Methylated Spirits or IPA?

[preparedsurrey]

I would just use whatever goes with a lightweight fuel stove, don't mess about carrying it in a sprayer, use a purpose made fuel bottle

[ForgeCorvus]

This is a question that I've been wondering about for a while now, in general.
I recently brought a couple of water tight spray bottles to be able to hold some flammable liquid inside of. I'll be using these for assistance with starting a fire (give it a spray or two) when it's hard to start one.

I already have wax cotton rounds, cotton balls in petroleum jelly, fat wood, etc, and they work fine for me. But I'm thinking about what if I can't get a fire started with those or I run out?

So I'm just curious, what would be better to fill spray bottles with for help with fire starting?
Methylated Spirits or 99% IPA?

I've gone back to your OP

You're talking about using a spray bottle full of an Accelerant to dose your tinder ?
While the idea makes sense for something like a BBQ, I wouldn't think of using it as part of my bushkit type preps.
If you're going to carry a spray bottle of fuel, you might as well just carry a bottle of fuel and a stove to burn it in (for those times you can't get a wood fire going, or don't have time to).
Otherwise why not just take more manufactured tinders (wax cotton rounds, cotton balls in petroleum jelly, fat wood, et al) and get as much firecraft practice in as possible

One last thing I will throw in, I've read on some prepper forums based across the Pond that a a few guys carry a road flare for absolute last ditch firelighting

[Plymtom]

How about a clipper lighter and a can of Brut 33 like Roger Moore in Live and let Die?

[gadgetguy]

How about learning to light a fire properly in different circumstances.

Use matches lighters ferro rods to start. Don't just spray fuel on the woodpile. Check out some u tube videos of people starting fires with liquid fuels!

You had plenty of other helpful sources mentiontioned.

Handspray bottles with liquid fuel equal burns

[sniper 55]

Painters white spirit burns well, not tried a ferro rod to light it though.

[ForgeCorvus]

Painters white spirit burns well, not tried a ferro rod to light it though.

Its also a petroleum product with everything that implies

[90.]

Ok 1st thing.. dont ever put accelerant onto a lit fire .. safety 1st, even diesel can flash when the liquid mists e.g caught & whipped in a breeze.
2nd thing. any solvent like IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) or acetone etc will destroy the rubber seals on most liquid spray bottles, the correct spray bottles for solvents cost a small fortune and still fail after a year or so of use.

I go through a draper spray bottle for degreaser at £30 a time every 8 months or so.

fuel should only be carried in a fuel bottle, be prepared.. safety 1st.!! a cheap spray or plastic bottle will fail and leak flamable liquid into your kit.

I speak from painful experience of 2 months rubbing flamazine burn cream on my face following a clown thowing an accelent onto a campfire.
cleared my acne up though..

dont mean to come over all preachy.. but it needed to be said.

regards
90.