Coleman lantern -- white gas?
Soon I need to buy a container of white gas at Walmart. I haven't check price but in the past their price is crazy. Many moons ago I remember when i was a boy, Dad stopped by gas station to fill up wh...
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Neither my coleman lanterns or my Coleman stove was designed to run on Coleman Fuel. There was no such thing in 1959 and 1961. They were designed to run on gasoline. It was sold as White Gas. Nowadays it is sold as unleaded.
That said I run mine on the naptha fuel sold as Coleman Liquid fuel.
I have used pump gas when I have run out,but the Naptha does not stink as bad.
"white gas" sold by service stations of old was in fact naptha fuel. Unleaded gas is NOT naptha! Unleaded gas is called unleaded because it does not use (the now outlawed)lead as an anti-knock additive but it does have a number of other additives for ICEs.
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