perterra
Adventurer
Does anybody else carry lanterns. I'm starting to think I must be the last of the lantern users. For the most part I use propane now days, but I'm starting to think about a kerosene or multi fuel lantern again. I have a couple of old liquid fuel Colemans (3 actually) a single mantle and a couple of double mantles, One of the double mantles is probably best used as a firebomb as lighting it usually entails a large fireball, smoking eye brows and throwing the damn thing 15 feet or so away from anything flammable. I've rebuilt the damn thing probably 4 times and its great for the first few months, then it starts the pyrotechnics again. The other 2 seem to do okay, but its getting where you cant buy some of the parts for 40 year old Colemans anymore so I'm thinking of upgrading.
So heres the qaundry, I looked at the petromax's at britelytes http://www.britelyt.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=BPP&Category_Code=500CP
A little pricey, but appear heck for stout. Problem is if you start researching them and reading fine print it appears they come from China now. Nothing against Chinese but I hate subsidizing prison labor.
So anybody use Colemans anymore? The propane coleman northstar I use now is pretty doggone bright, and easy to use, but I really want a fuel lantern... so I'm looking for ideas. Coleman northstar liquid fuel lantern maybe?
By the way, the one that goes motorcycle camping with me is a little coleman exponent.
http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colemancom/detail.asp?product_id=9970-725&categoryid=24757
About the size of a beer can and about as bright as a 30 watt light bulb. Uses a refillable tank that you just plug one of their powermax fuel cartriges into like a cigarette lighter. Runs about 6 hours on a filling and the big fuel cartrige will fill it a bunch of times.
Also what about cigarette lighters, anybody use the high dollar ones?
So heres the qaundry, I looked at the petromax's at britelytes http://www.britelyt.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=BPP&Category_Code=500CP
A little pricey, but appear heck for stout. Problem is if you start researching them and reading fine print it appears they come from China now. Nothing against Chinese but I hate subsidizing prison labor.
So anybody use Colemans anymore? The propane coleman northstar I use now is pretty doggone bright, and easy to use, but I really want a fuel lantern... so I'm looking for ideas. Coleman northstar liquid fuel lantern maybe?
By the way, the one that goes motorcycle camping with me is a little coleman exponent.
http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colemancom/detail.asp?product_id=9970-725&categoryid=24757
About the size of a beer can and about as bright as a 30 watt light bulb. Uses a refillable tank that you just plug one of their powermax fuel cartriges into like a cigarette lighter. Runs about 6 hours on a filling and the big fuel cartrige will fill it a bunch of times.
Also what about cigarette lighters, anybody use the high dollar ones?