Lantern Mantles? Coleman or generic?

What's that Lassie? You say that Jim Wilkins fell down the old rec.crafts.metalworking mine and will die if we don't mount a rescue by Fri, 2 Jan 2009 08:26:12 -0800 (PST):

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Lol, I have an optimus half brick that can overheat and shoot flames out the pressure relief on the fuel tank. That can clear a snow fields hut in quick time. {:-).

You also get a rep for coolness when you use the billy lifters to calmly pick it up and nonchalantly walk outside to place it in the snow for cooling. So long as it is venting, it isn't sucking oxygen to explode {:-).

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That's OK in summer, in winter they need a fire UNDER the stove. Or the accessory air pump.

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A gallon of Coleman Fuel will give you light all evening long for weeks.

What kit? What are you replying to?

Sounds interesting. Batteries should show the

Has anyone got the data? How many BTU in a galon of Coleman fuel, and how many hours of light? Would be nice to know.

The text you quoted appeared in a news group post which had this text (which you trimmed):

They have upsizing adapters that came in the kit. I'm not sure how much life I will get out of upsizing an AA battery to a D cell. I'm going through a few too many disposable batteries in this household, so I'm going to try it. ===END QUOTE=====

Thank you for reducing bandwidth by trimming text. The kit was Sanyo battery rechargables.

All I did was to hit Reply. Your top posting and .sig delimiter did the rest automagically.

I heard tell once that someone had a switching regulator device worked out where you could put several AA's in the space of each D-cell, wired in series, and then the regulator drove the bulb appropriately. Intended for the large mag lights.

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:57:48 -0500, "Stormin Mormon" wrote in :

From MSDS: 17,900 BTU/lb. (Av.) SG: 0.69 (Av.) = 5.76 lb/gal (US) (not including the can)

So a little more than 100k BTU/gal.

Depends on the lantern, one mantle or two, how much you pump the fount, how often you clean the generator, etc, etc. You can also tweak the geneterator tip cleaner to lower the light which will get you more burn time. I've never counted the hours. Sounds like something to do while waiting for the snow to melt.

Buy one and find out.

thanks dude, need something, drop me an email

Gunner

"Upon Roosevelt's death in 1945, H. L. Mencken predicted in his diary that Roosevelt would be remembered as a great president, "maybe even alongside Washington and Lincoln," opining that Roosevelt "had every quality that morons esteem in their heroes.""

A single fill, of a standard Coleman 1 mantle lantern, will burn for nearly 8 hours if not turned all the way up. You will have to pump it up 2x on average. About 30 seconds of pumping each time.

A double mantle will run for about 5 hours with 2x pumping. if turned up

Ive used them for years for night fishing off piers and canals and have fallen asleep at 11pm and they were still guttering along at 7am if it was a hot night

You really need to find a single mantle lantern, and a gallon of fuel, and try the experment your self. Oh..get the small fuel funnel as well. Or the spring loaded fueling adapter that screws to the top of the can. Either makes fueling them up much much easier

Gunner

"Upon Roosevelt's death in 1945, H. L. Mencken predicted in his diary that Roosevelt would be remembered as a great president, "maybe even alongside Washington and Lincoln," opining that Roosevelt "had every quality that morons esteem in their heroes.""