more a week, that is one dollar well spent
multi fuel stoves are for people who travel in isolated areas, gasoline and kerosene are widely available |
Ahhh, the voice of reason. Thank you for the synopsis of the subject, joerover. Give yourself a star.
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landyacht318
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I'll add that in Australia, they call White Gas, Shellite. It was readily available there.
Here's a photo of the MSR stove I've cooked thousands of meal on. Well not the actual stove. Mine's pretty beat up these days but still fully
functional.
Right now I 've got the small tank filled with some Pemex many years old. I last used it to heat 5 gallons of water for bathing. It did support the
weight of 5 gallons of water. At full throttle with a lot of pressure in the tank, it really pumps out some serious BTU's. I fired it up a few months
ago to show a friend. I just had to shake it a few times to loosen up the Jet.
The only downside of them is it is hard to get them to simmer. Takes a light touch and low pressure in the bottle. They also take a little priming
before the feed line gets hot enough to vaporise the fuel and burn cleanly. They smell funky till that occurs.
[Edited on 3-16-2011 by landyacht318]
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