New hobby/addiction

[Steve]

So you want a Coleman kerosene, eh? I could stand to send mine to a good home.

Yes! I'm sure I could send you something in return.

 

[Dustin4185]

The older stuff works just as good, is built 10x better and just has that “feel” to it. I have a few older pieces, but not many. I’ll have to find the old heater I have stashed away. Found it in a shed we tore down.

 

[Loony661]

My 237 and a picnic table lantern I built with a 275 fount, 242 burner, and 228 vent that I had re-porcelain coated in white on the bottom and red on the top. I set the red one up for kerosene as well.
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I spy a 93/94 Pantera in the background...

 

[farminkarman]

I spy a 93/94 Pantera in the background...

Yep, a 94'. I gotta sell it as I need more room in my shop.

 

[USMC615]

I spy a 93/94 Pantera in the background...

I should prob get my eyes checked...damn if I see a Pantera in the pics (at least of the four wheel type)

 

[farminkarman]

I should prob get my eyes checked...damn if I see a Pantera in the pics (at least of the four wheel type)

It is the snowmobubble with the gray/silver hood.

 

[USMC615]

It is the snowmobubble with the gray/silver hood.

Never knew such...but snowmobiles ain't the most common thing around deez parts.

 

[slackinoff]

I have one at the bottom of Higgins Lake, free to anyone wanting it, just go and get it!

When I was a kid, grandpa would take me in the garage to fire them up at night for fun. He told me one time he was out fishing, he accidentally dropped one into the lake off his boat. He said it glowed all the way down to the bottom. I didn't know any better, but it was good story to tell me as a kid. I was fascinated by them.

For a long time I wanted to tie a string to one and throw it into his pond to watch it glow to the bottom. LOL

 

[FergusonTO35]

Stuff like this is what I love about this forum. Saws are just one of all the cool hobbies here. As a youngster, I was quite a collector of various things that wouldn't be thought of as something kids would be interested in. Glass telephone and telegraph insulators in particular, I probably have 300 of them now. My parents genuinely worried that something was mentally wrong with me for being obsessed with old and odd stuff.

 

[Crzybowhntr]

Picked up this perfect 288 for 20 bucks a few months ago. Put an amber globe on it. Supposed to keep the bugs away.

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Does that amber globe really help with the bugs?

 

[Steve]

Does that amber globe really help with the bugs?

I don't know. The bugs where all gone by the time I got the globe last November. It does kill the light output substantially though. More than you would think.

 

[Steve]

My parents genuinely worried that something was mentaly wrong with me.

You're a long time member of a chainsaw forum. They still do!


One of these days I need to bring you that NOS homelite ST-80 I have.

 

[Crzybowhntr]

I don't know. The bugs where all gone by the time I got the globe last November. It does kill the light output substantially though. More than you would think.

Thanks. I may have to get one to try. I inherited a few of my grandpa's old Coleman lanterns and I remember fishing with them - it seemed like every bug in America was drawn to it.

 

[Yukon Stihl]

Here is one of my older one I have found. Unfortunately the original globe with CPR is long gone

 

[Steve]

Thanks. I may have to get one to try. I inherited a few of my grandpa's old Coleman lanterns and I remember fishing with them - it seemed like every bug in America was drawn to it.

I picked it up from eBay. They are called no bug globes. Way cheaper than the Coleman branded yellow globes.

 

[WillG]

Just got these 2 burning this evening. Both 200A single mantle. One is dated 7/1955 and the other is 6/1956. They both just needed the pump leather oiled, pulled the pump check valve on both out and cleaned them in the ultrasonic cleaner, replaced the fuel cap seals, cleaned/flushed the fuel tanks, cleaned the valves and pickup tubes and replaced both generators.

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[ErnieG]

I'm an avid Coleman/lantern collector also .
I started with the wickies then migrated over to Coleman..I think im somewhere around 250 deep now and that's down from the high of 300 at one time but I had to sell some to make room .
Here's a few pics of mine ...

 

[ErnieG]

A few more ...

 

[Steve]

A few more ...
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Nice blue/black 243. very hard to find one with good paint on the fount.

 

[Crzybowhntr]

I picked it up from eBay. They are called no bug globes. Way cheaper than the Coleman branded yellow globes.

Thanks. I`ll look into them come spring time.