After making a distress call on the The Unofficial Mamod and Other Steam Forum I had several replies of all useful nature;
Sterno-solid fuel, cheap
trioxane-camping fuel
hexamine-I think the same as trioxane
a make your own solid alcohol fuel. Check at the bottom of this website. Does anyone think its possible?
http://zenstoves.net/Sterno.htm
And (the one that I did) a new meths burner. What they said was that some of the meths turns into vapor and comes out of the hole (for injecting meths into). My meths burner had the hole inside the firebox so the vapor came out and caught alight causing the whole firebox to, you know, explode into flames. This is a burner that 2 people(tmuir and xlchainsaw) suggested.
.22 shells drilled to fit a 1/8 (inside diameter) tube. (get that right. I had the misfortune of finding my 1/8 tube was actually 2.1 mm inside diameter once. You don't want to no the words that came out i my mouth then)
The tube was cut with a hacksaw, as shown in the photo, then the burr scraped out. The canister was of copper tube 14mm high. My calculations said I could get 8ml of meths in it.
the running w
it went for as long as there was meths and when I showed my admiring family the kind words were, "Does it always take this long to boil?" and," Did you get the cherrys I'd asked you to get this morning" and, " How long will this take I have to go and do the dinner."
kind, understanding family.
note at the end of the film you can see the hole for the vapor alight.

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