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Ethanol Fireplaces
- Thread starter pitzerwm
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PaulLovesJamie
rural 5 bay SS
Hiya Bill - Havent see these fireplaces, but I do use a homemade soda can stove for cooking when I'm wilderness hunting, the fuel is any type of alcohol, I use ethanol. A couple tablespoons of ethanol is enough to boil tea, soup, chili, fry a fish...
Anyway I have 2 comments:
- ethanol does generate a lot of heat, so you will be adding heat to the room
- the flame is clear, almost invisible. I add salt to the ethanol so I can see it for safety purposes. So you'd either need to add something yourself or buy the ethanol with additives in it.
Anyway I have 2 comments:
- ethanol does generate a lot of heat, so you will be adding heat to the room
- the flame is clear, almost invisible. I add salt to the ethanol so I can see it for safety purposes. So you'd either need to add something yourself or buy the ethanol with additives in it.
pitzerwm
Active member
Hi Paul, What makes these fireplaces look like real fire? I don't need the heat, only the looks.
http://www.woodlanddirect.com/Firep...l-Fireplaces?gclid=CJjf-vnPuqcCFQI8gwodv04qAQ
http://www.woodlanddirect.com/Firep...l-Fireplaces?gclid=CJjf-vnPuqcCFQI8gwodv04qAQ
PaulLovesJamie
rural 5 bay SS
They do look nice, if I didnt have a woodburner I'd want one.
The color comes from different elements that are burning, so I assume the fuel they sell for these fireplaces has stuff added to it already - what I meant was dont get cheap and buy drygas, use the stuff they sell even though its probably more expensive.
When I was a kid we used to throw different stuff in the fire to get different colors. We called it science experiments, but we were really just playing with fire
Table salt was yellow, Epsom salts were white, something else was green and blue, I dont remember. We burned just about anything we could think of in the name of science. It was good to be a boy in the 60s before they made kids wear helmets all the time
The color comes from different elements that are burning, so I assume the fuel they sell for these fireplaces has stuff added to it already - what I meant was dont get cheap and buy drygas, use the stuff they sell even though its probably more expensive.
When I was a kid we used to throw different stuff in the fire to get different colors. We called it science experiments, but we were really just playing with fire
Table salt was yellow, Epsom salts were white, something else was green and blue, I dont remember. We burned just about anything we could think of in the name of science. It was good to be a boy in the 60s before they made kids wear helmets all the time
I.B. Washincars
Car Washer Emeritus
Yeah, I've planted a hatchet into my knee
and hit myself in the mouth with a hammer...twice
. Those were the days.
and hit myself in the mouth with a hammer...twice. Those were the days.
soapy
Senior Member
I remember only being 5 years old when my brothers were watching me one night and they got all their friends together for a bon fire while the parents were gone. Someone threw a oil filter full of gas in the fire and it exploded. Several of the guys got started on fire and I can still remember people rolling in the dirt to get put out. I was spared but my brothers burns paled in comparison to my dads wrath.
Jimmy Buffett
Active member
If you hit a roll of those caps with a hammer it makes a decent explosion. Don't you try it though Pat, you might hit yourself.
