Ye Ole Faithful Lantern

[nosticks]

Unbelievable!

Today I finally decided to clean out the shed. It contained many little treasures, most of which I long forgot about. The biggest surprise was finding my old Coleman Gas Lantern. I have had it about 45 years and long thought I'd lost it. It was in a dusty broken down whiskey box I used for moving many years ago. It just followed me from place to place. The last time I used it was at least 30 years ago.

So I took it out and cleaned it up. The old mantels still were intact so I was careful not to disturb them. It was also half full of gas. Back then in my tent camping days I used Amoco High Test, never did use the Coleman fuel, too expensive. I pulled the pump out and lubed it with machine oil and put it back. To my amazement it was in pretty good shape. I never thought it would light, but after pumping it up, a few twirls on the generator to clear it and one match and I had light.

Now I have emptied the antique gas, and I'm going to flush it out, put new mantels on it and fill it with some good fuel. Probably use it at the far end of the campsite to draw bugs.