So I've got this Mitsubishi PMC3 kit from 15 years ago that I'd bought for KMP/T since she did jewelry at one point. Before I could get it to her, she moved to Kansai, which I rarely go to, and since the package is fragile, didn't want to mail it. Now as an assistant prof with two kids, she doesn't have time to mess. It occurred to me to give the kit to JFJ's daughter, but 1) the instructions are in Japanese, and 2) the fuel disks are hard to come by in the U.S. There's another "hot pot" kit that uses a clay pot filled with some sort of liquid fuel, but I can't find that for sale. Things always get more complicated than I otherwise think they should be.
Mitsubishi has a page on the PMC series, but conspicuously don't mention any of the kits that they used to produce! At least there's some English instructions on the page. The Japanese page links to several other pages, including to a neat fan page, 「ギンダラケ倶楽部」. Another site, silver-clay.com, has a number of the PMC materials for sale, as does Amazon. It seems to be about 3x the cost of the base metal, at least for silver. The only place I found online that sells the fuel tabs is "Best from Japan", which ships from Japan and doesn't have the item in stock. Shipping is of course either SAL, with a huge lead time, or EMS, with a huge price tag.
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