Coleman stove after backblast

When run on ordinary petrol these stoves begin to choke quite quickly, thus in the short term requiring far more pressure to operate before they completely clog up. There is often a lingering flame after being turned off, to release the pressure at this stage is highly dangerous...

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[donaldproddie]

When working the Coleman stove was very good but the speed it clogged up rendered it impractcal on expidions of anything approaching a week. This was especially the case in the Middle East where the petrol seems to be a very crude standard. They must be selling us the good stuff and keeping the rubbish for themselves.

[vijerad]

He's Scottish.....ahhhh the state of your hair!

[donaldproddie]

Actually the flame lingers for a couple of senconds after you switch it off, there must have been a slight flicker still going.

[donaldproddie]

I think the trick with these stoves if you are using petrol is to either give the brass element a good going over with blow torch regularly. Trouble is who carries a blowtorch on expiditions?

[Andymonty27]

the trick with these is that normal unleaded petrol contains many additives which work well in the car, however tend to block up the brass preheat tube as the fuel vaporises it deposits the additives in the tube...

I run mine on 3 fills of unleaded then a fill of white gas which tends to dissolve the additive build up as you can tell when you first use it with the white gas due to the colour of the flame and the soot produced for the first couple of minutes.. Hope this helps..

[donaldproddie]

That sounds like useful info, trouble is white gas may be hard to get in the places I tend to travel. Petrol you can get practically anywhere, I like to buy just enough to do me to the next town to save weight.

[stonefisk]

use Aspen4T, cheaper than colemans own fuel but is the same specification, decent burn from it.

[loki1066]

Where you from Donald????

I'm getting Irish, Welsh, Scottish and South African !?!?!

[sniper96a3]

use the right fuel you muppet

unleaded from the local petrol station is no good

if you don't do what colemans say you get what you deserve

[sniper96a3]

umm me thinks you is using unleaded fuel from the local petrol station

don't be a tight arse and buy the right fuel

then you might just might walk away the next time

if you keep using the wrong fuel or don't do what colemans say then you will et what you deserves muppet

[bricardiff1969]

you look like confused.com,,lol

[5thSFGsniper]

I usually end up taking mine apart every year and cleaning the parts in an ultrasonic cleaner (we have one @ work). Seems to do the trick, love the thing, but it does require regular maintenance and cleaning to work properly when using "alternate" fuels.

[MsSpy]

This old stove brings back memories. Years ago, I used to carry this heavy stove in my backpack. It had a tendency to blow up. I remember having to deal with flames that were 4 feet high.

[TheBattleWagon]

Yes always let them cool first.

And then to bleed of the preshure?

you loosen the pump knob till it back bleeds.

[streusel87]

If you open the fueltank while burning, or immediately after burning, there is a lot of pressured gasoline inside, its gas and not liquid. so it will expand an start burning like you expirienced. so never open the tank, when the stove is still hot. release the pressure, the next time before you want to start the stove. greets.

[N1ght3d]

BTW, read the instructions. lol