Washington State Walmart Camper blows himself up

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Deleted and biting my tongue lest a moderator ban me permanently.

Jeeze, another hasty conclusion. I'm slower with mine but one is forming up nicely.

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.

Actually, according to the MSDS, it is:

INGREDIENT NAME, CAS #, EXPOSURE LIMITS, PERCENT BY VOLUME
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hydrotreated Light Distillate, C
AS # 68410-97-9, OSHA-500 ppm, 100.0
This product contains:
*Cyclohexane, CAS # 110-82-7,
OSHA-300 ppm, ACGIH-300 ppm
*Nonane, CAS # 111-84-2, ACGIH-200 ppm
*Octane, CAS # 111-65-9, OSHA-400 ppm, ACGIH-300 ppm
*Heptane, CAS # 142-82-5, OSHA-500 ppm, ACGIH-400 ppm
*Pentane, CAS # 109-66-0, OSHA-1000 ppm, ACGIH-600 ppm

See it all here:

http://www.coleman.com/uploadedFiles/Content/Customer_Support/Safety/lantern.pdf

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.

Steve S wrote:

Raften wrote:

Steve S wrote:
Wow this guy sure was a slob! I would vote no on a meth lab, more like a washed up hippie that was stoned and careless.

Amazing, sees a picture and quickly decides the owner was a slob and washed up hippy.

So you're saying that you live like this in your rv and you have loads of******in there that makes you look like a homeless bum?
I guess to each their own but I like my place clean with no fire hazards.

I would think that an explosion like this would rearrange you stuff.

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.

Dick 641 wrote:

greenrvgreen wrote:
This thread really belongs in the "Boondocking" forum . . .

Why, he could of just stopped before or after a trip nothing was said about him staying there

I posted in "General RVing" because I thought it was less about siting than about something that could happen to an RVer anywhere if conditions are right.

Raften wrote:

Steve S wrote:
Wow this guy sure was a slob! I would vote no on a meth lab, more like a washed up hippie that was stoned and careless.

Amazing, sees a picture and quickly decides the owner was a slob and washed up hippy.

So you're saying that you live like this in your rv and you have loads of******in there that makes you look like a homeless bum?
I guess to each their own but I like my place clean with no fire hazards.

greenrvgreen wrote:
This thread really belongs in the "Boondocking" forum . . .

I was thinking in the boomdocking section. :B

Steve S wrote:
Wow this guy sure was a slob! I would vote no on a meth lab, more like a washed up hippie that was stoned and careless.

Amazing, sees a picture and quickly decides the owner was a slob and washed up hippy.