A Coleman 426A Stove and a Deitz no. 80 highway flare.

What did that set you back?

I have enjoyed many deer camp breakfasts off one of those stoves

#PBR

Sheesh! Hold to the camp site.

I gave 15 bucks for the flare and 75 for the stove.

I didn't have the money to waste.....but sometime spending a little cash can help you feel better about yourself!

That looks like my parent's stove that was stolen off a picnic bench in twin harbors state park in 1966.

You’re rich

SxS stove?

For 75 bucks you coulda bought some shiny trinkets from China.

Year on bottom of stove?

They didn’t have any guns?

Pffft... no Blackstones?

Can you use the road flare for beer can chicken?

I just looked and didnt see a number anywhere.

Website I looked at said that the 426A was made in the very early 50's.

They did.


A Model 37 Ithaca 16 gauge.


It was pretty rough. The buttstock had been refinished...sort of. The checkering was gone and all the pastic was proud.

The metal was proud on the receiver.


They wanter 875 for it. I thought it was too much....even though I would love another 16.

Too much.

Huh, usually a stamp somewhere.

Nice find.

Is that chalking on the tank?

They have any smudge pots?

Solder!

😳

That stove runs on white gas.

Some of the new Colemans run on propane. I find that easier during power outages.

Some people call that road flare a smudge pot...but as I understand it, a smudge pot is a large diesel burning device used in orchards to prevent frost damage to the buds.

Yes

Ate many a breakfast, lunch and dinner cooked on one just like that when I was a kid. My dad liked to camp, fish, fish some more, eat a little, fish some more...clean fish then eat dinner. That brings back some very pleasant memories. Thank you!

Congrats and cool find.

Geno lookie Jimmy's new play toys

Yeah, I was reading through the WW111 thread and missed this one until now.

Way cool, as in Coolamundo Baby!

Especially the road flare. That's some scheidt there for sure.

Probably should look for an old Coleman stove too. didn't know they had gotten that spendy.

A rube goldberg soldering job on a pressurized gasoline tank

lol

Yep,

could have at least used some JB Weld.

Oh but the eggs and fried taters we used to cook on that thing in ‘52

Reminds me of 16 ga paper shotshells...the smell.

Doesn't look like solder to me.

Looks more like an epoxy.

Be careful Jim.

More than one old timer's cabin burned down with one of them things or the Coleman lantern going to hell.

Old folks around here say they used to light smudge pots and put in the yard when someone died.

Back in the days before FB and cel phones and chit.

Back when “sitting up with the dead” was a thing.

Heard of my grannie talk about gong to so and so’s house and uncle Tommy be laid out in the living room.

Body stayed there till the grave.

I know where one of those is sitting right now at a pawn shop, marked 50 bucks.

75 bucks seems high for the stove. I have one fro the 80s. I'm saving it for the apocalypse.

I like the road flare. That is very cool.

I miss the one we used camping growing up, but the new model propane models are stupid easy too.

Have fun with it!!!

The stove appears to be in great condition.

Pump, pump, pump, pump, pump...

Sucks I'm so old I remember seeing those road flares in use.

My father told me his dad was in the living room for a day and a half. Neighbors took turns all night "sitting up".

He said another neighbor that worked for the state put out the smudge pots in the front yard.

1952 or 53 I think.

Jim, you think the tank had a pin hole and sum dude tried to soft solder it?

I vaguely remember those flares from my childhood in the early 70's. Very cool finds.

Well.....
I made a nice post about another use for that bad boy using house hold materials and it involving curious Liberal Socialist Democrats.

Bravo oscar oscar mike chaka laka mutha fuggas.....

1000 ways to delta India echo type of stuff.

But I deleted it ....

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Just pump the thing up .
Put water on the solder.
Check for leaks.
Resolder.
No biggie

Spray paint the tank matte red engine paint if the looks bother you.



Cool score man!!!

Have my late 70's Coleman stove put up with extra NIB pump assbly. and regulator along with a can of Coleman fuel.
It's a dual fuel so I guess I could run unleaded in it in a pinch.

It's ready for the apocalypse or SHTF scenario.

I’ve got a bunch of that old azz Coleman stuff I ought to do something with. I will never use it again.

I will buy you a tank of gas to head north with it!

Or maybe you could hid it in Birdy's fanny pack when he comes north again.

That's sure what it looks like to me.

LOL! Well! That gives me another reason to visit Jim and the brood. You never know where I’ll turn up! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hahahaha!

At least I got to read it first!

You are a wild man!


Trouble is......incandescent light bulbs are harder to find!

Best to keep the livestock outta the house just in case....Don’t want a Chicago fire on the Hi-Line.

😝🦫

Three burners... That the dee-lux model...

I forgot. Mine only has two!

Family model.

Haha. Me too.

For sure.

I'll bet Hanco could lay down a pretty silver solder job on that tank.

I could mess it up worse.

Wonder if they brazed the end caps on that tank?

Cool find Jim !

SSE will buy that stove off you for 2fiddy !

In an effort to fool Darwin, I've repaired a lot of vintage fuel tanks, mostly on military vehicles......if you file that glob of solder down, locate the pinhole, tin a penny or a strip of flattened brass cartridge case with 60/40 acid core, and put the penny/strip over the hole or seam and then apply the heat with an old school soldering iron, no open flame, you will get a good strong job. Last thing you want is a pressurized tank of fuel splitting open just before breakfast. Silver solder, you're looking at 700 deg's...plain ol' 60/40 at 450 or so.

Every now and again one of the maintenance sections would come up with one from out in their shop area. I well remember them too!! And the old wooden 6-8” dia. silver painted with black band at the top delineator posts! They had a silver reflector in the black band. They weren’t too crashworthy. 🤣🤣🤣

A family friend soldered a leaky gas tank on a Super M, with gas leaking out at the time.

I understand he scattered any bystanders.

Got to thinking. Bad thing. Do they still use those old smugde pots at the rifle range? Like we did in boot camp? We used em to blacken the front sight on our rifles while at practice and qualification.

Convert it to propane. $25

Guy's sporting a Packers t-shirt so you know he's a genius.

I almost forgot about those

PBR beer

hope you didn't drink that schidt......

Been puttin those done for nearly 50 years. One of the finer schidt beers around.

That propane converter is a game changer. All my white fuel Coleman stuff needs clog repair, generators etc. Most found these days that have been idle, will need attention


Various propane adapters are available, filling the little camping bottles from grill tanks or bigger is now easy & a lot cheaper per gallon.

That sounds very handy and convenient.


I don't like either of those things.

Ha, ha !

You're a good man Jim !

Are you still looking for primers? Natchez has federal large rifle as of a few minutes ago. Better get em quick if you need em.

Thanks for the heads up!

They were already out of small pistol.

What's a reasonable price for those things? I have 4 that I never use (1's missing the wick). With the price of oil, it's cheaper to let the trees freeze and just buy fruit.

Just a few days ago I saw several of those for sale on Craigslist in Tucson. They were asking $150.00 each. I thought it was high. Don't know if they sold or not. Maybe that will help.

I am mistaken. They are asking $170.00 to $175.00 a piece for the smudge pots or orchard pots. I still think it is high.

at matches we all used carbide miner's lamps. Open the reservoir, spit on the carbide, close it, and stare a spark like a cigarette lighter. Later they came out with a spray can of black stuff but it wasn't as black.

$35 would be too high

Like old milk cans, I would just set em out in the yard for lawn ornaments

Wish I could find one them little sambo lawn jockeys

If you can find them for a good deal, the old metal porch gliders from the 50s and 60s are worth a fortune to the right people. We had strangers knock on our door and try to buy ours. We got scared somebody would steal the damn thing and put it in the basement. Ours isn't even in great shape.

I know where there's one by my lake place.

Leaking tank with a band aid applied by someone who can't solder.

Paid over twice what it cost today.......Brand NEW.
That pawn shop is glad he got a good donation today.
He probably has a stolen rifle for 3x the price too. 😄

Your brain doesn't have wrinkles in it, does it?

You are just another pervert Never Trumper.

I think you acquired a stalker Jim.

I have two of those white gas stoves.One was never used.Also have 4 white gas Coleman Lanterns.They are the best thing for tracking wounded deer at night.For some reason they make the blood glow.

Yep...moving up in the world!

Those lanterns are great. Good memories. Can you still get mantles?

Yes. Readily.

I used to have one of those (stove) around here somewhere. I remember scalding turkeys over it about twenty-five years ago. But don't have a clue where it went.

Instead, I recently purchased a Camp Chef style propane stove for mixing lead alloys. I don't know if the Coleman would have produced the BTUs to hold a CI dutch oven with 100# of alloy at 750 degrees.

I is rich. 3 two burners, 2 3 burners, 2 flares, single mantle lantern. AND a coleman kerosene lantern

Probably not.

I have a bunch of kidney fat I need to render into tallow.

Will use my camp chef stove for that.

Maybe back in 1950. Today he could not touch that stove new at twice what he paid. Used prices are driven by local markets and even then, the lows can often be sporadic. Said another way, one might wait a long time to see a low price and they tend to get snatched up quickly.

Walmart shows their Dual Fuel Guide Series two burner for over $200.

I have a Coleman 425 two burner I've gotten use out of for several decades. On occasion it would be nice to have that third burner, but it comes at a cost of decreased table/tailgate space. Coleman still shows the Liquid Fuel Stove (white gas only) with the red tank but it seems like stores only carry the gray tank Dual Fuel stove anymore.

I have an old Coleman 2 burner white gas stove with very little use. The reason it was used so little was because I discovered propane.

The coleman factory on industrial blvd here in clarksvegas went under 5 or 6 yrs ago IIRC.

Had a big auction event liquidating inventory.


Oh and JC....

Happy Camper eats special kitty seafood pate on great value ritz crackers for dinner every day.

Getting the most bang for the buck from his EBT card.

My 70's model dual fuel has a red tank.

Lol!!!!

A smooth........

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🧠🧠🧠😄😄😄😄😄

What is a flare?

Kerosene is cool. Whale oil is better. LOL First year of my marriage my wife and I used nothing but kerosene lamps, wood stove and an outside water pump powered by a Briggs and Stratton.

Didn't know they made dual fuel back then. Does the dual fuel burn gasoline cleanly? I've never used one but suspect it's better to run white gas for less soot buildup.

It's a very late 70's[hell possibly very early 80's now that I think more about it].
I've never used anything but white gas in it.

Bright and early with the 425.

This from a guy who glues fabric to his car, cuts up old suits for camo, and has to ask God for a socket set.
Crappy, have you ever had two dimes to rub together?

mantles for lanterns are a lot easier to find than generators (for lanterns or stoves) IME

This site might help identify old stuff.

terry marsh lantern gallery

Just went and looked in the garage, I have 5 of the large 2 burner and 3 small 2 burner. Up in the mountains I have a 3 burner like the 1 pictures and 1 each of the 2 burner. They are 60s/70s with the red tanks.

This is after selling 2 3 burners and about 6 of the 2 burners last year, after the wife no more... I sold them for 20 and 30 bucks, all tanks worked.

That older tank is from the 50s.

Mostly I run them off propane, converter with hose and tank, I will run them off white gas for the nostalgia occasionally.

First one I got for myself I found a 2 burner/large in a pile of junk behind my grandparents house, the tank was no good, I bought a converter for 10 bucks and painted it army green... 1978. Used it for many years, still have it.

Kent

I sold my 1970’s two burner, propane Coleman stove last year.
Still have two of the small, one burner propane stoves.

Sounds like a younger friend of mine. He'll step over a dollar to pick up a dime..... only if the dime will make it harder on him.

That's worth a beer.

That is a lot of stoves. I guess you just like stoves, eh?

I converted mine a long time ago. Same as Jim's, I got mine from my FIL so it must be from the early/mid 50s. I do wish I had the tank for it though.

Where do you plug it in?

I think it is same one used on the propane lanterns.However I have a bunch of them.