Coleman White Gas stoves

[Sanders]

I pulled one out yesterday, just to see if I could make it work again. I sprayed down the leather plunger with some Ballistol and worked it for a bit until it started pumping up the pressure in the fuel tank. After about 50 pumps, I lit that bad boy up and it fired up just fine. I bet the fuel in the tank is around 30 yrs. old. Didn't even smoke, like I thought old fuel might. It's one of the big stoves, too - I have a griddle for it and it will take a big frying pan just fine.

Think I'll cook dinner on it tonight - some chicken-fried steak and homemade french fries fried in beef tallow and some white gravy.

Been spoiled using propane and butane stoves. Then, when I rough it, I have a couple little wood burners or just toss a piece of expanded metal on some rocks over a campfire. Poor white gas stoves were neglected and ignored. I have a smaller 2 burner version and a single burner that needs a new generator, I think I'll pull out and mess with, too.

[10-32]

Reminds me of trips to the deer cabin way up north in Wisconsin on the Chippewa river as a kid. Coleman stove and cast iron pans. Also lamps with the mantles.
image.png

[mrkalashnikov]

My dad owned a couple of those Coleman lanterns we used for camping when I was a kid. He always kept a small can of white gas in the garage for them. For some reason he put that white gas in our ancient Briggs & Stratton reel mower too.

[aviator]

I had one of those Coleman lanterns just like the one 10-32 posted, after 50 some years it was so bad I couldn't get it to work, I even got some parts and mantles off the internet. Wound up in the garbage. LED lights are way more efficient and economical. I also have a couple of small table top gas burners my wife bought for emergencies and a few gas cylinders that are probably empty after sitting around for 24 years.

Tell you what though, the lantern was used during Hurricane Andrew, last time I Used it.

[10-32]

Yeah ancient technology compared with LED but they smelled good.