I wouldn't either. The pharmaceutical grade alcohol, called SD alcohol,
would be cleanest you could get without tax.
You're telling this guy to try to buy USP EToH to burn in a friggin' stove?
Amazing. Do you have any idea how much licensing and oversight is required to
buy that stuff? The paperwork is about equal to Schedule drugs. My uncle
owned a small pharmaceutical company until his death about 10 years ago. He
had a walk-in safe. Two things went in the safe. Schedule drugs and USP
EtOH. He had to account for every drop including evaporation.
If you go to the BATF site you can download the denaturing formulary. there
are thousands of formulas to match all the EtOH uses. Some require only trace
amounts of intensely bittering agents. Gasoline or MEoH is also in the
formulary. This is academic information in this context since MEoH is still
likely to be the cheapest and best solution for the stove.
Personally, I don't like breathing combustion fumes from anything.
So you don't cook with gas, camp, drive a car or anything else involving fire?
Interesting. Especially interesting in this context since the combustion
products of alcohol are water and CO2. Practically impossible to get it to
make CO. That's why alcohol stoves are so popular in other countries where CO
alarms might not be available. An oxygen-starved MeOH flame makes
formaldehyde before it will CO and THAT will drive you out of the room long
before it'll harm you.
John
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