Coleman Lantern Mantels

[LoboGunLeather]

My Coleman lanterns, camp stove, tents, cots, sleeping bags, everything has gone to my sons and grandkids. I'll keep the memories of elk camp in the Rockies, 5 below zero overnight, sleeping in a tent, huddling around a Coleman two-burner stove pre-dawn, warming my socks and boots over a Coleman lantern before inserting my feet. What fun!

 

[TXBryan]

Anyone else have a Coleman canoe? Bought mine new in 1976 and I still bass fish out of it occasionally. Seventeen feet long and a yard wide it is affectionately known as the "Bass Barge." What they called "Ram-X" in the day it's rust-red polypropylene and the UV inhibitor they used has proved effective.

It's seen it's share of whitewater, in my younger days, and been paddled on more lakes than I remember. I went uptown when I installed a custom motor mount (a fitted 2x4) and clamped on a 35 lb thrust Min-Kota with a twelve volt deep cycle.

The "barge" was really fun to camp out of as it held about the same amount of gear as my Suburban. Plenty of room for two 40 qt. coolers. Lots of stories.

 

[wood714]

I don't have a Coleman, but a friend gave me a couple Dietz lanterns that I'm guessing were made for railroad, or house of ill repute use.

You'll have to pardon the dust, their on a plant shelf that gets cleaned only when I have to change the batteries in my smoke detectors.

 

[John_M52]

Anyone else have a Coleman canoe? Bought mine new in 1976 and I still bass fish out of it occasionally. Seventeen feet long and a yard wide it is affectionately known as the "Bass Barge." What they called "Ram-X" in the day it's rust-red polypropylene and the UV inhibitor they used has proved effective.

It's seen it's share of whitewater, in my younger days, and been paddled on more lakes than I remember. I went uptown when I installed a custom motor mount (a fitted 2x4) and clamped on a 35 lb thrust Min-Kota with a twelve volt deep cycle.

The "barge" was really fun to camp out of as it held about the same amount of gear as my Suburban. Plenty of room for two 40 qt. coolers. Lots of stories.

I had a green one (Coleman canoe) with the squared off stern. Heavy as heck but didn't get dented on rocks and such going down the Delaware river.

On another note I borrowed a butane single burner stove one time. Didn't realize it was useless below zero degrees. Pressure would drop to nothing. Guess I could have heated the butane gas can but I don't always do stupid things.

 

[Llance]

Coleman camping gear

I have Coleman lanterns and stoves i'm willing to part with. PM me and we will set up a price and method to share.

 

[mtgianni]

For family use we are mainly battery operated. For ice fishing nothing gives heat and light like a Coleman lantern in a properly vented ice shack.

As a young Reserve Officer in the 80's I remember hearing on haz-mat placarding, that if it was a new product the Coleman mantle would need to be packed in two cardboard boxes inside of each other. The larger box being 4'x6' due to radiation issues.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Seeing the mention of Colman Canoes reminded me of their Plastic frame backpacks. I never had any adult sized but had 2 models of youth size! For an external frame pack, they worked great for my kids! The problem is it was easy to put too much weight on them for the kids to carry for two or 3 days! I think the wife and decided the 11- and 9-year-old boys could carry their bed roll, sleeping pad, change of clothes and a hatchet or single burner stove and 1 quart canteen. That was about 20-25% of their body weight. I carried about 30-35% back then! 20 years later the younger one and I did the same trip I carried 12-15% (ultra light gear) and it about did me in!

Ivan

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I have Coleman lanterns and stoves i'm willing to part with. PM me and we will set up a price and method to share.

I already have more gear than space! I used to be able to outfit 6 to 8 families (besides my own) and have sold or given away all the larger stoves, lanterns, and tents except for my personal equipment and a few oddballs. We had a 18' camper that was the gear storage shed in the off seasons!

A word of warning! For the gear's sake sell it reasonable. I gave a bunch to people that use to borrow it. They generally destroyed it! "Since it cost them nothing, it must have been worthless!" and when something needed serviced, they just threw it away! (That was 6 lanterns, 4 two burner stoves and 4 tents and spare parts just gone!) So, I sold about the same number of stoves and lantern at flea markets. If it was a dealer, I was pretty firm on my very good prices. If it was a young person or couple starting out, I gave huge discounts for a Family Package! (I have kept all the spare parts I can too)

Ivan

 

[MygunisaS&Wrevolver]

I use my Coleman 425 camp stove for melting lead in the lead pot to make bullets. It is much hotter than propane and really gets the lead flowing. Needless to say, I don't use it for cooking food anymore!
I have two of the red Coleman single mantel lanterns, early 70s models. They still work good and it just wouldn't be camping without hearing the swishing lantern generator noise along with the white gas burn smell.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Someone once told me that you could track a wounded animal in the dark with a Coleman lantern because it would make fresh blood (not dried out yet) glow in the dark. Does anyone know if that's actually true? I've always wondered about that one...

 

[lihpster]

Someone once told me that you could track a wounded animal in the dark with a Coleman lantern because it would make fresh blood (not dried out yet) glow in the dark. Does anyone know if that's actually true? I've always wondered about that one...

Won't glow in the dark, but it is easier to see with light. UV light will fluoresce blood, but not a Coleman lantern.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Someone once told me that you could track a wounded animal in the dark with a Coleman lantern because it would make fresh blood (not dried out yet) glow in the dark. Does anyone know if that's actually true? I've always wondered about that one...

Take a black light into a motel room. You'll be sleeping in your car.

 

[KalamazooKid]

Found this old Coleman cooler at a large antique fair this am and had to have it for $35. Beautiful patina!

In doing a little research (I'd never seen this model) I found that this is the first model cooler that Coleman ever offered - in 1954.

Here's the reference ……

 

[Smoke]

At my first duty station, one of the guys in my section (Artillery) burned down our tent with an Army Yukon (gas) stove one night.

after that every time we went to the field our section signed out a Coleman Propane stove from MWR. We also signed out a camping cook set, including a coffee percolator.

At night we put the stove in the center of our Hex tent and turned it on for about ten minutes to warm up the tent then turned it off. If it got cold at night someone (usually me) would fire it up for a few minutes and turn it off again.

We always had hot food and we ALWAYS had hot coffee.