Coleman 530 camp stove – first lighting in yonks…
Hoo boy, this was fun. A 1947 Coleman 530 I bought for about 12 years ago and have never looked at (moved the the UK, donchaknow) in all that time. I do not know how long it had been sitting before that, but as the tank was bone dry and odour free, I suspect a good long while. My folks v kindly shipped it over and after a quick squirt of WD40 the pump started to work, but she wouldn't hold any pressure - the O-ring around the filler plug had perished and petrified, so I chipped it out with a screwdriver and fitted a replacement. Filled her with paraffin (as close to Coleman fuel as I've found here - I know purists are going to get upset it seems to be working, see next vid - plus it goes like a bomb in my Tilley lamp) and WHOOSH. There was a leak where the vaporiser threads into the tank, which accounts for some of what happened next, and improperly vapourised paraffin kept shooting up in odd bursts (probably just years of disuse), hence the big orange flames, but see video 2: dismantling and cleaning made it run 100 times better, still needs a bit of attention...
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