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While taking a break from some other demanding projects I decided to disassemble, clean and repaint the tank on one of my old Coleman lanterns.
It was starting to rust and pit on the bottom so I want to halt it before it rusts completely through.
I never noticed it before but after I wire wheeled the paint off the bottom the logo is interesting and says 'The sunshine of the night'

My dad had one. Brings back memories. Thks.

Three of them hang on hooks on my front deck, ready to go in case of a power outage.

Mistered wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:43 pm

Three of them hang on hooks on my front deck, ready to go in case of a power outage.

Do your mantles stay in good shape hanging outside all the time?

I need to get a new globe for mine, it got broken a while back.

Do your mantles stay in good shape hanging outside all the time?

Yea - as long as the globe is intact and the lanterns are under cover.
I have had mantles last a couple years as long as the lanterns are stationary and not moved around too much.

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The ones I rarely use run off a propane bottle. The one used more frequently runs off a rechargeable battery. It's an older decent looking kerosene look alike. I've tried to find another one, but the new models don't look anything like a traditional kerosene lantern.

I went 'LP' for a few years - even made my own extensions that coupled onto a couple 1 LB size tanks so I wasn't hostage to the disposable cylinders but after several years of use the cheaper, aluminum LP styles got bent up, unreliable and the output of LP lanterns is not near that of traditional 'white gas' style.
Then I suddenly had three traditional lanterns given to me - two singles and one double mantle style so I went back to using them.
I have always used 'clear' gas in them so again I do not have to pay the horrible price for 'Coleman Fuel' - which is basically a clear gas derivative without the additives normally in gasoline.

"Crown" white gas sold at wal-mart. Made in the same plant. Half the price.

I still have the Coleman lantern by dad bought back in '68 or so. Globe is broken and no mantles but I'm sure it still works. Does Coleman still sell replacement globes?

Does Coleman still sell replacement globes?

Yep - there are lower priced no-name as well.
Go visit your sporting goods store.

After WWII Dad moved us out into the country to a farm with no electricity or running water. In 1951 we finally moved into town because my Mother went to work in the Post Office and she"d had enough of out houses.

At first we had Kerosene lamps for light, and fuel oil stoves. The upstairs was not heated so we slept under a lot of quilts.
Along about 1948 we got Coleman Lanterns for light. Man, what a difference that made. Much better to read by.

When the bull dozed the old farm house I managed to salvage those of lamps, lanterns, and the wall telephone. I have them on my mantle
and hanging on the wall in our dining area. Those were tough times.

I'm a little younger than you cooperhawk, and we did have electricity in on the farm...but we didn't have heat upstairs either. After us kids grew up and moved out, our folks remodeled the house and moved the master bedroom upstairs...that's the same time the whole house got heated, weird...right? We used feather ticks in the wintertime for sleeping under. I had a thermometer on the wall in my bedroom, it was usually below 30ºF in the winter, and there was frost on the inside walls of our bedrooms...good times.

Cowpokey wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 19, 2019 7:23 pm

I had a thermometer on the wall in my bedroom, it was usually below 30ºF in the winter, and there was frost on the inside walls of our bedrooms...good times.

You know, they were good times. We raised chickens for eggs, but they were money makers, so for Sunday dinner Dad would often go out in the grove and shoot a pheasant for us. We had milk cows, hogs, sheep, ducks, and goats.

No TV or video games, we went to box socials where we bought box lunches not knowing what girl made them, always a surprise, sang community songs, church socials, ect. Neighbors visited often and we had great family holidays where relatives came from near and far and the food was fantastic.

And guns were a big part of our life. We hunted a lot, and we shot targets a lot. I got my first .22 on my twelfth birthday and I still have it. A bolt action Mossburg. I already had a .410 shotgun. No one thought anything of it. I took my double barrel 16 gauge to high school shop and refinished the stock.

Course I don't want to go back there permanently, but we do like to go rough is from time to time and we still use those Colman lanterns.