christmas eve coleman lantern light off!!!!!!!!!!

[DragonFire]

Haven't seen the glow in the sky from Slow's place...should be any time now...

[Wolffarmer]

Here is my light up



My 1927 L227 decided it was going to clog the generator so it is not burning.

There is a 1939 220B, 1944 242C, 1950 220D ( birthday lantern ), 1952 220E, 1955 220E, 1958 252 Mil Spec, 1966 200A converted to Kerosene and a 1969 200A.

Randy

[DragonFire]

Beautiful!!!

[Wolffarmer]

My house faces east, so i might wake up Slow.

Randy

[Zollinger]

Ok here's mine. 11 out of 12 fired right up. Zip, zero, zilch, nada on #12.

[campmaster-k]

Here is my Christmas Eve Light off. Here's to you Slowcowboy.

[Maureenm]

Beautiful, guys and gals! I'll join you next year, for sure. Got a little sidetracked today.
Maureen

[doug hodder]

Get a military 252...no self respecting Coleman collector would be caught without one in their collection. Doug

Here's my Christmas eve light up pic....

[Woodbutcher]

This ones for you Slow.....This Bighat is my families lantern. We toured the USA with it during the 60's . It's seen more miles and camp grounds then most people. It has been on a shelf in my basement since about 1989. The last time I (with my own family) camped. Well once you mentioned this Christmas Eve light up I went down and pulled it off the shelf. It was dirty and full of soot. Tank still had fuel in it. Did not hold much hope for it lighting. There was a spare generator in my parents old tackle box. We caring this box everywhere the lantern went. Included in the box with the generator was a snake bite kit, spare mantles, tent waterproofing for seams, air mattress repair kit, silicone, bandages etc. and a generator with a .99 cent tag on it. All the contents were hard as a rock, but they were there! I replaced the mantles and generator and pumped it up. I got some leaking from the filler gasket. But It tried to light it anyway.













It fired right up. With fuel from 1989 in it. This thing just wanted to live! I set it on my stove in the kitchen to burn. Every 5 minutes I had to pump it some. After about 20 minutes I turned it off and filled the tank with fresh fuel. Packed the lantern to take to the family Christmas Eve with the hope of taking some nice pictures of the burn. Well when I pumped it up the fuel ran from the bad tank gasket. Not wanting to burn down Dads house with his own lantern I gave up.

Merry Christmas Slowcowboy and may you and your family have the best Christmas ever!

Steve

[campmaster-k]

Get a military 252...no self respecting Coleman collector would be caught without one in their collection. Doug

Here's my Christmas eve light up pic....

Now that looks like fun!

[Wolffarmer]

Get a military 252...no self respecting Coleman collector would be caught without one in their collection. Doug

Here's my Christmas eve light up pic....

Cool special effects Doug.

Those are special effects aren't they?



Randy

[Wolffarmer]

Steve, Cool story on that lantern, like to see those kind of things kept alive.

Now you just need a cap gasket. Don't get the single piece cap that Coleman sells and replace the 3 piece cap. just does not look right. But would work for a bit.

You can get a pack of 10 of the gaskets for about $7 with shipping from a Ebay seller. I have his gaskets ( replaced 6 in the past week ) Then you will have some for your growing collection. I have found that about 90% of the cap gaskets will be bad, just come to expect I will have to replace them but it is not hard.

Randy

[mikeschn]

You guys are having too much fun. I think I am going to have to get a couple lanterns next year.

What do you guys recommend I start with?

Mike...

[doug hodder]

Mike...the basic starter lantern is either a 220 2 mantle or a 200A single mantle. Both are very easy to repair, parts are readily available. Either of those is a good place to jump in at. Doug

[mikeschn]

Thanks Doug,

That's what I'll look for then!

Do you have a time chart that shows when the various models of 220 came out? For example, when did the 220J come out?

Mike...