I have owned a couple of high-dollar Petromax/Britelyt pressurized lanterns. I found those expensive brands to be overly complex and prone to failure. For our emergency lighting, we settled on; A. the small Fueurhand kerosene lanterns (German made and easily maintained), B. Aladdin lamps (without the Genie) for indoor use, and C. Coleman kerosene and dual fuel lanterns for outdoor use (Simple construction, easy to rebuild). I do recommend using Peerless mantles instead of the Coleman brand for a brighter light output. Thanks for the video.
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Old ones are more complicated to fire up initially but a much better valve design with no schrader valve or orings prone to failure like the newer ones
🐺 Well I'll be. First time every seeing someone trying to light a lantern with a zippo lighter . I was holding my breath cause I just knew with the gas turn on the fumes was building up in the lantern and you holding the lighter where the flame couldn't reach the mantles as long as you did I just knew there was going to be a big boom . Then I thought well there's a easy way and a hard way to light a lantern and I reckon you decide to go with the hard way lol . 🇺🇲🦅
when there out fuel and you put new fuel in it takes it abit for the gas get all the way threw the filter,it should light every time now,unless you run out fuel and let it set some time than it do this again.it like the paprer filter dry out and you have wait for it to get pass the filter.
I've been buying my Peerless mantles through American Mantles not realizing they were Yttrium. How can I find Thorium mantles in the US? Thank you for the video.
I'm pretty confident I know what the OP did wrong with the lighting. There wasn't enough air pressure to force the fuel up through the generator. He comments as he is closing the pump to hold your thumb over the air hole, but I question based on his hand position if he was covering this hole while pumping. The camera microphone does pick up some hissing which is a sign of at least some pressure in the tank, but I really question if it was enough. If you ever have some question whether you have an issue (such as a bad pump), just unscrew the gas cap. If it releases quite a bit of pressure after pumping, the pump is fine. But if the pressure release is minimal you either have a bad pump or you pumped it incorrectly to begin with. Another point about the pumping. Even with the air hole covered, it should pump smoothly. If you got a lot of resistance, there is an issue. I will say this. I own two 295a lanterns and a single burner camp stove. Last year I replaced the pump on one of the lanterns (worked like a champ afterwards) and probably today I'm going to be replacing the pump on the camp stove due to a failure to light during a recent test. The online vendor I go through rarely has the replacement pumps in stock. So I do suspect these pumps are high failure items. Other than a gummed up lantern from using low quality gasoline instead of white gas, there really isn't anything else that can go wrong with them.
Not quite, the op did pump the gas correctly, his issue was the generator wasn’t hot enough to vaporize the gas being pushed up through it, because once lit, there were flames for the first few seconds, flames are an indication of flooding, in the past Coleman has recommended that if there are flames when first lighting to just dial the valve back to a 1/4 open, the few seconds of flames are enough to warm up the generator and the mantles will light up correctly. Whenever you’re having trouble lighting a lantern, a good tip is to first warm up the generator with a match, lighter or even a small torch, it usually works like a charm.
Your description stated dual fuel, but obviously that is a dual mantle Colman lantern. If you could actually come up with a dual fuel lantern / propane / kerosene I'd be happy to watch your review.
@@niceyblasters1093 can you do a vid showing ht switch between the two fuels I'd like to see that. It's been quite a few years since I last purchased lantern mantles but I vaguely remember that there was a difference between the two types dependant on the fuel. I'm probably remembering wrong, but..... I'd still like to see a video of you switching between them. I've used a single mantel propane unit about 10 years ago, it's probably been closer to 20 years since I used a dual mantle kerosene model.
The first thing to tell anyone that buys a mantle lantern is the first burn looks like a runaway flash off fire, as the mantles cook off to become the web of ash. Lasts 30 seconds...don't try to put it out or you'll damage the new mantle. It us good you showed first fire with the roof and chimney glass off. That is correct. After that first burnaway never touch the mantles again. They are just powder and ash now.
@@niceyblasters1093 I bought one of these lanterns specifically for using unleaded gasoline as its so much cheaper than white gas... I've run it for hundreds of hours on gasoline with absolutely no problems.
