D & M wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
I thought the fuel for those Coleman lanterns was more like kerosene then gas. I don't own one, obviously. But, I have seen them work. If there powered by gas then I think they look dangerous just by themselves. After all you have to pump them up to compress the canister. Looks like a bomb waiting to happened to me.
Nooo. not kerosene. It's highly flammable naphtha.
True. And in the days of leaded gasoline, it also referred to unleaded gasoline.
We had a coleman stove that burned white gas. It would burn either unleaded gasoline, or the naphtha based Coleman Fuel.
