The Coleman Thread (1 Viewer)

[Cruiserdrew]

All I have is a couple of crappy pics of my 236. It's very close to my BD lantern(1 month off), notice how the vent changed from Cam's. These lanterns are blindingly bright, fuel hogs and great in every way.

Dimmed here a bit for day light photos:

These are about the best it ever got for Coleman. All the parts, from the burner, the air tubes, the fount, the valve, even the support are brass. 500CP which is about the best they ever did with white gas. They got a tiny bit brighter with the 635 and some of the later Kerosene (which has more energy per ml than white gas), but they are crazy bright.

 

[Mace]

Want,,,

 

[FJ60Cam]

Want,,,

I know where you can get one for $45!

 

[Cruiserdrew]

View attachment 890295 View attachment 890296 A 502 from 1970 that looks to be in excellent condition showed up at a local consignment shop today. They want $50 for it, if anyone is interested I would be more than happy to pick it up for them.

This is actually quite interesting. Coleman was transitioning from the 3 piece to the 1 piece fuel cap right around here. This is an early 1 piece (and looks original to me). They used both this and the 3 piece through 1973. While the 3 piece is the better cap, that's still an early example of a 1 piece and thus, cool. I gotta say, I'd have bought that one, I'm glad I'm not close. Rusty_tlc was looking for a 502. I hope he sees this as I'd like to see it stay in the family.

 

[FJ60Cam]

That really is not a bad price at all IMO for a mint red-knobbed stove a case AND a handle.

 

[Mace]

Dig the CO2 powered coleman lantern.. Cool

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/for/4442761434.html

 

[Mace]

Over my $20 limit for a lantern unfortunately.

A man has to have his standards...

 

[Cruiserdrew]

So more than $20, but you get a parts safe($10), and an amber globe($20), plus the weird phallic CO2 thing, I'd say you should go and buy that for $30. And it comes with a generator ($10), and a stove ($20 on Craigs). I agree basically with the $20 rule, sometimes you need to be flexible.

 

[FJ60Cam]

That lantern does look rather excited!

 

[rusty_tlc]

Mace just do it. Sometimes you get stuff because of it's inherent odd value. The excited lantern is one of those times. I'd get it just because I use to shoot, wheel and ride dirt bikes where Green Valley is now.

 

[Mace]

Working on it

 

[shfd739]

Figured I'd add our new old stove to this.

Stove is a 425D and looks to be dated June 1965. My wife's grandmother passed away last summer(grandfather was one of those build/fix anything types and passed away in 2004) and we began cleaning out his workshop this year.

As soon as we saw the stove we claimed it. We're the only ones of the grandkids that camp and we both love older items that are still functional. I have a newer Coleman white gas stove that is used every camping trip.

So today I finally pulled this old stove out. It still had fuel in it (varnished gasoline), held pressure and fired right up with a nice blue flame. It's been at least 25 years since the stove was last used.

Ran it for a little then turned it off and dumped the tank. Inside the tank is rough and will need some cleaning-I need to research on that. Now I'm on the lookout for an older single burner stove and lanterns.

...via IH8MUD app

 

[Cruiserdrew]

Very nice. It was your grandfather's so that's just awesome.

I'd replace the cap gasket-not the cap, just the gasket. The old 3 piece caps are superior to the 1 piece caps.

Oil the pump leather-any light machine oil will do, though Neatsfoot is OEM spec.

You can clean out the tank with some MEK or Acetone and some steel sheet metal screws and then shake and shake to knock off the rust and crud. Then pour out the solvent, get teh screws out with a magnet, fill with gas and keep on using it.

 

[FJ60Cam]

My portfolio got a new acquisition today - a 6-61 500A single burner stove in excellent shape

The was one of the last ones made before the short lived 501s and the long-running 502.

At first glance it looks like the 502. Until you see them next to each other. This thing is huge!

Even though it is in super shape, it was not ready to run right out of the box. The PO never tried to use it. It looks like it was only used two or three times, so it was probably last used decades ago.

I replaced the cap gasket (seems to be standard procedure for me now), but it had a leaky check valve in the pump. So to get it to hold pressure, you have to tighten the pump with your thumb on the hole. I'll fix that later on, as I don't have the proper tool yet to extract the check valve.

I poured in what seemed like 5 gallons of fuel in the tank and took 'er outside to see if she'd fire.

It took it a minute to get the fuel flowing through its veins once again but it lit right up. Unlike the 502's with their small generator, these take a while to warm up the suitcase stove-sized generator. Once warmed up, I cranked it up to full blast. I was unimpressed. Until I pumped up the tank some more. 150 pumps later and I had full afterburner power . I guess it needs more pumping to fill that huge tank.

The flames were pure blue, the yellow is caused by it hitting the grate, which I quickly had glowing cherry red.

 

[rusty_tlc]

:homerdrool:
That baby would heat my big Wok to cherry red.

 

[FJ60Cam]

It would heat a very small part of your big wok cherry red.

HUGE grate. SMALL burner.

 

[Cruiserdrew]

It would heat a very small part of your big wok cherry red.

HUGE grate. SMALL burner.

These are huge 1 burner stoves, but not much, if any, more heat than a 502. Like the 502s they light easily and run perfectly with about 1 minute of pre-heat.

Dang, Cam, yours is practically new. Very nice it's the last production run of 500As in the US.

 

[FJ60Cam]

I think the yellow flame was the paint burning off

It had the faint smell of long ago evaporated fuel in the fount. But none of the metal had heat discoloration.

If it was run more than a few times, they sure didn't give it the extra 100 pumps!

 

[GLTHFJ60]

That's amazing. That thing is huge (that's what she said).

Nice score Cam!

 

[Mace]

$5 craigslist multifuel stove, $15 worth of pots, utensils and carry sacks from the sportsman wharehouse. Packs up beautifully to leave in the truck in case of emergency.