USFS Secret: Diesel Lantern Hack for Blackouts & Emergencies
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- Discover a forgotten US Forest Service secret: how to light a Coleman lantern using kerosene! This quick tutorial will guide you through the steps to get your lantern glowing bright. While diesel theoretically can be used, we'll highlight the potential pitfalls and advise why it's not recommended. Always prioritize safety first!
Sequence:
Ensure the lantern is clean and free of debris.
Fill the tank with kerosene, not exceeding the fill line.
Pump the lantern to build pressure.
Light the mantles carefully, adjusting the valve for the right flame.
Disclaimer: Using diesel can cause clogging and other issues. This video is for educational purposes only; always follow manufacturer guidelines.
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Seriously my algorithm hasn't had you in months
think about why, fellow patriot
I was pretty happy about it and here we are again
Same. They're definitely making sure we don't see certain things
@@harrymeanwell1462why is that ?
Same here was thinking the same thing
58 years ago I learned a valuable lesson that still is applicalbe today. NEVER place your hand on the very top to sturdy the lamp while pumping up the plunger. 😂
Thanks for that advice 😂
wait what happened, did you burn the heck out of your hand?
@@garstrum4401 Yes indeed. I was told in the dark to grab the lantern and pump it up. I had never seen one before and was 9 years old. The man said don't let it fall over and don't let it shake or the mantel will break.
As a kid who grew up with these...
ouch. O^O
Or touch that little brass nob on top it niether. 😢
I grew up camping with my dad with a Coleman lantern. I can still remember my dad cursing at the dang thing every time he needed to replace the mantles. Also I never remember him using that cup. He always got it going with a single match and lifting the glass just a crack from the bottom. Good to finally know what it’s for though. Miss you old man!
Probably a white gas unit he used
😮
Oh how my dad cussed when that ashed mantle broke. 😅
@@felixmikkialmosttoasted3911100 percent white gas or Coleman fuel. The one from the video is very uncommon
@@felixmikkialmosttoasted3911How different are white gas, kerosene and diesel? My current understanding is that all three of them are actually just different versions of the same thing, and it's all about the "toxic" fumes, smell, cleanliness etc. Is that right? I've only got a kerosene heater so not much of experience with them things. I've heard that some stoves can run on any of this category of fuel but others not really (something about fuel lube getting blocked) ?? Any info/advice welcome, thanks.
I can smell that lantern through the screen. Nothing in the world beats that smell. It always reminds me of summer nights fishing and camping. Very nostalgic for me.
This is the lantern my dad would bring camping when I was a kid, it's a very distinct sent.
I was thinking something similar. Growing up I was in the boy scouts and our troop had a couple of these old lanterns. They do have a very distinct smell now that you've reminded me of it. And yes, I can smell it from memory alone too!
For me it was the little cup that you fill with rubbing alcohol that I remembered the most. We also had some cooking stoves that worked in a similar way.
You reminded me of the incredible childhood memories of summer holidays at a shack in SW Western Australia in the 60's. We also had a kerosene fridge. Spear fished every day and had fish twice per day for meals. Wonderful days. No power. Just family and fire. Wood-fired stove
Indeed
LOVE THE SMELL
Lantern lessons with the wood burning stove in the background…….. as the snow falls outside. The ambiance is incredible.
It’s a tv in the background lol
Lmao I didn’t even notice but it looks like you’re right🤣
**pants down by ankles** 😂
@@jimmy4x4socal44 he literally has a video of him cleaning the glass of said furnace
@@joncox4699 I think they're talking about the snow scenery.
My dad used to have a Coleman lantern he would take with us on camping trips. He died about 8 years ago and this is a welcome reminder of some of the good times we had
Same! I remember him tying those little mesh bags into the stems and lighting it up. Was always such a relaxing process.
@@JC-zv3bbthose damn sacks.😅
Yea I grew up camping with those things and the stoves.
I was a scoutmaster for 10 years with my son’s troop. Had some great weekends camping, canoeing, and just enjoying the outdoors. The one constant was the woosh of Coleman lanterns at night. Just that sound brings back great memories.
Same here except I was the scout and my dad was a leader. I’m 42 and too this day, I still fire up a lantern throughout the fall….just for the memories that woosh brings back.
Yep. I'm 41 and one of my earliest memories is tagging along with my dad for hunts at deer camp. I was too young to hunt, but at the end of the day I was exhausted and I remember him lighting these up as I was getting in my sleeping bag. This simple light source made me feel safe as a little kid.
Coleman lanterns? I still use old kerosine lantern with fuse:)
They act like 2000 years old oil lamp.
I love that sound. But for me it was countless fishing trips with my dad and then when I was old enough to go on my own. Then it was me and my son going on trips.
We still hear it now and then. Every time our power goes out.
I have 2 of them my father in law passed this June and before he died he gave me all of his old camping equipment. He also worked for the Power Company for 25 years and served his country in the Coast Guard for 8.
He passed at home surrounded by his family. He was the best man I ever knew and had the privilege to be part of his family. Richard “Skip” you are what American men are supposed to be.
87 years wasn’t enough.
I have to say that he was a real man,father and husband.
You are missed every day.
You, your wife, the kids, and prayerfully his grandkids are a living testimony to his love and service. Blessings
Sorry for your loss. Words aren't enough.
Are you a family member of mine… sounds like my grampa But he actually worked for Bell.
When he moved from new york to seattle he still had a bunch of property out in the middle of nowhere over there. Someone convinced him to sell it. Singe random no mans land called the Hamptons ? He said it was really nice. None around to bother you Just nature.
Awesome
I didn't know this
I have several old coleman lanterns
Sounds like an awesome guy and apparently he thought you were as well.
My father used both a dual fuel Coleman lantern & stove in Iraq when deployed for Desert Sheild/Storm. He was an Chinook pilot. As part of pre-flight checks, there was a cup used to get a small amount of fuel (about 3/4 of a measured cup) out of the chopper to visually inspect it. Normally they would discard that bit of fuel, but he had a stainless steel Thermos type thing he'd pour it in. Since aircraft fuel is just a high grade kerosene, he'd use it in his Coleman lantern, and stove. He was always so happy he'd never have to buy those Coleman fuel containers.
And lead poisioning.😅
Nice did you guys get together and talk about how he went to a Third World country to bomb people in their homes???
@@justsoicanfingcomment5814no lead in JP-4 jet fuel, the fuel of choice for Army gas turbine aircraft.
@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 There's no lead in JP-8, which they would have been using.
He was checking for debris in the fuel and the Navy does this mostly they are checking for water and debris in the fuel and the samples are taken from the lowest point in each fuel tank. Aviation fuel on aircraft carriers has water in it also which is heavier than fuel. Water is added to the fuel tanks on carriers as ballast.
Take the sample and twirl the glass container around to see if any debris is in the fuel tank let it sit a moment to look for water at the bottom.
I love the fact that he just sneaks in there;".... maybe even diesel..." is almost like having a pump action shotgun and sneaking in;".... well if you were to accidentally lose the plug somewhere...." Protect this man at all costs!!!🤗
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He said that because kerosene and diesel have flashpoints that are very close. For all intensive purposes, they can be interchangeable. Kerosene is basically super clean diesel. US Navy started using jet fuel(which is mostly kerosene) in their diesel powered equipment years ago because it burns cleaner, less maintenance on diesel engines, fuel filters last longer, and saves storage space.
@@SantaKrauseI’m so sorry, but the phrase would be, “For all intents and purposes…”
@@Mattryanfisher Did you understand the point I was trying to make? Thank you grammar police. Bye bye 👋
@@SantaKrause They were right though. You really want to just keep saying it wrong forever? Just thank them and remember the advice. I don't understand why some people treat ignorance like a virtue and seem allergic to learning.
Yes, between 60 and 65 years ago, my dad had two or three of these lanterns. Brings back old, pleasant memories. Thank you.
Brings back memories of mom and dad taking us camping in the 60s and 70s. Awesome.
My fiancé laughed when I brought home a parrafin lamp two years ago. Then, as soon as the first winter storm hit and we lost power, she understood.
About two months ago, we lost power in another storm. Between my paraffin lamp and all her candles, the house looked magical.
That’s super romantic lmao
I bet that you still couldn't watch youtube tho.
@@daciefusjones8128!!!! Silence, Peasant!!
If you live in very cold temperatures, consider getting some spare wicks and a small stash of kerosene. The paraffin is great till it solidifies from the cold. I love my oil lamps, great call bringing one home.
Spare wicks because they say once a wick had been used on paraffin it won't wick the kerosene properly, but I do not have first hand experience in trying wicks from one fuel to another. Just information I have read.
Still have my Coleman. Love that hissing sound it makes.
These lanterns have the absolute best ambiance and color temperature.
And smell. I love the smell of the kerosene lamp.
And sound. Somebody called it 'hiss therapy'. :)
We been using these my whole life. Never gets old ..
Mine is 70 years old, from when my family went camping when I was a kid. Still works, and I prefer it over modern innovations. The sound and the light quality are very comforting.
Does it operate exactly like this video or are there subtle differences?
@@southerncharity7928a few minor differences, essentially the same
Thank you for never changing the background music. It fits these videos so so well!
I operated an asphalt distributor in the army and we had a diesel blow torch to melt asphalt off the spray bar. It consisted of a hooded tray with copper tube coil bend in on itself and the nozzle came out the opposite side. You put some fluid in the tray set it on fire and it would preheat the diesel before the pressure vessel sprayed it out. Worked really well.
My favorite TH-cam channel without a doubt. The algorithm isn't doing you any favors. Show's you how the world is worrying today.
My son (28 ) has at least 80 Colman Lanterns going back to the 20’s . I have about 7 or 8 which most were given to me by him as they were newer ones but he will take up to eight of his when we go camping and fishing down on the Missouri River . He makes some cool ones by taking the lamp founts and a regular upper and custom paints them and new and custom stickers .
Those were the days. Technology has its benefits but simplicity has its own beauty in this overly complex world.
The love I have for these beautiful light giving things! Years and years of memories from scouts and still more memories of lanterns from my best friend's off the grid property. There are MANY substitutions but NOTHING compares to the genuine article!
Such great memories from the 1960's/70's floundering and soft-shell crabbing on the Gulf of Mexico ... Thanks !
We did that too, in the MS Sound (Biloxi). My lantern still has the reflector (for gigging). Used to be real common sight to see people wading in the water on the beach back then
Bought my first white gas Coleman lantern in 1974 with my first ever check from Shoney's for washing dishes. I still have that lantern, and it still works. Have replaced the leather pump valve twice so far.
Yes sir, I did the same. My first job not on a farm was at a Shoney's bussing tables and washing dishes. I'm 65 now but I remember riding a bicycle to work. I had bought a car, 67 Pontiac Tempest, but didn't have enough to pay for insurance. I worked for 3 weeks before I got paid. Lol, I remember thinking how unfair it was having to wait to be paid. Tossing bales you got paid every Friday or daily depending on who you were working for.
@@randysmith9636my grandpa has a 67 tempest too!
@@randysmith9636- nice car. I had a ‘69 Tempest Custom S black interior and top with silver body. Looked great!
Thank you. I found one in an old house and don’t remember my family ever using one. Probably
my grandfather who was born in the late 1800s . great video. Perhaps I can do this.
Finally glad the algorithm put you back in my feed
IKR? I have been wondering how WrangleStar has been.
I was thinking the same thing. He disappeared from my feed for awhile
He stopped YouTubing for a while
@@RedGreenLeftright around the time he started going mega schizo
Yeah wtf
I bought one of these from a thrift store last year. Fought with it all last summer and did not win. She is a thing of beauty and I look forward to caressing her curves and warming her heart in an appropriate manner this year. I am sure she will brighten up my life in return.
I have a few Coleman gasoline lanterns and heaters that I have used on many camping trips throughout the years, and they still perform admirably to this day.
I do as well. I try to make it a point to pull them out and service them about once a year if I haven't used them. If the wife is planning an outdoor event, I'll usually pull them out then.
But I stick with the white gas models. White gas has an incredibly long shelf life.
When I was still in the Boy Scouts, we had these old, reliable lanterns. Sadly, they were once broken by vandals, and we had to buy new ones. Let me tell you, those new lanterns were nothing like the old ones. The light they gave off was so much dimmer-it just wasn’t the same.
@Fabivo It might have been the new mantles. The old ones were known to be brighter but were faced out due to safety concerns. The old ones were made with Thorium, making them radioactive.
The replacements aren't radioactive, but don't glow as bright.
The pre-fire sequence reminds me of old blow torches from the '20's and '30's that had a bowl to ignite a bit of gasoline to pre-heat the fuel.
Always fun to hand one to the newbie.
my cousin just found 2 of those gas blowtorches in the junkyard brought them home for scrap price and we got them going
Thank you for the best and simplest…straight to the point…how to light the kerosene lantern!
Ahh yes, the good old Colemon lantern. Many, many memories of going camping with my family and hearing the hissing noise of the many lanterns being ran. I cannot wait for the snow to be gone so I can get back out there and use mine.
Wow!!!! I had no idea Coleman made these. Guys if you are outdoorsmen, this is a game chager for wilderness living.
No it's a blinding nuisance at camp grounds
@@walleye364 Exactly. I had a buddy who used to bring three of these whenever we went camping. Super annoying.
Yes I do. I have 2, one vintage one newer. Thanks, Grandpa! RIP 🙏
Where have you been? 2 years, no videos in my feed& you pop up today!
Love my kerosene lamp. Now teach the newbies how to fit a new mantle!
Guess you should take it up with youtube recommendations and subscriptions.
Cause if you look at his videos on his channel. He seems to be uploading one a week or more for forever.
Same, I haven’t seen him in a few months.
Wash your hands after playing with the mantles, there is 2 kinds. Google it!
@@non1503
TH-cam is busy censoring us
The science behind this type of lantern is so cool! The super bright light is thanks to that netting around the flame. After the few seconds of initial use it becomes a delicate net of thorium ash that incandeses very efficiently.
Whatever is thorium anyway?
The net is called a mantle.
A rare earth metal. Slightly radioactive. For that reason they don't use it in lamp mantles nowadays because of the hazard it posed to workers in mantle factories. Before they demolished the factory in Germany the site was decontaminated.
@@evanstj5peerless mantles are treated with thorium like the old coleman mantles.
Yes came to say the MaNTLE.
I've learned more uses for iso on this channel than anywhere else on yt
“Beloved”, that’s the kindest thing I have been told or heard recently.
I love Coleman lanterns and stoves. Some of the most useful gear ever made.
I still have both, I had to use the stove after a hurricane a couple of years ago. Bacon and eggs. After that storm, I kinda enjoyed using that stove
Stoves and lantern like this really are amazing if you're looking for off grid and will have diesel
On hand
Diesel does not work in these lanterns. You can however use Coleman fuel in a kerosene lantern, but you still have to preheat the generator.
Those lamps bring me good memories of my childhood. There was no power at home back in the 80s in New Caledonia.
I grew up using these and the camping fuel lanterns. we also had a few coal oil lanterns with the wicks.
They just made it easier
Well done for youngensters to listen
Cool. Reminds me of the one we had as a kid. Used white fuel? Forget the exact name. Loved the sound it made when my dad lighted it.
Grew up with those !
The propane model produces awesome light as well
I did not know that such a thing existed, thanks Cody, I learned something today 😊
I have a box of old kerosene lanterns from my dad and grandpa, some with the alcohol cup (never knew til today what that was) and some without. The ones without have and lifting lever to raise the glass for long match lighting. Glad to have a better understanding of them today Cody. Also glAD I saved them from my mom’s yard sale. They have been life savers when the power goes out where I live. City people don’t understand how long the power will be out in rural areas due to power priority restoration going to them first.
Many memories come to mind with those lamps
LOVE Colman lanterns and stoves. Grew up with them camping year round all over the western mountains. It was AWESOME!
I love propane/kerosene lanterns. They are so much better than any battery powered lantern when you’re camping. The light and heat that they make is so nice.
We used these for our lighting at the wilderness survival school I had to attend as a teenager in the late 90s. They are great and get pretty darn bright.
Good to see you back. Keep it educational, not political.
Education is political. DemocRATs have destroyed education and replaced it with leftist propaganda.
Time and place for everything. I believe that at the moment it was very important.
Grow up precious.
I have 4 new in box, and other similar. And bunch of other Coleman fuel lanterns. Love them. Thank you Mr Coleman. I’m now going solar lights.
Reminds me of being a kid and all the things that we used to do that was the limousine of camping right there
Always used the white gas versions. Now I know more. Thank you, Wrangler Star. You remain awesome.
Yes, I did! I had to special order mine- it ended up cheaper ordering from an outlet than the HQ.
That was in 1995 . I used it for at least 10 years of scouting adventures, a few hurricanes and other various other uses. I’m still on my original mantle- those #11 special mantles are really worth the special effort to find them.
My dad gave me his coleman stove which had the same fuel system but obviously a different distribution. Cool stuff, works really well!
I am 74 and I never knew there were kerosene lanterns I had the white gas type😊 so this old dog learned a new trick
William Coffin Coleman, inventor of the Coleman Lantern, originally produced the lamps and lanterns for kerosene first, then "gas"(coal gas, natural gas, etc.), then White gasoline. The white gas lanterns, stoves are a "recent" (some time in the mid-teens) development.
I have two Coleman Quick-Lite double mantle lanterns for white gas. One made in 1919 and the other in 1921. Both light this same way, generally. (PITA). But the brilliant light is phenomenal!
"The Sunshine of the Night"
The R55-Jumbo Rotary Generators will WHISTLE when the fuel is flowing through!😆!
By the way, I still use one or both when camping! Can't beat the lumens!
If you run this lantern off diesel you'd better have a handful of generators because of the additives in the diesel. Kerosene is a "pure" fuel by comparison.
The ones with a wick....
@@Vortexan9804 I had the hurricane lamps but not the Colman lanterns
I always have just used wick lanterns. You can run them on anything and don't need fancy pants lighting techniques and they'll run till they're empty with no pumping. Just a match will do.
Im sure this type with the mantle is brighter though. I read up to 700 lumens on high which is a fair amount of light. One traditional 60 watt bulb produces about 800.
Regular wick lanterns top out around 200.
@@Vortexan9804
🟦…I had a "Little Wizard" kerosene railroad lantern that I was on a ship with for 3 & 1/2 months, it was silly to run the generator just for the light to read, and once you got the wick trimmed & adjusted just right the light was a decent quality & without smoke.
This is OUTSTANDING!
I watn that lamp.
What a wizard! How can you not love this man?
I have one of these and I love the glow and smell when burning kerosene mine came with a little plastic squeeze bottle with a bent metal nozzle to put the alcohol in the cup through the bottom without removing the globe.
When I was a kid my oldest brother (14 years older) used to take me and my younger brother fishing in Ohio. My favorite part was when the sun went down and he'd break out his kerosene lanterns and we'd fish all night by the soft light. Great memories.
I have spent hundreds of hours fishing and camping with a Colman white gas lantern. We would set on the river Bank all night cat fishing. I'm 65 now and started going on night fishing trips at a very young age with the family. As of last year I am still doing it. Then add in all the camping trips, no telling how many hours I have used Colman lanterns and stoves.
I have never used one like this though.
I have a new tri fuel(edit:my mistake , it is a duel fuel lantern, white gas and unleaded gasoline)Coleman and you can light it without this extra step. I love it. Bought it for camping but have also used it during some power outage’s from wild fires that took out poles for a few weeks. Also bought one for my neighbor as a gift, he loves it as well.
What's the model number? I'd be interested in checking it out.
@ it’s the duel fuel powerhouse Coleman lantern. Model:285,295
It does not burn diesel but I don’t have any diesel fuel at home so this works great for me. Will burn unleaded gasoline which is what all my generators run on so I have plenty on hand. Hope this helps. Happy new year!
I use to burn unleaded in my single fuel coleman and never had a problem. That was a long time ago. Pulled it out to get me through Helena and it worked like a champ - but I'm burning coleman fuel now.
@@rustyshackelford1230 Thank you sir. Yes indeed those are excellent lanterns. I have two of them: one from the late 1990s that I inherited from Dad, and one I bought new in the last 5 years
You can also convert the dual fuel and 290 powerhouse lanterns to run in kero and diesel. I made a video about it on here. Takes the generator tube from this kero lantern and put it in the white gas model. Burns all 4 fuels now.
My Dad bought a Coleman lantern in 1970, it used the standard fuel (white gas, naptha?) with the 2 mantles. I dropped it in the river when we were checking our trot lines at 2 in the morning. Good memories. I still have it, and I still use it on occasion.
I'd'a thunk they'd have a glowplug, like on my diesel car!! LOL!! Seriously, though, this is great info- I saw one at a flea market a month or so back, out of money, so I didn't get it...but I sure will keep my eyes on the prize now! Thanks for this tutorial!
Heel goed deze gebruikte wij vroeger altijd om te zeevissen❤
It always helps to be able to zee the vishes.
Great job we had one here in west of ireland some 60 years ago lit the mantle with methalated spirit great light great video
Learned this from Technology Connections!
Super cool to see you in my feed again 💜
Got one of those collecting dust in the shed should see if it still works haven’t used it since I was a kid
Oh my god... he's back... he started with wholesome, practical, and useful life lessons. Then dove headfirst into the deepend teaching us how to defend against militarized robot dogs (real video he made btw) and other such oddities. But he's back... this man gazed into the abyss and turned around, denying it the chance to gaze back
And soooo, what’s the problem with that? It’s all good info to have stored away. You just never know when it will come in handy.
You just might want to research some of those crazy things he has talked about. You may not think he’s crazy after all
Okay soft hands, go back to your safe space.
I have one of these from my father when we went camping in the early 90s. Looks almost exactly the same. They are bright and really cool.
They do, and I have one. Have had one for years. Nothing beats old tech like that.
I had to wait nine months after the Rona of 20 to finally get my Coleman kero lantern in summer of 21. I run it all winter long.
Don't burn diesel in it.
@@teebob21If I remember correctly, #1 diesel is kerosene. Do you know if that will work?
@stevenmark8156 It's not, and it won't. They are similar, but different enough that it will badly clog the lantern. Diesel has more wax than kerosene, a higher cetane rating, and higher lubricity.
@ I looked it up after I left that comment and question. It seems to be very confusing. One site said it was different and another site it was the same thing. Lol
@@stevenmark8156 General rule of thumb is that if you have a diesel engine, you can run kerosene in it if you have to, but if you have a kerosene appliance, you can't always run it on diesel.
You had me at " a mouthful of isopropyl alcohol"
I have one. It's awesome
We have these in Uk, we call them tilly lamps.
Great for keeping you warm when beach fishing 👍🇬🇧
I thought Tilly was Gordon Ramsey’s daughter 😂
Again fantastic information ❤thank you brother 😁👍☕️☕️🍰
I'm so glad ive got the best kerosene additive to keep "generator" system CLEAN and properly functioning.
It even keeps the kerosene fresh for longer than 10+ years.
Do tell?!
What is it?
Got one and love it, Kerosene is also much safer fuel than white gas. You can convert your white gas stove to run on Kerosene also.
How?
@@d.j.roberts187 Less volatile, Produces less carbon monoxide.
I’m glad they still make these! Did a lot of years of choring as a child with one of these old gals by my side in the winter!
My algorithm has had any of your content in the longest time, had to double check to make sure I'm still subscribed, bell is going on now
Had to have a bunch of those spare little silk socks
store them carefully some were radioactive. i think there's a video of the thought emporium put it in his vapor chamber
@@ComfysilenceThorium mantles haven't been available for 20 years.
My parents were missionaries in Africa. We had one of these and a few hurricane lamps as our only light source. This thing was great. We were two days drive over dirt roads from the nearest big town. There was no way to get propane or batteries and no electric. A 55 gallon drum of kerosene would keep the lights on for years. I remember the evening routine of my dad cleaning, filling and pumping as the sun went down. The roar of the lamp, and when it started to get dim it was time for bed. Later on we got a simple solar electric system but my dad still used the kerosene lamp for evening church service because it was brighter.
spent many hours sitting next to one of these while camping an fishing cat fish
Only type we used when camping in the 60's. Was kerosene / diesel or the 'white gas' models in the camp. Glad they still make them.
I wouldn’t have shown how many times it took to not get the alcohol all over every thing while filling the brass cup either.
Eye dropper
@@JE_AB_CAThis lantern comes with a special squeeze bottle for adding the alcohol.
In England they were called 'Primus Lanterns', and they also did stoves and plumbing / paint removing blowlamps that worked on the same principle. Yours is a beautiful lantern.
Brother Cody! So good to see you again. Happy New Year to you and your family. Much love from Grandma Linda in Martinsburg WV. 🤗🙏✝️💛💘💝♥️🎉🎉🎉🎉
So nice to see you again Wranglerstar!!!
i think isopropyl alchohol is one of the few things that should never be measured in mouthfulls
@marbedbadingo:
I agree.
Measuring isopropyl by the mouthful could lead to permanent blindness!
It'll be fine if you spit when you're done, instead of mindlessly swallowing.
We used these lanterns in the army….. GREAT light source!
Ive got a ton of Colman equipment and never knew they had a kerosene lantern. Now I have to find one.
Do they still make the dual fuel versions that can also use unleaded gasoline?
I haven't seen your videos come up in months! So glad you pooped back up!
Good to see you again friend 😊 hope you and yours are well
Great lanterns. They are very bright. However after use the mesh globe is really fragile. Be sure to buy extra.
Yes i have 1 of those. I knew about the pre heating cup also theres a special top up bottle with spout for that. That lamp served me well during week long power cuts during cold dark winter months. 👌👍
That's all my parents ever used when they took us camping. That and the Coleman stove. It was so bright and I loved watching my Dad pump the gas stove.
I still have my Coleman latern and stove which runs on white gas. Used for camping back in the 70's and 80's. Living in Earthquake country they are part of my emergency equipment. I keep a small vial of oil and extra lanterns mantels on the bottom. The oil is used to lubicate the leather on the pump handle as it can dry out. Had to use the latern last year as workers were doing power maintenance and were didn't have power for a couple days.
I've had one of these for nearly two years and it's great. My only advice is pressurise it before lighting the alcohol, could be dangerous pumping while the alcohol is burning.
If I had to pick one company for light stoves and so forth always Coleman,sturdy ,simple ,reliable.