Coleman Camp Stoves
 

Need some help here, have heard that the old Coleman camp stoves will work ok with just unleaded gas like we buy for our cars, some folks dispute this and can't seem to find out for sure, I'm certain it will work, but some seem to think it wll plug up or something, which doesn't make sense to me as the same gas we use in our newer autos have very finicky fuel injection systems that would surely plug up long before a Coleman stove would. Does any one have any definate info? has any one tried it? If not I guess I'll have to do a myth buster segment on my own here. Any one?

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My new one also works with unleaded. No problems and it hasn't clogged.

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Heres the skinny; when I lived in my vehicle and on the river and in the woods i used them for cooking and heating.

I was dumpster diving and mining gold when it was 250$ an ounce and making 20$ a DWT for my river gold nuggets.

so i put unleaded in it and ran it all the time.

Inside is what they call the 'generator; it gets fouled, Unscrew it and spray it with brakecleaner. Be sure not to bend it AT ALL , otherwise you wont ever get a clean blue flame again.

Go to a sporting goods store and buy few extra generators .

If you do it right there is no reason to pay 3$ a gallon for coleman fuel.


Oh the good old days...................MONEY CORRUPTS CHARACTER AND ......

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I've heard its a little smokier, Don't know for sure. NuggetHunters experience beats my retold tales I'd go with it.

E-A

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Thanks Kahlil and nuggethunter, ditto Electric amish.

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if you didn't buy a stove yet, an MSR stove is top of the line - will run on all fuels.
http://www.msrcorp.com/stoves/

http://moontrail.com/stoves/msr_dragonfly.html

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I've used un-leaded in my Coleman stove for years. Never a problem. I always understood that "White Gas" was really just unleaded anyway.
I do less Jeep camping and more backpacking, so I've switched to a small propane stove.

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Nuggethunter's suggestion to keep an extra generator is good advice. They sell 'em right next to the stoves and they cost around $6.

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Does anyone know if you can use coleman fuel in a kerosene lantern?

I've got a lantern that says "kerosene only". Was wondering if it would be safe to try it with coleman fuel or something similar.

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QWAK,I have two colman stoves and the instructions on both said "USE ONLY UNLEADED GASOLEAN or COLMAN FUEL"!

It is the LEAD that foules the generator!

BTW: Industrial welding O2 is as pure or more that the O2 they sell to hospital supply stores and is a whole bunch cheeper TOO!

For ZIPPO lighters use "NAPTHA" you should be able to get a gallon for about what an 8 oz. container of "official" ZIPPO fuel costs!

It is sort of like generic drugs many things cost a lot more due to the name on the container and that is what people THROW AWAY! LOL

the DUCK

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QWAK,Only IF you want to BURN your house down!!!!:haha:

the DUCK

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No. Kerosene has a slower burn rate. Gasoline, or Coleman fuel, is really explosive. If you use it in your Kerosene lantern, you may just be building a Molotov Cocktail. Ouch!

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That's kind of what I thought all along, but wasn't sure, I know alot of the things we buy as generic are the same as name brands only under a different label,and knew leaded gas was a definate no no. Many years ago i used to haul gasoline for a family owned chain of gas stations in Colorado under the Diamond Shamrock banner, while there was a Diamond Shamrock tank farm in Denver, we bought from many different sources other than Diamond Shamrock, pulled it out of Asamara's refinery, Conoco's refinery and texaco's tank farm and know for sure that often when one tank farm came up short before their pipeline allotment was due they would often purchase from anothers tank farm, but I could never get some folks to understand that the gasoline you bought basically was the same no matter where you bought it from, the only difference that I found was that Chevron also bought from cheapest source but carried their own Techron additive that the driver would add to the tank while loading. Try and convince some folks to those facts was next to impossible,and I stopped trying.

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FWIW, there is a propane option you can add to coleman stoves that replaces the gas tank. It's about $20US and there may be times to prefer one instead of the other.

Google it, I think it's "Century" brand.

TS

PS, never heard any difference in coleman and unleaded, but unless you want 1st degree burns don't cross kero with petrol.