#141063 - 07/23/08 09:39 PM
Re: Coleman stoves
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Remember though, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
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#141159 - 07/24/08 12:58 PM
Re: Coleman stoves
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I love yard sales!! Good finds!!
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#141193 - 07/24/08 03:50 PM
Re: Coleman stoves
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It is good to see you posting again Malemutekid!! I have been wondering how you have been.
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#141898 - 07/28/08 08:10 PM
Re: Coleman stoves
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I have one and it works great, had it for going on 4-years. The instructions said to put the cylinder in a deep freeze for 45-min before trying to refill it. I do this and I can get them refilled 100% as much as a new cylinder. One time alter freezing and refilling a cylinder I put it back in the freezer to lat it get cold again and then filled it some more. It worked so well that the cylinder bulged out some when it got warm. That was the last time I did that. It’s best to fill them from a big tank that is no less then ¼ full, after the big tank get ¾ empty it doesn’t fill the small cylinders so well.
I bought the refill adaptor for $13.00 at Harbor Tools. There must be some hazard to refilling. I was looking at a propane cannister yesterday and it said on it that it was illegal on the Federal (US gov't I mean) level to transport a refilled propane cannister. That being said, it sure looks like the cannister was designed to be refilled. There's a little port below the main screw on port that sure looks like it's meant to be used to refill the cannister.
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#142062 - 07/29/08 03:37 PM
Re: Coleman stoves
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"...a little port below the main screw on port that sure looks like it's meant to be used to refill the cannister...
I have never known what that little port is for, but the refill gizmos don't use it, they just screw onto the threaded part...
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#142064 - 07/29/08 03:48 PM
Re: Coleman stoves
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That little port is probably an overpressure relief valve.
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#142114 - 07/29/08 09:36 PM
Re: Coleman stoves
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Well, I finally got to run the propane Coleman stove through its paces this weekend - two-night trip with five adults/nine kids. I made sausage gravy and biscuits for breakfast on Sunday morning - that was the only time I broke out the stove, and while I was getting the biscuits ready in the dutch oven, someone else cooked four pounds of bacon on the stove and heated water for coffee and hot chocolate.
Then when the biscuits were well on their way, I took over and got two skillets going - one to cook sausage, one to make the roux and then consolidate/serve while the next portion of sausage cooked. It worked really well, although I kept stirring sausage and gravy over the lip of the skillets and by the end of the breakfast run, the stove was almost as filthy as when I bought it.
The good thing was that since I tore it down and rehabbed it, I know how to take it apart and reassemble it, so I could get all the nasty grease and sausage bits out of all the nooks and crannies.
A very well-spent $11.
Dave
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#142118 - 07/29/08 10:11 PM
Re: Coleman stoves
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"...sausage gravy and biscuits..."
Oh man, can I come camping with you? You make stuff like that and I will do all of the dishes!
If you really want a camp stove, keep your eyes peeled for a Coleman three burner. You would be amazed at how handy that third burner can be...
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