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Starchild
12-17-2013, 10:07
I have found the term multi-fuel stove has different meanings. The strict definition is just that, a stove that can use more then one fuel, but doesn't specify the fuels. Multifuel stoves used to mean almost exclusively a white gas stove that can also burn other petroleum liquids such as gasoline or kerosene - and it still seems to mean that to some. For others it is a stove that can run usually 2 out of the 3, esbit/wood/alcohol.

So when you hear the term multifuel stove what comes to mind and how do you use the term?

rangeley
12-17-2013, 11:16
I have a Whisperlite Universal which burns white gas, gasoline and I think kerosene. It burns multiple fuels.
I also have a Solo stove that burns wood, and I have the alcohol burning insert or it that makes it a multi fuel stove.
Any stove that burns more than one type of fuel is a multi fuel stove, regardless of what type of fuels it burns.

I don't see how there can be two ways around this debate

bobp
12-17-2013, 13:47
The usual area to debate is around what constitutes "different" with respect to fuels. There are "multi-fuel" stoves on the market that achieve that distinction by virtue of accepting both white gas and unleaded gasoline. To me, that seems like the bar that has both kinds of music: Country AND Western. On the other hand, stoves that will burn gasoline, kerosene, diesel, and have an attachment for canisters are legitimate multi-fuel stoves to me.

I seem to remember some Russian copy of a Swedish stove that burns gasoline, alcohol, kerosene, aviation fuel, diesel, and probably bear urine.

squeezebox
12-17-2013, 16:42
Do the orifices have to be changed ?
Go back to the 1930s and there was a substantial difference between Country music & Western music.

leaftye
12-17-2013, 16:47
Kovea Spider (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CFPIPKA/) can run isobutane with an inverted canister.

This adapter (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CFPIT06/) will let you use the narrower cans from grocery stores.

Or run straight propane with this adapter (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CFPISZW/).

Those adapters should still work with the MSR Whisperlite Universal, so you can run kerosene, white gas, gasoline, isobutane, inverted isobutane and propane.