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#254669 - 12/15/12 08:02 AM Re: unleaded gas camp stove [Re: LesSnyder]
CANOEDOGS Offline
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 02/03/07
Posts: 1853
Loc: MINNESOTA

all this has got me thinking about the old two burner i have from American Gas Machine.i has to be pre WW2 and the fuel tank has a fill hole you could fit a gas station nozzle into.
i had it out and running at Thanksgiving when i made a pie in a Coleman oven and used the old stove.it ran great on Coleman fuel so i can see testing it out on auto gas,i just filled up a jug with middle grade gas for the snow blower so i have lots on hand to try out on that stove.
i'll take a few photos and have something by next weekend.

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#254672 - 12/15/12 09:18 AM Re: unleaded gas camp stove [Re: LesSnyder]
spuds Offline
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Registered: 06/24/12
Posts: 822
Loc: SoCal Mtns
Ive read gasoline can clog them up,I dont know for a fact,just something I read there is a tube that gets plugged.

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#254673 - 12/15/12 11:12 AM Re: unleaded gas camp stove [Re: LesSnyder]
Ironwood Offline
Journeyman

Registered: 05/15/11
Posts: 87
My one worry on the gasoline is ANY fumes are and ISSUE. I worked a Experiential Education camp for teens as the equipment manager and we had the 1980's "official" silver dual fuel Coleman stoves (single burner), and we never used anything but white gas. The white gas is seemingly less explosive (perhaps??) than gasoline. It always made me nervous thinking of lighting and storing gasoline for that purpose. I suppose to HAVE the option is nice, but as a "normal" operating fuel.......not for me. In a practicing for a "situation" where other fuels not available...OK.

Some old mountaineering buddies had a saying "A Peaker is a Leaker" in reference to the Peak 1 line Coleman used to have. I think the issue was around altitudes and in backpacking senarios as I never had a issue in normal situations and carried a different brand stove on altitude trips as the Colemans are heavy.

Ironwood

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#254676 - 12/15/12 06:04 PM Re: unleaded gas camp stove [Re: LesSnyder]
CANOEDOGS Offline
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 02/03/07
Posts: 1853
Loc: MINNESOTA
the generator,the tube that crosses the burner,gets clogged with whatever is added to gas these days.my thought about my "old" stove is that it was made to burn "old" gas and the tubing was made larger to allow for that.also i noticed that the burners have two small,sort of tiny,burners built into the sides of them which i assume were put there to help raise the temp inside the generator and burn off all the gas.

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#255889 - 01/27/13 05:09 AM Re: unleaded gas camp stove [Re: LesSnyder]
Byrd_Huntr Offline
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Registered: 01/28/10
Posts: 1174
Loc: MN, Land O' Lakes & Rivers ...
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