What color HEET bottle do I get if denatured alcohol isn't available? Also, if HEET brand isn't available, what do I need to look for when buying a generic brand? For example, 7 Eleven has their own brand but I wasn't sure which bottle to get. Thx!
What color HEET bottle do I get if denatured alcohol isn't available? Also, if HEET brand isn't available, what do I need to look for when buying a generic brand? For example, 7 Eleven has their own brand but I wasn't sure which bottle to get. Thx!
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Get the Yellow HEET, which is methanol. The red HEET is isopropanol and doesn't work nearly as well.
Yellow bottle of Heet. It's Gas line cleaner/water remover I believe so just look for that on a generic. It's should contain Methanol or "Meths"
Definitely yellow. Denatured alcohol is even purer, and burns hotter/faster. Its almost too hot for my cat stove. Look for anything generic called "methylated spirits". In a pinch get a pint of everclear...
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From what I've seen, and in my experience, the generics have used the same color of bottles. Red and Yellow. Yellow is what you want. But check the labels too. :-)
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They both have advantages.
yellow = methanol
- the least visible flame
- not as hot
- the cleanest
red = 2-propanol
- highly visible flame
- hot
- sooty
With any new brand: It should contain only alcohol/water. Less water is better.
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Good post cabbagehead. I've found that isopropanol is more efficient than ethanol with a side burner stove and a narrow pot, but ethanol is still more desirable because it burns clean. Ethanol can be made a little more efficient by adding a little water.
I used the yellow heet for my alcohol stove on my thru hike this year, and it worked great. I did have to but a red bottle once because nobody had the yellow ones. It did burn hotter, but i had to use twice as much than the yellow, and it did make a mess of both my stove and pot because of the soot it leaves when burning. So i would agree that the yellow is what you would want to use if you choose to go that route.
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Isopropanol (red bottle) is easier to cut with water. If you do it right, you can simmer with an alcohol stove.
.... or you could use a simmer ring.
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Yellow - camp fuel
Red - light duty bike chain solvent (for when you don't want your apt. smelling like strong chemicals)
I thought that pure 2-propanol was the most efficient. I should test it some time. I would prefer methanol for the cleanliness. If I was going to the middle of nowhere (at least 1 week without a resupply) I would want the most efficient fuel (regardless of the cleanup time).
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It should be the most efficient, but with any type of alcohol, you have to make sure the flames actually hit your pot instead of shooting out the side. I find with 75% 2-propanol and identical amounts of straight ethanol, I can boil two pots of water instead of one. I would dilute ethanol too, but it hasn't diluted as well for me. I wish it did, or that isopropanol burned without covering my pot with soot all the way up to the rim. It doesn't clean up easily either. You should try boiling a few pots of water with it at home. You might find that you'd rather never use it again unless it was the only type of alcohol available.
I always use Yellow.
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I need you to be a little more specific.
When I use 75% isopropanol, it burns with an ideal flame pattern and lasts a long time. It can be difficult to light in the field when it's cold though. 99% isopropanol can burn quite vigorously, although it has better flame control than ethanol, and I haven't had a problem with lighting this.
Still, any isopropanol...aka, rubbing alcohol...aka, 2-propanol...makes a lot of soot that makes it worth avoiding. Ethanol burns clean and is inexpensive when bought by the gallon. Burning clean is enough reason to use it. I would conduct some comparison tests, but I really hate cleaning up isopropanol soot.
Heet-yellow. D. Alcohol (SLX), and last but not least, brake fluid. Go see a video on Youtube on the subject. Mini Bull Design did a video on it.
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Definitely yellow so, I would prefer methanol for the cleanliness.
In case anyone hasn't provided you with the correct information (but I see that most have), YELLOW....YELLOW and only YELLOW. Anything else in the "generic" version of denatured alcohol will cause soot and smoke to the high heavens.