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Alcohol burner fuel

Random - 6-7-2010 at 02:45

I am thinking about alcohol burner fuel and I found one cheap nail polish remover. Its composition says:

Mek (probably methyl ethyl ketone)
water
isopropyl alcohol
methoxyisopropanol
calcium chloride

Would this be safe for alcohol burner fuel?

rrkss - 6-7-2010 at 03:04

Just buy a cheap bottle of denatured alcohol at the hardware store. Water in the ingredients seems counterproductive for a fuel.

woelen - 6-7-2010 at 03:08

The calcium chloride in the nail polish remover also is not good in a burner. It will not evaporate and over time the burner will get full of calcium chloride residue. As rrkss states, buy plain denatured alcohol and use that.