Nalgene bottle for fuel storage.

Hello all!

I've been potting around the forums but not that active in discussions. I finished school last year and am extremely busy. I now realise how easy and innocent [well, not quite innocent <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />] my scool days were!

Anyway, back to the topic. I need a WIDEmouth fuel bottle, about 1 litre in volume. the only bottle that seems to meet these specifications is the Nalgene bottle. the fuel is parrafin [I think it is also known as lamp oil or kerosine?]

My queries:
Will the nalgene bottle degrade as a result of the fuel?
will the smell of fuel leak when it is sealed?
Why are they so expensive!?

Obviously I will mark the bottle in a very blatent way so that it can be identified as a fuel bottle, and it's sole purpose will be for fuel.

Any thoughts will be welcomed!

Go with their [olycarbonate bottle. It should be fine. They are expensive because people do things like you want to do. They are pretty indestructable.

Nalgene makes a fuel bottle in the ½ liter as well as the 1-liter size. I have used them for a number of years with good results. They come with a spout to allow for easy fueling of stoves, lamps etc that is well thought out and easy to use. It stores under the cap upside down inside the bottle. I store white gas, K1 Kerosene as well as ultra pure 1-K Kerosene in mine. They are also rated to take alcohol fuel even though I have not used them for that yet. The newer ones have a place to write on them the type of fuel you are using that bottle for but the older ones I just used a Sharpie to write the pertinent information on them. They have never leaked or smelled of fuel even the one I store in my truck year around.

Nalgene originally started out as labware - centrifuge bottles, filter units, storage tanks, etc. So I'm sure you can find a Nalgene bottle that can withstand just about anything you could put in it. If you check out their website, you'll find links for their Packaging, Labware and Outdoor Divisions.

I find them only relatively expensive since they're virtually indestructible and they don't leak. (just don't "manhandle" the lids when they're at either temperature extreme)

I only wish that I had learned of them before I had tried everything else.