Thanks for the info HOI,
I've tried everything in listed in your posts, except I used my homemade "multi-stand"( pictured in my first post )that allows me to play with the distance to pot. Perhaps I should mention that I was looking to boil 2 cups with 1/2 oz of fuel in a benchtest as a sort of prerequisite to field testing. I was never able to do it reliably with the tea candle-Heinie pot. My feeling is the pot was the problem-not the tea candle. I'll probably play with the idea again on some rainy day when I'm in a beer mood
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