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Pumice is lava rock

Did one of the rectangular stones break from the fire? Or did you break it?

I'm thinking of trying the cheap natural sharpening stones (mostly compressed alumina particles) at Harbor Freight. They may be higher density than the pumice stone. Looks the Gordon stones cost about $3 at the moment. I thought I saw something like that for about $1 a couple years ago. At about 8" x 3", it's a lot of product. You should be able to break it into about 3 pieces using brick chipping techniques.

What about paraffin, would that not have a longer burn time and how about putting the stone in a lidded metal tin to snuff it out when not needed?🤔 If it works well with Paraffin you could potentially get custom made tins and start a small business from it, oh and one other thing provided the tin is durable could it be used in a similar fashion as a hand warmer/ sleeping bag heater?

The non-floating stones work better because the floating ones, well, float. They float for *years* in the Pacific, where they sometimes collect into small floating islands. And they float so well and so long because the bubbles in the stone (and yes, it *is* volcanic stone) are closed, so water (or fuel) can't soak into them. The callus stones, on the other hand, aren't really pumice (or might be recycled pumice, crushed and bound back into shape with some kind of resin); all the pores are open and connected, so they collect much more fuel -- but they don't float (or not for long) because the air cells don't stay air cells; they become water or alcohol cells...

I tried one grill cleaning stone, it melted. Not sure what it was made of, it wasn’t pumice. I tried for brick it didn’t work very well.

Excellent. You do not need the music. People who do not offer useful info need to fill the time with music. Just sayin.

There's the concave cup dead center in the stove. Pressurize fuel bottle, then open & close valve just so there's a little bit of fuel in that cup. Close valve, light stove. When fuel is almost burned up, turn on the valve. This should prevent that big flame-up when lighting & prime the stove. Also, MSR makes an arctic pump, which I just got & will try out this winter. Should hold pressure better in extreme cold.

It sure looks peaceful there. Thank you for making this video, I look forward to more!!!

Thumbs up #58. 👍

John, after watching you drill holes in the cup to use as a strainer, it gave me an idea. I purchased the same mess kit as yours and drilled holes around the outside of the cup. I made 4 grooves in the lip to rest a couple of nails across, and now use it as a solid fuel cooker for the kit. It works really well 😊

Nice stove I wonder if it is supposed to be used with the "Mountain Mess Kit"? It has a round pot that would fit very well on the burner. I've seen them for sale but they are pricey. You should have had a poptart for dessert in memory of Paul Harrell. Thanks for showing the stove and congratulations on 2k.

Using the pumice stone 🪨 for feet 🦶-the heat would “sanitize” the rock by fire 🔥 so no worries about foot fungus or other nasties 🦠 in fact, burning the stone like that would “clean” the stone (burn off the dead foot skin etc), which would make the stone reusable.

Good Evening John ! Looks like a nice stove. TAKE CARE..

Cool stove; it’s pricey! 🤑 instead of the cream of chicken, you should have used some SPAM and a can of cream of SPAM 😀 😋 🍽️ maybe I’ll try some rice 🍚 with spam and broccoli 🥦 sometime. Cool, fun channel! 🎥 have a great day Olive Drab Alliance. 🇺🇸

Congratulations on 2K!!

that is way to fancy for me lol

I thought I was going to lose my dinner, when I saw you brought broccoli. 😉 👍

Great video! Love watching this type of stuff. Looks like fun. Cheers!

For a second, i thought you were gonna add some spam cubes to the steam tray.

I used Coleman gas in this video. Thanks!

Neat. Thank you

I forgot to mention, thus stove does not burn alcohol. It burns a variety of other fuels but nit alcohol. Thanks

Always thought of it as foamed volcanic glass .

This type of stone/material is not used for fire source as it does not actually absorb any liquid, the liquid fills voids within but also is released uncontrolled and too fast to be considered useful. With ETOH as fuel you'll be fighting evaporation constantly and losing fuel to the air before being burned making it ultra inefficient compared to current methods in use. There are several problems to overcome such as regulating flame, extinguishing on demand, refueling as you mentioned and fragility of the stone which will become weaker with each use and quickly just start to crumble into pieces. When you think of making a fire source your first thought should be can you control the fuel if not back to the drawing board.

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A true wcientist would have taken the hot stone and seen if it would still remove callous.🤗😉🤗

Really good share. Nice comparison

Well, at least you can use it to make starting an other fire more easily. (?)

Pizza stone material works well too.

My Great Grandfather did this with bricks and kerosene. He lived in a very rural very small coal mining town. One night there was a municipal band concert at the band shell in the town park, and for whatever reason, the gas street lights were not working. He soaked bricks in kerosene and hung them up by wires around town, along the streets so people would not have to walk home in the dark. I do not know what kind of bricks or how big. I do not know how long he soaked them. I do not know how long they burned. It's a family story, with no details. He passed in 1977 at the age of 97. I did know him and I did spend time with him.

This is a stupid test. You should be testing with all the same stones and the same alcohol. This proves nothing.

Super interesting. I'd like to see how these work as an element in an alcohol stove (in place of carbon felt for example). Good observation.

This is a new one on me. Great testing

Interesting idea. The pumice stone in this case, is a hard wick. The fuel burns away and goes out when it runs dry. If you had a container of fuel and the stone blocking the surface of the fuel, where it floats on top and rides the fuel level down as it is burned, it's then a reusable wick...until it breaks. The stone equivalent of a carbon felt wick. Peace <><

There is a South African company that sells this as a reusable firelighter. Just couple of stones in a large test tube shaped container, soaking in parafin.

What did you prove?

fyi no one pegs down their swags in Australia with the exception of the end ropes to allow ventilation in cold weather to reduce condensation.

It's be interesting to see a thermal camera image of the 2 stones burning. Alcohol usually burns with a very white/invisible flame, so the foil wrapped one may actually cook better.

It is lava :)

My dad used a pumice stone and methylated spirit to start our weekly BBQ fire

The rubbing alcohol (isopropanol) should be fairly benign, but HEET is actually 99% methanol (I confirmed this by looking up the MSDS). NOT something you'd like to have around when preparing food. There is something called "ISO-HEET", which I suspect is mostly isopropanol.

I thought there was a small pair of stainless steel scissors in that kit. Where they listed on the contents page ? The two small plastic containers would make good salt and pepper shakers. Happy Trails

Isopropyl alcohol is not a good Trangia fuel. It tends to smudge the bottom of pots. Heet is good. KleenStrip denatured alcohol -- sold as camp fuel -- is the best. But the last gallon I bought was 25% more expensive than Coleman gas.

Cool, interesting experiment. 👍

Wonder what'd happen if you put a dense pumice stone in a vacuum jar with some gel fuel, and then took it out?

Only way the callouses on my feet get removed is a sanding drum in my dewalt...!

That’s pretty darn Rad!

That's an interesting idea, I noticed one of the stones was broken later in the video. Was that from the burning? Have a great week brother.

Who are these people that desire soft feet?