Monday, February 23 2009, 10:30 am


Well, we survived three days and two nights of camping in the chilly February air...

Of course, we were in a heated, two-room cabin, but still... It was cold outside in the mornings!

We finally got to test out our new MSR Dragonfly stove, but first I had to swap out the DG jet (white gas and gasoline) for the DK one (kerosene, aviation fuel, or diesel).

Then I filled up the MSR fuel bottle with biodiesel (a B20 blend) from the spare 5 gallon tank in the back of the car.

It took about three matches to get going -- the MSR has a cotton wick that you saturate with liquid fuel and light in order to get to the vaporization stage. Then, as that catches, the diesel is black and smoky. As soon as you get to the vaporization stage (where presumable the flame spreader et as is hot enough to instantly vaporize the fuel) it burns very cleanly and hot.

So biodiesel was a success.


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