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sundancer

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my SeaRay Sundancer has a 1 ring "alcohol" burning stove. the manual says run it on "ether alchohol" but i cant get it anywhere around the southeast.
Is there any other fuel i could possibly use with this type of stove ?

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Phone up a local school, and get them to tell you who their Chemistry supplier is, then phone them up and have gallons of Alcohol delivered to your door/boat.
There easy.


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Are you sure this is not a misprint which should read ethyl alcohol, commonly just known as alcohol, and now more corectly called ethanol. In which case you use meths.

For God's sake don't try ether should any come your way. That is very very highly flammable.

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...and somewhat soporiferous, I would have thought.

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You need authorisation from C&E to buy Industrial methylated spirit, which is what is used in school labs as 'alcohol'. It is many years since I kept absolute alcohol (pure ethanol) so I'm not up with the current C&E regulations but you wont get someone delivering gallons of that to you without a load of paper work and probably still regular visits from the Customs man.

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mispirnts...

what they mean is Ethyl Alcohol, otherwise known as Ethanol or just Alcohol. Methylated spirits is Ethanol with dye and Methyl alcohol added to stop people drinking it (and thereby evading excise duty!)

So, in the UK ask for Meths, in France, 'alcool de bois' and in american territories 'rubbing alcohol'

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While hunting for solvent suppliers (iso-propanol in this case)....found wood finish specialists could help.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.wsjenkins.co.uk>http://www.wsjenkins.co.uk</A> sell meths in 5l containers.

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Re: Soporiferous

It has quite a plea..sant .. sm...e..ll th..ou...gh zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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I went through the same search and ended with the same result - meths !! Is it a Kenyon stove by any chance?

One word of caution using meths - Soot !!! gets everywhere, especially galley carpet....

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I remember someone advocating add 10% water to remove the soot problem Anyway why not put in a vent in the coach roof and suck the soot out and blow it across the marina!! Just into fitting an Origo so will be interested in this thread.


Mike

Ps. Do they run on Special Brew?

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I have run origo alcohol stoves using meths - not easy to get discounted - on my last two boats. but burns hot and safe and can't say I have ever had a soot problem. Before this I had a meths stove which was great when it worked - had a sort of fibre wick along the horizontal supply tube - had to blow down tank periodically to get it going. NOT to be recommended. Gas - forget it !
It should be fine.

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I have run origo alcohol stoves using meths - not easy to get discounted - on my last two boats. but burns hot and safe and can't say I have ever had a soot problem. Before this I had a meths stove which was great when it worked - had a sort of fibre wick along the horizontal supply tube - had to blow down tank periodically to get it going. NOT to be recommended. Gas - forget it !
It should be fine.

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