On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:56:10 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:
The stove I have in the shop to heat chemicals for plating or
green rusting :-) is over 55 years old. I think more like 60 or thereabouts.
I remember Dad replacing the leather in the pump once.
Since I took it into my hands, it had run on propane except for the first year
or two. I suspect I'll have to oil the leather flapper and hope for it to work
or replace it once again.
That reminds me, I'll have to find some Coleman fuel to have in the shop.
Martin
Walmart..or have someone bring you a 55 gallon drum of Drip Gas from the
oil fields
Gunner
Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:34:05 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:
I have a Coleman stove that I made a multi-fuel.
I normally burn propane in it with my optional addition.
I have the 'white' gas or Coleman fuel (white gas) tank as well.
Common non-lead is white gas. The additives is what I try to
avoid by using store cans and propane.
Martin
Indeed. Coleman fuel is 100% pure Naptha, which has just about zero
impurities in it. Unleaded will work..but over time, will crud up the
guts of the devices "generator". Generators are from $7-18 each..so one
should always try to use Coleman fuel..or its generics. However..in a
worst case scenario..Unleaded gasoline will work for a decent amount of
time, particularly if its used over a period of weeks, daily. The
various crap in Unleaded tends to become varnish if allowed to dry out
in the generators. I get good life out of them, by running unleaded a
couple tankfuls..then immediately fill up with the proper fuel, and run
it for 10 minutes..or as long as necessary, and after that tank is
expended, refilling with unleaded. If Im going to put the device away
into storage...it gets dumped, refilled with Coleman fuel (or its
generic) and run for 10 minutes then put away. Ive got devices that
have had many many gallons of unleaded run through them, but have the
original generator still functioning in this fashion.
Propane stoves can..can be run on natural gas if there is a source..but
the flame will be odd and at times very hot. So dont run em for long
periods of time if bootlegged into a natural gas source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_fuel
Btw..as I live in the oil fields.."drip gas" is available if you know
where the drains are...G and will work satisfactorily if necessary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_gas
Gunner
Gunner Asch wrote:
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:48:21 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or
about Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:20:54 -0800 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:39:35 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or
about Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:43:32 -0800 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:54:22 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
Smart man! I wish more of these folks had that much of a grip.
Without power, I couldn't cook (electric stove), so why get the
eggs and milk out?
Stuck to granola and jougurht. SOP for years now.
you ...you...you dont have a Coleman stove or equivelant????
Oh, well, I had one of those. If I had really wanted to cook, I
could have. But mostly, I just fired up the propane barby, and either
did burgers, or chicken, or lambchops. (I still had some corn on the
cob in the freezer, wrap in tin foil with some salt & pepper, butter,
next to the chops ... yum. I think the last two cobs are probably
squirrel food after five years in the freezer.) For supper, that was
standard. Breakfast is usually granola, unless it is a weekend,when I
make Brunch.
Blink blink...blink....Really?
Even when one can pick one up a the second hand stores for $9 in perfect
running condition?????
I think there's two in the shed ... one is in The Kitchen Box, and
the other is 'somewhere' in a bin.
Thats really good planning. And the last time they were fired up to
check the generator and the pumps was when?
Chuckle....and how much fuel do you have? Shelf life of Coleman fuel
(and its clones) is in generations...it simply doesnt go bad. Ive got a
half gallon can that is at least..at least....30 yrs old. Still works
fine.
A gallon of fuel at Wally world is bout $5-8 dollars and will run a
stove for at least a month, cooking 2 times a day.
Up till last summer, those stoves were in storage, with most
everything else. And for most of the years before then, I lived in the
city. The one is propane, and I've the adaptors for the bulk tanks.
I need to find the other one and check it out.
My big "score" was two (more) Son Of Hibachis. Their claim to
fame is the ease with which they can get the charcoal going. I've
even gotten charcoal that had been out in the garage over the winter
(and was thus a bit damp) to light off. And they work real well as
braziers for heating a space.
But I need to get on the preparations.
Indeed. And bear in mind..that hibachis are the MOST CO malignant
devices ever developed by man, including the Edsel.
They put out a deadly deadly cloud of the stuff..so ALWAYS cook outdoors
with them. Even in the snow.
Shrug
As for propane vrs liquid fuel stoves and lanterns...a propane device is
limited to whatever you have in the tank.
A liquid fuel device is limited to whatever you can syphon out of a gas
tank after your proper liquid fuel is gone.
Something to consider...shrug
Gunner
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