I picked up an M-1950 (Rogers 1964) stove today with a cap full of spare parts (springs, jets, handles) but I don't really know how to run it. It apparently works on White Gas, Leaded, Unleaded, and I assume also things like alcohol and Naptha - any unpressurized liquid(?).
It has a pump for pressurizing.
I've never used a stove like this. Does anyone have experience with this particular stove? Are there any tricks to working them? Or do you just fill up the tank, pump a few times, crack the switch open and torch a match?
Any advice on maint?
Thanks.

Don't know about that particular stove, but some stoves from the
50's had no pressure release valve and shouldn't be used.

Hi Nishnabotna,

Check out this site for stove info, I have found it really good.

http://www.spiritburner.com/forum/

Mike

Here ya go. You are lucky, mine has one little part that is B/O, and I can't find one anywhere, so it just sits in my garage...

Oops, you beat me to it...

I still have one of those around here somewhere. I used one a lot in the military and used one for backpacking in the early '70's. What you do is pump it up, open the valve part way to let a little fuel escape then close the valve. Light the stove and let it warm up by burning the released fuel and then slowly open the valve again, the desired flame is blue, solid without flareups and yellow flame.
I would be careful, those stoves are almost always really old and the gaskets may all be shot. If anything seems to leak, forget about lighting it up! Hope that helps some. Good luck.

Hey,

I googled your stove and found lots of info; e-bay has a couple for sale and here is a good Spirtburner Forum discussion on the stove and how to light it.

http://www.spiritburner.com/forum/viewto...8cd337d5813fb71

Good Luck,

Mike

Not multi-fuel any more than a silver tank Coleman stove today is.

That would be a squad stove (proper name, not "tanker's" stove). We still used them in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Alaska. It is the direct ancestor of the Coleman Peak 1, which has evolved into a bunch of variants (The original Peak 1 was the best thought out - I still us mine for some trips - as recently as late January this year). Coleman even replicated the aluminum carry case concept with the Peak 1 (Rectangular and thinner material, but they did toss in a functional pot gripper.)

We ran ours on Mogas - unleaded regular octane gasoline. They were more reliable on Blazo or Coleman fuel. Inattentive users could turn one into a flaming ballistic object (trailed by curses) when the generators clogged from poor fuel residues and flooded the air box.

AFAIK, despite anecdotes, they are NOT multifuel - stick to white gas (or unleaded gasoline if you insist).

Very simple to use. Easy to maintain - if you only used clean white gas, there was little to do other than oil the pump once in a while. Mogas crudded up the generator eventually. They were not completely GI-proof, but pretty close. You sure there are not instructions on the side? I bet you can Google up instructions if not.

A nifty, nostalgic, functional bit of history. Enjoy it best by using it occasionally to brew up some hot water for coffee or tea.

Edit: This was the stove we had:

http://spiritburner.com/ccs/pages/coleman536_instructions.htm

But it was carried in the aluminum can seen on this one:

http://spiritburner.com/ccs/pages/colemangi_instr.htm

Regards,

Tom

Aweseomed. Thanks, this will really help out.

Great directions OBG, thanks for that info. The actual manual for the M1950 is TM10-7310-202-12, if a person can locate one somwwhere.