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Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:58 am
by polarcherry
Is it easy to by small quantities of Meths abroad cheaply?

I ask as last time I tried with a multi fuel stove to buy paraffin abroad (which is easily available here in any hardware store) it was I nightmare to buy anything less than a gallon. While gas canisters which I thought would be hard to get and the reason for taking the multifuel stove in the first place were dead easy to get.

Off to Slovenia in Sept and want to be able to buy 500ml bottles of Meths for my stove

Re: Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:26 pm
by ctznsmith
You can buy litre bottles of ethanol fuel for spirit burners fairly easily in europe. there is a table on the trangia site with fuel name translations into other languages.

Re: Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:31 pm
by polarcherry
Is it just from hardwear shops? As we can get it in large supermarkets too

Re: Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:56 pm
by Karl
http://trangia.se/wp-content/uploads/20 ... -lista.pdf

This is the link to the fuel translations ctznsmith was referring to:

Re: Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:03 pm
by polarcherry
Thanks

Re: Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:04 pm
by jameso
I've found it in supermarkets of all sizes in France Germany and Italy fwiw. What's Slovenia's barbecue culture like? :grin:

Re: Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:30 pm
by ctznsmith
supermarkets and/or petrol stations is where i've normally got it. Never been to slovenia though.

Re: Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 6:42 pm
by MikeOnabike
In some countries chemists are also a good bet. You can get 1L bottles of methanol/surgical spirit.

Re: Buying Meths abroad

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 12:09 pm
by Fat tyre kicker
I've bought it from the chemists in Dolgellau,hard to
Find there,never mind abroad :smile: