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Mile High Steamer

Whats you're poisen?

I was wondering what every one on here likes to fuel their engines with but  if you want to also mention you're favorite bevrage as well then ok mine is mexican Coca-Cola that comes in glass bottles and is made with real sugar and is deffenetly the real thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m...Gm0&feature=player_detailpage   MHS
scalex

At the moment mine is 240v going through my variac to a electricly heated Jensen engine
ItSteams

bailys , vodka , metho , ouzo depends on concious state , have avoided odorless  gas and cheating electric so far
MrDuck

I like good beverages and my engines like to sniff gas, others are alcoholics and then there is the pill chompers and we all know how addictive that is

I think moments for a lil' drink are more relevant and a cosy session with a fine cigarr or good pipe and a glass of napoleon with soothing music in the basckground is a great moment

(Don't mind some sandwiches with paté de fois gras to that )
kevin

I like the smell of meths in the morning
46u

On my electric ones no brainier on my fuel engines I like gas over any other means. You have so much better control over the heat then any other way on fuel engines no smell burns clean. I have two burners and it covers all my fuel engines.
kevin

Dangerous chemicals, bad smells, uncontroled flames, spillages....but thats what us little boys love
IndianaRog

Dual purpose "fuel" I use in my otherwise meths consuming engines and locos because it smells a whole lot better!

If so inclined, with Grain alcohol you can safely make a mixed drink, something frowned upon with meths as it can kill or blind you

ministeamer

At the moment I just use fuel tablets, although I'd rather run engines on meths. I shall have to try and get my hands on some Mexican Coke, it sounds interesting.
logoman

petrol.
redryder

ministeamer wrote:
At the moment I just use fuel tablets, although I'd rather run engines on meths. I shall have to try and get my hands on some Mexican Coke, it sounds interesting.


Coca Cola in many countries outside of the USA is made with real sugar. That crappy high fructose corn syrup is used in most all soft drinks in the USA and most processed sweetened foods. So you might not need Mexican Coke. In the USA Mexican Coke is the easiest to find source of cane sugar in a beverage in many areas. The Whole Foods Market sells a house brand called "365" that uses 100% sugar cane sugar and tastes great. The USA still has idiotic protective tariffs on any imported cane sugar and right now we are sitting on a hugely substandard corn crop, much of which is being plowed into the ground to make room for something else as much of what is there isn't worth harvesting. All this while our administration sits on it's hands and does nothing to adjust the required uses of corn such as lifting sugar tariffs and removing our expensive corn liquor from our gasoline supply.

Gil
kevininasia

I use methanol or butane most of the time and esbit once in a while.

My favourite beverage would be a reddish-brown ale.
angus

redryder wrote:
That crappy high fructose corn syrup is used in most all soft drinks in the USA and most processed sweetened foods.

Certainly agree with your judgment on that appalling stuff  
dampfmaschinenjoe 1967

I like some real cider. It was  not only the real drink for steam engineers at ancient times,  it also tastes well today....... but not at work or when I have to ride my car.


cheers Joe
Celsius 100

Butane/propane mix for the engines apart from the coal fired Fowler and draught bitter for me.
MrMamod

Latte for me - Petrol for the motor - Butane/propane for the soldering gun AND Meths for the engines           ..
46u

IndianaRog wrote:
Dual purpose "fuel" I use in my otherwise meths consuming engines and locos because it smells a whole lot better!

If so inclined, with Grain alcohol you can safely make a mixed drink, something frowned upon with meths as it can kill or blind you



When I was much younger we use to take shots of 195 proof and chance it with beer then go ride motorcycles. Needles to say I use to party a week sleep a day now if I party a day I have to sleep a week so my parting days are pretty much over.  
Mile High Steamer

ministeamer wrote:
At the moment I just use fuel tablets, although I'd rather run engines on meths. I shall have to try and get my hands on some Mexican Coke, it sounds interesting.
you bet it is but the only places that sell it are down in mexico and here in the western/south western part of the US wich is good for me but not so for other parts of the country and other countrys   Also, Gil I know that about soda I've had sodas from 5 different countrys 6 including the mexican coca-cola 7 including the mexican sprite, 8 including mexican fanta, but I can get the coca-cola and sprite and fanta at walmart for a dollar a bottle its a hige craze becuase we want sugar not corn syrup if you look it up you cant beleive all the talk about it   MHS
logoman

dampfmaschinenjoe 1967 wrote:
I like some real cider. It was  not only the real drink for steam engineers at ancient times,  it also tastes well today....... but not at work or when I have to ride my car.


cheers Joe


would love to know more about this Joe.
BK

Gas/rum  
The Denying Dutchman

Alcohol, because it's cheap. (I wish they didn't put those nasty smelling chemicals in it.)
And if I'm in a nostalgic  mood I use Esbit, I love the smell of Esbit.

Favorite drink: fruit juice. Boring eh?  
Mile High Steamer

I don't think fruit juce is boring and they shoud try to come up with an alcohole with out those nasty chemmicals   MHS
Pineapple11

I'm running my engine on meths and solid fuel, I'd like a gas burner but can't really afford one. As for beverages, cabernet sauvignon, or any red wine for that matter, just not beer - I hate beer
Mile High Steamer

yeah those gas burners are expesive I think they price them that high becuase of the prices of engines when a lot of us get them used for reasonable prices on ebay  as for the beverage good to know     MHS
Busted Bricks

I love a good cuppa. Cider, Ale, Lagavulin or G&T if it has to be alcoholic. Don't drink alcohol very often though.
redryder

We like apple cider here but we don't get it with alcohol. It comes fresh from an apple farm a couple miles away. They make some of the best pies there too.

A glass of wine or a cold beer is all I need for alcohol.

Gil
Busted Bricks

I was an exchange student in 1984  in Brookfield, CT. I remember the fresh apple juice (cider) very well. Liked it warm with cinnamon as well as cold. Never tried proper scrumpy until we moved to the UK.
redryder

Busted Bricks wrote:
I was an exchange student in 1984  in Brookfield, CT. I remember the fresh apple juice (cider) very well. Liked it warm with cinnamon as well as cold. Never tried proper scrumpy until we moved to the UK.


Ah yes..... warm with cinnamon or perhaps a little nutmeg is real good. On an icey cold day hot with cinnamon and a shot of rum in it was also good.
Mile High Steamer

great now I have a craving for some apple juice or cider and thats great how theres a apple farm so close to you Gil a nice fresh crisp New England apples always sounds good   MHS
Pineapple11

All this talk of cider has reminded me of how much I used to love it, I'll have to pick some up sometime  
ministeamer

redryder wrote:
ministeamer wrote:
At the moment I just use fuel tablets, although I'd rather run engines on meths. I shall have to try and get my hands on some Mexican Coke, it sounds interesting.


Coca Cola in many countries outside of the USA is made with real sugar. That crappy high fructose corn syrup is used in most all soft drinks in the USA and most processed sweetened foods. So you might not need Mexican Coke. In the USA Mexican Coke is the easiest to find source of cane sugar in a beverage in many areas. The Whole Foods Market sells a house brand called "365" that uses 100% sugar cane sugar and tastes great. The USA still has idiotic protective tariffs on any imported cane sugar and right now we are sitting on a hugely substandard corn crop, much of which is being plowed into the ground to make room for something else as much of what is there isn't worth harvesting. All this while our administration sits on it's hands and does nothing to adjust the required uses of corn such as lifting sugar tariffs and removing our expensive corn liquor from our gasoline supply.

Gil


After some quick research, it turns out that Australian Coke is made with sugar, rather than HFCS. I seem to recall trying several imported American soft drinks, and I found that they all tasted like Listerine.
Mile High Steamer

yeah the taste of sugar is sweet but the tast of corn syrup is bitter but thank god for the mexican sodas in this part of the US I can tell the story of corn syrup if any one is interested and mini steamer I've had a coca-cola zero from Austrailia thou I've never been there but would like to go   MHS
Pineapple11

I just checked and we have sugar in our Coke over here. But now I'm interested to know what American Coke tastes like.
Wallace

For my engines it's gas (butane for refillable tank, propane otherwise), meths and one on electricity.
I've found they all have their advantages/disadvantages. I used esbit a couple of times and it was all disadvantages  

I don't drink alcohol anymore. Mostly it's water, a lot of it at work and sometimes gatorade at work. Also the occassional ice coffee
flywheel61

I think this thread could get dangerous,     , I'm gunna leave it right alone,    

Cheers    

Chris
MrDuck

Andrew, I wouldn't discard Esbit completely as despite being smelly, inefficient and leaving a residue reminding of a horrible disease...
...it still is better than nothing
kd02

For the engines, meths and solid fuel but i am going to treat myself to a gas burner for the D20, with it having a sight glass i'll be able to run it for longer without worrying about the water boiling dry, if i want an electric steamer i'll put the kettle on,  
Fuel for me, vodka and coke, Stella Artois, draught beer, home brew beer, occasional white wine and copious amounts of tea and coffee when it's innapropiate to drink alcohol, ie, when i have to drive or work the next day,  
Camst648

A pint of bitter is very nice in the heat and if you are thirsty. however, ,, Joe above there mentioned Cider. .. In the summer heat, Icy cold pear cider at 0.5 celcius. it cant be better
trentbradbury

Coffee, butane, esbit and sterno. No soda or booze any more with the MS it makes it to hard to get around, I'd kill for a really good micro brew right now...
Trent Bradbury
johnreid

Coffee and  Propane Meths Esbit, for fuels

BTW poisOn
MODmanMax

The metho you buy at the hardware store is really ethanol with a bad taste added. Some people still want to drink it so ethanol is the safer choice from a health care perspective. Still don't drink it.

Methanol is racing car fuel usually only available in 44 gallon drums.
It looks and burns the same but you defiantly do not want to drink that.
I have seen the sprint car boys cook a barbeque over a burning tin of methonol.
redryder

Pear cider......... Now there's one I haven't heard of and would like to try!

Gil
Les

redryder wrote:
Pear cider......... Now there's one I haven't heard of and would like to try!

Gil


You might be able to get some from here.

http://foxbarrel.com/cider/contact-fox-barrel/

Star Distributors
460 Frintage Road
West Haven, CT 06516

F&F Distributors
31 Eastern Ave
New London, CT 06320

Rogo Distributors
65 Roberts St.
East Hartford, CT 06108
redryder

Thanks,  Les !

Gil
ozsteamdemon

Whats my poison ?

I`m easy , i take it as it comes !  
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