First teardown - Wife's BDay 200A - COMPLETE

[doug hodder]

Pull the knob, try a 1/2" box end wrench on the packing nut. It may be that it's just cranked down way too tight. Back it off and see if that frees it up. If not, pull the nut completely and shoot some PB blaster or some other sort of loosening agent in there an let-R-soak a bit. Just an idea. Doug

[DragonFire]

I thought of that, but thought I'd better run it by you guys in the know, instead of tearing apart whatever I could. I'll mess with it in a bit...I am SO close to getting that nut loose on the 220f...the cage shifted and I had to pound it back into place..it's that loose. It's getting cold and dark, I don't have a torch to heat the metal up, so I pb blasted it, wrapped a paper towel around it and blasted it again. I'll leave it until tomorrow when the pb has worked a bit. At least I have a second lantern and I can swap parts to get one 220f going. I looked at the vents and they both have chips...but nothing major. I think I'll clean them both up, make a franken-220F and see what I have left.


And in the mean time, I'll see if I can take that 200a apart a little...

[teardrop_focus]

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First light up of both lanterns.



These are the first gas powered lanterns I have used since I was in the boy scouts some 30+ years ago! But they won't be the last!!

This is exactly! how it started for me nearly two years ago... first lantern was a '62 cherry-red 200A, then Dear Old Gus found me a '56 tomato-soup-red 200A... then we were given another '62 as a wedding gift... and that made three.

When I set off on a two-hour drive to acquire a 242, I became a serious Coleman collector. Fast forward to today, I now have ten 200As... plus some 228s, 242s, 220s, 252s, 500s, 502s, 426s, etc... I'm having too much fun!

What was supposed to be a sidebar to my teardrop project took on a life of it's own... and it all started when, after seeing Doug's pic of all of his stoves glowing blue, lighted up in front of his house one twilight evening, I decided that white gas was the way to go.

I also knew that I wanted three lanterns... three.

I don't know what happened! ...but now that my collection is up to speed I'm ready to resume my teardrop. I've got! to make the IRG this year!