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Repairing old Coleman Lanterns
Posted on 3/26/15 at 7:14 pm
Posted on 3/26/15 at 7:14 pm
I was in my dads ( who passed away two years ago) shop and noticed a couple of his old lanterns sitting on a shelf. It got me to thinking about the times when I was about 9 or 10 years old and sitting on a creek bank night fishing with my dad. Later on when I was 16 me and a couple of buddies used them camping out and sneaking a few beers. 
I decided to bring them home and clean them up. Ended up taking the generators apart and cleaning them and also changed the old leather washers in the pumps. One of them was a kerosene model that you had to pour alcohol into a little cup and burn the alcohol off to preheat it so the kerosene would light easier.
When I put the new mantles in them they both fired up pretty quickly. It is weird how the burning gas smell can bring back so many memories. I emptied out the fuel and have them on a shelf in my house now.
The one on the left is burning Coleman fuel the other one is burning kerosene.
I decided to bring them home and clean them up. Ended up taking the generators apart and cleaning them and also changed the old leather washers in the pumps. One of them was a kerosene model that you had to pour alcohol into a little cup and burn the alcohol off to preheat it so the kerosene would light easier.
When I put the new mantles in them they both fired up pretty quickly. It is weird how the burning gas smell can bring back so many memories. I emptied out the fuel and have them on a shelf in my house now.
The one on the left is burning Coleman fuel the other one is burning kerosene.
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Posted on 3/26/15 at 7:25 pm to highcotton2
Still have a couple. Used them when power goes out all the time. 
Way back in the day gigging many a flounders under the light was great.
Way back in the day gigging many a flounders under the light was great.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 7:26 pm to highcotton2
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It is weird how the burning gas smell can bring back so many memories.
Without a doubt. Good memories.
I have one in a box from the 70's and have no clue what to do with it.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 7:27 pm to highcotton2
I've got several laying around the from when I was in scouts
I'm too stupid now to get them working properly...are those things worth anything if I were sale them?
I'm too stupid now to get them working properly...are those things worth anything if I were sale them?
Posted on 3/26/15 at 7:36 pm to Walt OReilly
I noticed that there were a couple of models on eBay that people has run the bid up to $200 for. Apparently a lot of them go to collectors in Japan.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:01 pm to highcotton2
They are surprisingly loud.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:45 pm to highcotton2
Where did you get new leather for the pump? I have one I need to repair.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:30 pm to weagle99
I ordered the leather off eBay. Walmart sells a kit that is rubber and plastic.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:36 pm to highcotton2
I got mine in the garage, fired right up a couple months ago. Found a can of fuel in there as well.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:44 pm to highcotton2
I don't know that I have ever seen one that old...cool as hell!
I did basically the same thing a couple of years ago at my mom's house and got all of my old camping stuff out in anticipation of some bad weather...took a little bit of work, but I got it all working perfectly...
absolutely true...the minute I fired it up, it totally brought me back to the days of sitting around at the hunting camp with family members who passed long ago...
I did basically the same thing a couple of years ago at my mom's house and got all of my old camping stuff out in anticipation of some bad weather...took a little bit of work, but I got it all working perfectly...
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It is weird how the burning gas smell can bring back so many memories.
absolutely true...the minute I fired it up, it totally brought me back to the days of sitting around at the hunting camp with family members who passed long ago...
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:04 pm to highcotton2
Thanks.
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