Coleman lantern

This is a lone ago favorite pic of mine, My son with a Maine Lobstah, my 50 year old ashflash Lantern and Coleman Stove with American flag in background. Now this is what camping is all about! :C

Ashflash Lantern and Coleman Stove still going strong!

Mike

Still have a single mantle white gas Coleman but don't use it.

When I was a kid in the 50s & 60s, my parents had a cabin with no electricity and no telephone, running water and a stinky outhouse. Heat and cooking was a wood & coal stove. The municipality came by every year and oiled the gravel road. A totally different era.

In the earlier days, dad used kerosene lanterns. Not that bright, they smelled (I liked that tho.) and they emitted smoke if turned down low. Then dad got a couple of Coleman lanterns that used white gas. Things got a lot brighter after that! Played many many hours of checkers and cards under a Coleman lantern. I miss the hiss they made.

At some point in the 60s they brought power down our road and dad had a electrical service installed. No more lanterns after that. Last time I was up there, there's now residential subdivisions where there was just forest or summer cabins. Progress sucks. :(

suprz wrote:

Big Katuna wrote:

OkieGene wrote:
Oh yes!

I have a 2 mantle lantern and a 3 burner gas burner, both Coleman, that I bought in 1977 at Montgomery Wards.

I think the pump, or pump gaskets, may be shot. Any tips or advice to repair or replace?

Amazon. Coleman pump repair kit.

If the pump cup is made of leather, you can soak it in lightweight oil 3in 1 or reg motor oil and made the leather supple again, and the pump will work again

Needsfoot oil works best for that.

I have a collection (wrong, it is an accumulation) of old red single mantles. Both High top and low top. I like the single mantles as there are only half as many mantles to replace.
All have installed lighters and half have a safe on the bottom.
We also have a two burner stove that has cooked so many memories that I could not sell it to a collector that offered my money for it. I did guaranty him right of first refusal.
I say it is an accumulation because a collector collects to have special models and numbers. Mine were just got a garage sales and one was because I forgot that I had three.

I keep them because they work when the electric lights go out. You can keep a can of fuel almost indefinitely, but but batteries have a shelf life.

Mattt

Big Katuna wrote:

OkieGene wrote:
Oh yes!

I have a 2 mantle lantern and a 3 burner gas burner, both Coleman, that I bought in 1977 at Montgomery Wards.

I think the pump, or pump gaskets, may be shot. Any tips or advice to repair or replace?

Amazon. Coleman pump repair kit.

If the pump cup is made of leather, you can soak it in lightweight oil 3in 1 or reg motor oil and made the leather supple again, and the pump will work again

I have one and a Lantern stand. I do not use it at this time but I did a few year ago ... The reason I don't use it so much is I'm more an "Indoor" type even though I like the outdoors.. Hoping to team up with another RVer this summer and may have to break it out more often..

OkieGene wrote:
Oh yes!

I have a 2 mantle lantern and a 3 burner gas burner, both Coleman, that I bought in 1977 at Montgomery Wards.

I think the pump, or pump gaskets, may be shot. Any tips or advice to repair or replace?

Amazon. Coleman pump repair kit.

Oh yes!

I have a 2 mantle lantern and a 3 burner gas burner, both Coleman, that I bought in 1977 at Montgomery Wards.

I think the pump, or pump gaskets, may be shot. Any tips or advice to repair or replace?

I still have a single mantle, liquid gas type Coleman that is no longer serviceable but I still keep it.

For ambient CG light I use a much older style kerosene/tiki fuel type lantern. It seems to discourage the bugs. The LEDs & propane lanterns attract bugs along with lighting up the entire state.

SidecarFlip wrote:

RoyB wrote:
I still have a couple of them around - They sure are too bright to use a campgrounds however... Always brings in a crowd asking what the bright light is all about haha...

I use them mostly when camping off grid including tent camping... I also have a couple of those hanging lanterns that I like to hang in a tree on both ends of the camp site. These get turned down real low and burn all night... They will cast a shadow on the tent when things go past them...

Now they have come out with the pull out hanging lanterns that are battery powered that runs all night...

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Roy Ken

Never had an issue with my pressurized gas lantern, easy to turn down to just a glow (turn the knob) and runs all night no issue. In fact will run all day and all night if I forget to turn it off.

A gallon of coleman fuel is a lot cheaper than a bunch of batteries that when shot, take up landfill space. The new ones run on coleman fuel or unleaded pump gas as well.

A good used single mantle 200A will burn reg unleaded pump gas in a pinch, Just have to clean the generator tip more often. ;)

I have friends that love them and their Coleman Stove too. I'm not so sure about the whole pressurizing gasoline theory that they work using. But, I've never heard of one blowing up. And, I fill up at gas stations without shutting off my propane fridge so I live life on the wild side anyway. lol