moonlite 37
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I bought a quart of Coleman lantern fuel yesterday $6.++. I was wondering if I would have trouble using gasoline. We used gasoline in the Army. Rge last coleman furl I had bpught was $2.++ a Gallon.
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MarkB_MI
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There are Coleman stoves and lanterns that can handle unleaded mogas. If your lantern has a silver tank, it's one of the "unleaded" versions. If not, you should stick with the Coleman fuel. I believe the valves are different, but I'm not sure.
oliver power
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Seems as though I tried that once in the past , and the generator plugged up on the lantern. If I'm not mistaken , the lantern would light ok. But then got dimmer and dimmer , til it went out. And I don't believe it ever worked the same afterwards.
Wheat Farmer
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Wished you were near Denver, I would give you several gal.
Coleman gas is plain unleaded gas without the additives.
Gasoline usually has small particles in it that will plug up the gas generator in the lantern.
Coleman sells a filter/funnel for the lanterns. It is a VERY fine filter, as long as you use it with gasoline it will work fine, been doing it since the late 70's in both lantern and camp stove, never had a problem.
Gasoline usually has small particles in it that will plug up the gas generator in the lantern.
Coleman sells a filter/funnel for the lanterns. It is a VERY fine filter, as long as you use it with gasoline it will work fine, been doing it since the late 70's in both lantern and camp stove, never had a problem.
moonlite 37
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I wonder if Napyha from the paint store would work?
We used to call Coleman fuel "white gas" and even had a Sinclair station in town in the the 60"s-70"s that had a pump with white gas. People bought it for their Coleman stuff and for cleaning. And yes, it is not unleaded gasoline. Coleman finally came out with gasoline run equipment with the silver tanks when there was no more leaded gasoline sold in the US.
rodgernbama
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I"ve used high octane gasoline in my Coleman lantern and Coleman stove and never had a problem.
When we were tent camping, many years ago, we used Amoco high test gasoline in our stove and lantern, and it worked great! Amoco high test was gasoline without lead in it. So---what is un-leaded gasoline now? Gasoline that had the lead taken out of it?? or gasoline that never had the lead added to it???
The lead had to be added to keep the older, low compression engines from "knocking" when on a hill or a hard pull. If we tried to use Amoco high test gas in our Model T's and A's, they would knock greatly. And, who could afford the high-test? Not me, nor my friends! Gosh! Gas oline was 10-15 cents a gallon for regular and 25 cents a gallon for Amoco high-test!
Makes us old timers really wish for the good old days!
The lead had to be added to keep the older, low compression engines from "knocking" when on a hill or a hard pull. If we tried to use Amoco high test gas in our Model T's and A's, they would knock greatly. And, who could afford the high-test? Not me, nor my friends! Gosh! Gas oline was 10-15 cents a gallon for regular and 25 cents a gallon for Amoco high-test!
Makes us old timers really wish for the good old days!
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