Vintage yes. Camping....not so much."age search update

[Mark72]

Here is a vintage gasoline stove I picked up this week.

Here is the fuel tank.

Here is the plaque on the bottom shelf.

Not a Coleman but very interesting. Cannot find any info on this stove on the net.

Mark

[Wolffarmer]

NOw that is cooking iron

Nice stove

Randy

[Juneaudave]

OMG...get out the bacon!!!!

[Ratkity]

How much does it weigh?

Interesting piece!

Hugs,
Ratkity

[doug hodder]

Cool stove Mark....is it a wick type like for kero...seems odd to have a tank up that high unless it was a gravity feed type thing. Doug

[Mark72]

Ratkity, I guess it weighs in around 60-70 lbs. but I haven't picked the whole thing up. Had to disassemble it to get it stuffed in the car for the trip home.
Doug, It is a gravity fed fuel system. That is why the reservoir is mounted so high. Not to mention it is not air tight.The wooden knobs you see in the tubes on the sides of the fuel reservoir are pre-heater wicks for the vaporizers. You pull them out and light one for the burner you will be using and stick it in the flared tube you see in the second pic.

Mark

[campmaster-k]

Ratkity, I guess it weighs in around 60-70 lbs. but I haven't picked the whole thing up. Had to disassemble it to get it stuffed in the car for the trip home.
Doug, It is a gravity fed fuel system. That is why the reservoir is mounted so high. Not to mention it is not air tight.The wooden knobs you see in the tubes on the sides of the fuel reservoir are pre-heater wicks for the vaporizers. You pull them out and light one for the burner you will be using and stick it in the flared tube you see in the second pic.

Mark

Did you mean 600 or 700. Or am I missing something? Hold a dollar up to it and take a picture.

[Mark72]

Kirk, the stove is made of tin except for the burner assembly. I may be underestimating it a little but it really isn't that heavy.

Mark

[doug hodder]

Doug, It is a gravity fed fuel system. That is why the reservoir is mounted so high. Not to mention it is not air tight.The wooden knobs you see in the tubes on the sides of the fuel reservoir are pre-heater wicks for the vaporizers. You pull them out and light one for the burner you will be using and stick it in the flared tube you see in the second pic.
Mark

That's wild! Being made of sheet metal...I'd bet not many of those are left around...nice graphics on the fuel resevoir and the back. Cool find! While I know nothing about it...I'd think it to be a kero fueled stove...a gas in a non air tight container seems odd to me... I've found wacky older stoves, way overpriced in my opinion, and they had that type of fuel system on them and it was kero. Doug

[campmaster-k]

That is a very cool stove Mark. Thanks for the pics.

[Mark72]

Doug, I'm not going to swear to anything yet. But, if I had gotten close enough for it to show up in the pic it says national gasoline right between the legs of the stove in the logo.

Mark

[Juneaudave]

Check out this PDF that ties the National Stove Insurance line to Coleman!!
http://light.papo-art.com/tech-n-info/Coleman_technical/OldDirtyColemanPaper/GasFromGasolineFormH_2.pdf

[doug hodder]

Mark...that's what's tough on trying to fire up some of the odd ball stuff that's out there...not knowing exactly how it was all supposed to work. Like I said...I know nothing about it. For me...I think on the initial firing...I'd do it outside though, just for grins.... Doug

[doug hodder]

That's in interesting read Dave....based on that info...I'd bet it to be a very early 20's stove. #1...his is a gravity feed, not pressurized white gas like they say all the National Insurance models were, further in the read it says that Coleman replaced the typical wick type burners that were typical of the period.

Some of this stove stuff isn't really documented really well, and it's not uncommon to find numbers/ features and things that overlap. Stove oil was the fuel of the day back then...and since it's a gravity feed...I'd still bet on "stove" oil/kero as it's fuel. Hope Mark can figure it all out...I'd like the education on it. To me, there is just some common sense things that indicate it's not white gas, but I could be wrong....have been before...if you only knew who I married. Doug

[Mark72]

Dave That is an interesting read. I saved it for future reference. I will have to post some pics of the vaporizer assemblies on this stove. They are primitive in design but are not wick type burners. I am going to bet this stove to be closer to the turn of the century.

Mark