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Default I love the smell of napalm at Home Depot

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:15:49 -0600, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

lid wrote:
I was at Home Depot and saw that they sell "gelled fuel" now. This
fuel is almost like napalm in properties, except that the burning
agent is alcohol and not benzene. It was on sale and I bought a couple
of bottles to experiment.
Is it just large bottles of sterno, Ig? I don't find it listed at my
local Borg store.

OMG, denatured alcohol is up to $15.29 a gallon now! thud

Ig, E-85 is just $2.60 a gallon. Maybe you need to consider that
"denatured alcohol" (denatured with gasoline), and use it for most things
you would the other.


Lloyd, that stuff would be more dangerous, stinky as hell, and would
probably rule out insurance coverage wherever it was used. Pass.

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hoping it will eat him last.
-- Sir Winston Churchill


I've used plain old gasoline - mixed with fine sawdust and wrapped in a
napkin - as a fire starter.

It's not gelled, but it does the same thing - slow down vaporization so
that the fire burns longer and doesn't go up in one big Hollywood blaze.


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