Coleman fuel

[IMERC]

BTW...
use a plastic gas tank to control the rust...

[jeffreythree]

I am glad to see this post.  Got a ~20 year old can of Coleman fuel, the price tag is on it and that company went out of business in the late '80's.  Another shows a price of $.98 from Walmart.  Both are half full.  I think the lantern and stove I got from my folks have not been used in that time either.  I heard it was just gasoline with no additives used in auto gas for lubrication and such since it just needs to vaporize and burn.  We shall see!

[DanG]

IMERC, I ain't sure how a plastic tank would work out on a Coleman stove.  Try it and get back to me, wouldya? ;) ;D

[IMERC]

Dan....
I was still in lawnmower mode...

[DanG]

I know, but you left yer chain hangin' out, so I pulled it. ;D  BTW, the new mower do have a fuel filter on it...one of them little ol' things bout the size of a quarter.

It was late on a chilly night, back in the early seventies, when I heard a strange bumping noise at the back door.  It was kinda like somebody knocking, but it was more of a muffled bumping noise than any kind of a real knock.  I went to the door and turned on the porch light, and there was my neighbor, Dick, standing there with his hands clasped together in front of his chest, in sort of a pleading gesture.  On his face was a sort of desperate half smile, half frowning expression.  Still curious about the bumping noise, I opened the door to see what the matter could be.  It was explained in a second, as he urgently announced, "I've glued my hands together!"  Right away I percieved that he had been banging on the door with his elbow, which was encased in the Army field jacket that he always wore in chilly weather.  With the mystery of the bumping noise now solved, I set about the business of learning just how the hell he managed to glue his hands together.  "Just how the hell did you manage to glue your hands together?" I asked.  He explained that he had been using the washing machine as a workbench to stick some formica to a little shelf he was making, and had a can of contact cement on the shelf above.  He had gotten a little clumsy, as was his normal way of doing things, and knocked the full quart of contact cement down onto the washing machine.  Acting quickly and without any forethought, as was also a habit with him, he began scraping the stuff up and wiping it back into the can with his bare hands.  He was mostly trying to save the washing machine, an effort which failed, and also tried to salvage some of the glue, which also failed.  Anyway, at some point he decided he'd better wipe the glue from his hands, so he started to rub them together, using one hand as sort of a squeegee for the other.  That little operation didn't last very long at all.  As soon as his right palm contacted the butt of his left thumb, his left fingers curled around the right wrist, the right fingers around the back of his left hand, his left thumb made contact with the base knuckle of his right index finger, and he was had.  His hands were joined with a connection that would have made the best of welders proud!  I was beginning to appreciate the desperate look he was wearing, by now.  This boy was in a melluva hess!  He went on to explain that his wife had tried every chemical they had in their house and garage, and nothing had helped, so she had sent him to my place to see if we might have more chemicals to try.  I ushered him through the dining room to the garage, and began opening bottles, jars and cans, and trying little bits of each one.  Nothing was even touching that stuff, and Dick was beginning to cry a little bit.  I was just hoping he didn't have to go to the bathroom!   After we had exhausted every possibility we could think of and he was about to head for the Emergency Room, I spied a can of Coleman Fuel in the corner.  As a last-ditch measure, I splashed a little of it on his hands, and PRAISE THE LORD it melted that glue right off of there!  I'll tell you, that was one happy camper as he washed the rest of that glue off and headed home with the can of Coleman Fuel to save his wife's washing machine!

Now I haven't had any Coleman Fuel around here in a long, long time, but I'll bet my last dime that Dick Bartels will never ever be without a can of it!  Maybe someday I'll tell you about the time Dick shot out the lights in his bedroom.  He sure was a fun neighbor!

[IMERC]

why can't I have neighbors like Dick...

[ErikC]

 I use the pressurized canisters in my stove and lantern both. They are a lot nicer. I had no regrets until I realized all the good experiences I am missing out on by not using white gas instead.....

[IMERC]

IMERC, I ain't sure how a plastic tank would work out on a Coleman stove.  Try it and get back to me, wouldya? ;) ;D

you know I didn't wanna admit that I was asleep at the wheel....

[gary]

I use unleaded gas on a regular basis in my coleman stove and lanterns. I did switch to coleman fuel for a short time. But when you use 10 gallons of fuel a year the savings by using gas offsets the price off a generator. I priced coleman fuel at walmart last month $8.00 a gallon.

[Tom]

Gary,
The price and convenience is what had us using Amoco White in the '60's.   We fished all of the time, almost every night. We would hang one or two coleman lanterns over the side of the bridge and burn them for 8 to 12 hours a night.  That was when coleman fuel was three dollars a can while the white gas was about 36¢.  It sure made sense to us.  :D

You wouldn't believe the mass of bait that a coleman lantern, hung about a foot or two above the surface, will draw... and the bigger fish that will swoop through now and again to get some, and a bigger fish that laid in wait just outside of the doughnut of light to make a run at the swooping fish.  A big cane pole, baited with a 8" or 10" mullet might find you with a 20 lb Snook hooked on the other end and a pretty straight-line tug right to your hands.

[DanG]

Yeah, a little simple kacklatin' will tell ya that 10 gallons/year at a $6 price difference will buy you a new stove every year, too.

[andytree]

  HI LEEB    use 3in1 oil on leather don`t have che  work it around will come back to life           try gas in lantern don`t work  old fuel will  work
don`t make lot heat