Measuring Cups

If it's what I think you mean, all liquid children's medicines (and probably most adult liquid medicine) come with measuring cups, either in ounces or milligrams. Check the dosage for what the cup will be labeled.

You could always buy a bottle of the cheapest in-store brand of cough syrup or better yet, ask a pharmacy for some free ones.

I went to a pharmacy and asked. They gave me one.

Rather than use cups, you might consider the graduated 8oz flip top bottle Vargo sells. They weigh one ounce and dont leak No cups to loose,no spilled fuel and the graduated bottle gives you a handle on your total fuel supply.

Most online gear dealers sell them for about $ 2.50 and they make a good filler item for a larger order.
To me, they are about the most useful thing Vargo sells.

It's not the question you asked, but why not just mark your alcohol stove. at where an Oz fill is. Marks won't work, you can always hit it with a screw driver/hammer. That'll help you by removing 1 more object you could loose/break (plastic measuring cup).

Don't worry about justifying your reasoning. It's just for your consideration. :)

Marks are great. I can see down the top of my stove, so I put scratch marks at 15 and 25 ml fill lines. Easier than filling the dosing cup and pouring it in, and packing the delicate little dosing cups is a pain.

Thanks for all the replies guys. I really appreciate all of the help. I like to use the small measuring cups when stove testing at home but use the graduated fuel bottles when out on the trail. Plus I use either a Starlyte or QiWiz alcohol stove so I can't mark my stove. If I was using a bottle stove or something like that though I would as that seems like the easiest method. But I've been doing a lot of DIY stuff though recently that the small cups would come in handy so thanks for the link and I'll check my local pharmacy as well.

Take the small roughly one ounce condiment containers, places like taco trucks give you the salsa in them, they have flimsy lids usually, and then carefully measure out water with something accurate, and draw lines outside the cup, then take the lines, sharpie, whatever, and use nail polish to mark the measurement lines after you dump out the water.

I use 2.5 ml marks, with longer marks every 5 ml.

These are stronger than the medicine things, and easier to read. Nail polish is durable and sticks well to the plastic of the cup. I bought a bulk pack of the medicine ones, but I like the food truck ones better, they are stronger.

They aren't hard to pack, they go in with the stove in the pot. I like having the marks because sometimes you just need 2.5 ml more to finish something off, that requires, of course, a good stove that's easy to start and fill, like the CHS.

Nail polish, in several layers, is also a good way to paint the heads of ti stakes, bright colors, easy to spot. Several coats, let dry a few days.

Hint: cheap nail polish comes in the right colors, the garish stuff, bright fluorescent yellow, lime, orange. those three colors work well. I found those at the fleamarket, $1 a bottle, right next to the cheesy bracelets and baubles, lol.

There is also glow in the dark nail polish available in assorted colors. Be sure to see your fuel level and stakes at night!

http://coolglow.com/~/?type=Makeup+and+tattoos|Nail+polish&feature=Glow+In+The+Dark&cgfid=dHlwZT0xMDIlN0MyNTgmZmVhdHVyZT0xMzc=

The True Value hardware store in my rural Southwestern town sells some vet supplies for cattle and horses. There are plastic syringes sold separately from the needles. The syringes are 20 and 35 cc/milliliters, with extra but unmarked space in the top for the plunger. The 20s were four for about five dollars.

I expect to carry one until I am more familiar with what fuel loads suit my needs. I discarded the plunger, ground the ears off of the syringe to save weight, so it is now at 6 grams. Tried glue on the exit hole, but it didn't stick to the plastic. Poured the glue into a straw to direct the glue inside the syringe.

Take the small roughly one ounce condiment containers, places like taco trucks give you the salsa in them, they have flimsy lids usually, and then carefully measure out water with something accurate, and draw lines outside the cup, then take the lines, sharpie, whatever, and use nail polish to mark the measurement lines after you dump out the water.

Are you painting the nail polish inside the cup?

I haven't tried it myself, but I read that denatured alcohol can be used to remove nail polish.

No, the outside, I have an accurate measuring device, a cylinder thing, and I used that to mark the 2.5 ml intervals, outside, with a sharpie, then I emptied the water, and marked the lines with nail polish. I like yellow, it stands out really well. I find the medicine cup ones are really hard to read, almost impossible without a light for me, though you could paint those too, but they are far more flexible than the condiment cups, which have a rim and are stiffer overall.

I know I prefer this because I never brought along any of the official medicine versions, since they are softer and harder to read, even though I bought a stack of them at a medical supply place, was cheap.

The hardest part of nailpolish is getting the lines thin, but it honestly doesn't matter, at 2.5 ml marking, you just shoot to get the line in the middle of where the sharpie mark next to it is, and that's quite accurate.

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I forgot, I did it so it's 2.5 ml, which is the smallest useful unit for an efficient alcohol stove, and in increments of 7.5 ml, those are the big lines, so it's 7.5, 15, and 22.5 ml on the big lines.

I thought the sharpie lines would come off, but they didn't, since I don't pour alcohol on the outside I guess or something. Sharpie comes off plastic with alcohol though if you wipe it off.

Glow in the dark nail polish sounds cool, hard to resist that suggestion, though as most of us may recall from watching our watches fade away at night, the stuff doesn't really glow in the dark that long after exposure to light, but it's still a cool idea.

As an aside, I first used a syringe to create the ml lines, but when I got a real measuring chemisty graduated cylinder (20ml I think), which are extremely accurate to the ml, I found that the syringe ml markings were about 10% off, +10%, which was annoying because I'd been shooting for a certain stove efficiency and couldn't figure out why I wasn't hitting it, and I'd actually been hitting it all along but didn't know it because the measurements were wrong. I think that's from the bit of extra volume at the plunger end of the syringe or something, not sure.

I have a bajillion from the pharmacy. You can ask for many styles as well…..