Re: [lro] CHAT - Coleman stove - Pointless post really - in fact, just delete it now

From: Todd Vess (toddvess@comcast.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 11:24:06 EST

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    We have the old green Coleman stove my parents used in the early 70s. It
    hadn't been used for about 20 years. We put in fresh fuel and she fired
    right up, good as new. The coolest part is that it's of the same vintage as
    my Rovers -- something I'm getting waaay too much into.

    Todd

    > From: Rob MacCormick <rmaccormick@olin.edu>
    > Reply-To: lro@koan.team.net
    > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:29:58 -0500
    > To: lro@koan.team.net
    > Subject: [lro] CHAT - Coleman stove - Pointless post really - in fact, just
    > delete it now
    >
    >
    > All this talk about camps has me preparing my old green stoves for a trip I'm
    > taking in the end of April. I recently (Ok so it was almost a year
    > ago) picked up an old green two burner white gas stove for free at a recycling
    > event.
    >
    > Call it my more affordable version of landroveritis. I already have an
    > identical fully functional stove (stored in the rack above the cab of the
    > dorkmobile) like this so why did I need to get another? Upon careful
    > consideration I determined my answer to be threefold. It was free, old, and
    > quite suspect functionally.
    >
    > So last night fired it up...OK so I TRIED to fire it up. A SPO(t) had left the
    > tank with remnants of gasoline and the tank had something
    > rattling around inside it. I cleaned it up, fished out the remants of an old
    > fuel pump piece from the tank put in fresh coleman fuel. Voila
    > everything works fine just as designed and built.....End of story? 'course
    > not.....I must be able to "improve" the functionality and
    > suitablility for my particualer applications. I'm drawing and sourcing parts
    > and ideas for improvements.....Whats in/on/around yours? Now that I
    > have two I can have one bone stock and one can become FRANKENSTOVE......
    > Rob M
    > Concord, MA
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