For serious camping, just get a decent quality LED lantern.
eg Fenix CL30R. It is 650 lumens, should be bright enough for most things.
Apology accepted - as you were.
Im just an occasional camper these days and so have a couple of led torches/lanterns - but the Coleman unleaded lanterns and stoves really are excellent bits of kit - But I couldn’t really justify having them.
LEDs may well be better, I've never tried them tbh - very rarely have anywhere to charge them and if there's no other lighting on site, I know the Colemans will do the trick.
We tend to be away for 6 or 8 weeks at a time, so when I fill up the van I fill a jerry can with petrol, some mantels live in the glove box and that's cooking, lighting (and heating!) sorted. Just works. As I said before though, they're not for everyone. Just the serious campistas amongst us 😉
Do you have to do much cleaning of the lantern if you're using unleaded.
I've always understood it to be pretty dirty stuff (OK for cars but bad for things like stoves) so they gunk things up quite quickly
For example, on my multi fuel stove, unleaded is OK to use if required but it's not recommended
No - they burn very cleanly.
The globes need a wipe occasionally if you’re fussy - fingerprints and dust mostly, not carbon or anything.
the flame burns a bit yellow at first, but settles down within a minute or two as it gets warmed up.
the stoves and lamps have a needle valve which can get blocked up - we used to clean these maybe once a year? But thats with the lamps getting completely abused by an entire scout group - even if you were camping regularly, you’d maybe have to do this once every few years.
I’ve only ever run them on unleaded
As I said - the lamps aren’t for everybody 😀 but the Coleman stoves definitely ARE...... and if you are running the stove already, using the lamps too kinda make sense.
I try to remember to empty the tanks after the end of the season, that seems to make the most difference - I've got a couple of stoves and one was stored with a full tank for a couple or three years so it'll need the mixture jet thingie de-gunking as it doesn't stay lit now. But by-and-large no problems with any of them.
The newer stoves don't seem to be as good a quality as they were - thinner sheet metal etc - so worth setting up an ebay alert for them and trying to get an old one. They still sell all the bits!
but the Coleman stoves definitely ARE
Hah 🙂
I used to have one of those - got rid of it cos it drove me insane. The fact that the second burner was driven from the first was just an awful money saving design. To get the simmer right on the second burner was a huge fiddle.
AND it rattled when it was packed in the car.
Whichever you go for, you’ll need at least 4 so you can create a circle of light around you.
Else prepare to be embarrassed.
AND it rattled when it was packed in the car.
I suspect your tea towel was in the wrong place 😉
I suspect your tea towel was in the wrong place
Like I said
FAFF
