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Originally Posted by mark46th
Glad to hear the old stuff is still good. The new stoves are awful. I had to throw out a two burner camp stove. it had a propane leak that would fill up the space under the burners and flash fire when I tried to start it. I also have a Roadtrip Grill by Coleman. it has two burners but only one works which is too bad bad because I really liked it. I still use the one side to grill steaks and burgers for my wife and I. It gets very hot quickly, I grill steaks on it using the lowest flame setting. Parts are hard to get. It goes through the small bottles of fuel quickly so I bought an adapter to hook up a 5 gallon propane tank. Mostly negative comments about service and warranty on their website...
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The old stuff runs forever. There's quite the collectors community, if you're looking for info/parts (
http://www.colemancollectorsforum.com)
I've got the lantern apart and the brass pieces soaking in come Coke overnight to clean them up. Polished up the fount while waiting out the tornado, last night. I'll post some pics once I get it back together.
Side question: Coleman says that you shouldn't run alternate fuels unless you buy their "dual-fuel" products. Do any of you know what differences there are and if I need to calculate an MSD if I try to run kerosene or gas in these"coleman fuel only" stove/lantern?
My multi-fuel backpacking stove has some different "jets" to swap out based on the fuel used, but it'll run all fuels on any jet, just not well. I'm guessing that's what will happen with these, as well.