camping lanterns ( A.K.A pressure lanterns)

[Weirdnerd]

I have been a fan of kerosine/white gas lanterns for a long time , I fell in love with them in Peru, after many campings where the smell of kerosine mingled with laughs and good times, lately I stumbled on two of those, an old Coleman cl2, and a quite modern Coleman North Star, the CL2 was in a sorry state, no glass globe, and the excentric block melted in the regulator ( silly plastic Chinese stuff)..took me a while to remove the solid stuff and rebuilt it with brass parts, now I am making a heat shield to protect the regulator and installed a spark starter, the North Star is very nice, no work needed, and quite bright,.

One of my all time favorites is the old style Petromax, ( before 1960) takes patience to start it, but once lit, is simply unstoppable, I am currently trying to find one on pawn shops and flea markets..hehe...I guess my next outing with my teardrop will be low orbit observable at night....

What lantern make and model is your favorite?

[Ratkity]

Come on over to the vintage thread!! There are kerosene and white gas sniffers there to enable your collection habit.

Hugs,
Ratkity

[Weirdnerd]

I am old style in a way that I like to fix stuff, the more complicated, the happier I am..

I made an " experiment" a long time ago, a compact camping stove the size of a evaporated milk can, using kerosene, and a pressurized container, during the "research and development" phase I ended up with no eyebrows...but after all the kinks were ironed out, it worked fine, one of my buddies still uses it down south...after almost twenty years!

[eamarquardt]

the smell of kerosine mingled with laughs and good times

I feel pretty much the same about diesel fumes. Reminds be of being on dive boats and on my own 38' sloop that I sold when I became too ill to maintain it.

Cheers,

Gus

[LDK]

I have a coleman fuel and a coleman propane lantern and earlier today I ordered this LED lantern from amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/Rayovac-SE3DLN-Sp ... B0018S4XIS

It has a really good review and I thought, what the heck.