Recent content by williaty

The same lantern has been labeled as "The Adjustable", "The CLX", and "The Powerhouse" (I believe in that order chronologically) while being model #290 the whole time. In fact, as far as I can tell, the remaining "Dual Fuel" labeled lantern, model #295, is identical except for the font being...

I just looked back and saw you're working with one of the modern lanterns with the plastic fuel-air tube. They will not burn stable without a COMPLETELY full tank on lightup. I fought this myself until I realized that all the older (pre-CL/Adjustable era) lanterns with the metal fuel-air...

Pulsing like that can be insufficinet fuel in the font, insufficient pressure in the font, or a dirty generator. Fill it up till it leaks out its hole, pump it up until your thumb's too weak, and then if it still pulses replace the generator. Is the shaft on the left pump stem threaded on the...

I'm a heathen and pour in brake cleaner. The good stuff that's illegal in 49 states and the EU. The one with the terrible warnings about me getting cancer and my kids having 3 eyes on the can. I find that takes most anything out if you swish it around for a while.

I see people in their 30s-40s saying "Hey, I have an LED light and it works but I remember these green lanterns my parents used when I was growing up. What are they and where can I get one?" Those same people are back shortly after happy as a clam because they paid nostalgia pricing to get a...

Welcome to 2022. The huge upswing in the number of people trying camping and the fact that liquid-fuel Coleman stuff has become HUGELY collectible in Japan has pushed prices sky high and they're still rising. If you shop garage sales long enough, you'll eventually find one at more historically...

Petromax. Veeeeery different lanterns than Colemans. Way back in the day, when they were actually made in Germany exclusively, they were good enough and safe enough. Now, just the trademark is licensed and they're made god knows where. The US licensee of the trademark is BriteLyte and they're...

$75 is low-ish but not brag-worthy from a dealer assuming it's in excellent condition. If you work around long enough, you'll probably find one on Craigslist for $25-$35 but you might wait a year or so for a deal like that.

The 228s are known as the "big hat" models. The vent has a wide brim that's coated white on the underside to help with throwing light down if you want to set it on a table or hang it above one. They're really a lot nicer for that sort of use than the "normal" models like the 220s. Not only do...

Actually, the mostly just came up with reasons it wasn't valid in order to fit their pet theories. A few were pretty appreciative, but far from all.

There has been some contention about lantern mantles. Rather than trusting everything I read on the internet, I decided to put my money where my questions were and buy one of everything and figure out the truth behind the marketing and the old wives' tales. My personal background to this is...

The thing is, Peerless isn't Peerless anymore. I found some at the hardware store and was really disappointed at how dim and yellow-red they were compared to their reputation. In fact, they were worse than current production cheap Coleman mantles from Walmart. I sent them to a safety lab at the...

I've got a 220F in pieces sitting around the workshop right now. All the brass bits are cleaned and ready to reassemble and so is the font but the frame is stewing in Evaporust. I put it in yesterday before dinner and plan on taking it out sometime tomorrow afternoon. I'm hoping for a quick...

Well, linking to the image on Imgur didn't work here, so lets try that again.

Yesterday's restoration project, a 200K