Depending on what you call "CLASSIC" OR "CAMPING" this is one big stove. See; Auction Watch, Old Coleman patented 1921. and look at the stove in Terry Marsh's site. From what i can tell, as of now only, the burner has that patent date. Now enter into the equation one owner with likely only one wrench and it is an adjustable "Cresent type" and that overly large for the job and you get a thin wall brass tank with a hole in it where the feed line exits to the generator. Fella must have had more braun than brains. And not one hole but 3 or 4. The wind screen is tin plated. i will be sending it out to have it replated. and might even send out all the parts for cleanup. it depends on how much junk i clean from the fuel tank in the nest day or so. Pictures when i learn how to get them in here. lance
Great looking stove, Lance, and a great price too whether it needs a lot of work or not. Having seen your fettling tutorial on brazing, I reckon you'll put the tank back into good shape pretty quick. All the best, John
Hey lance, Might be able to find grates from a fairly modern gas range that would do if the measurements are sorta close. In the alternative, find one of those small artist foundry types and maybe get a handful made out of cast iron. You'd have to build a pattern and I guess that a foundry would sand cast something like that. I've just said more than I know about sand casting. There used to be an old blacksmith in a neighboring town that did cast iron work, but thats been years ago. It can be done though and maybe not too expensively. Best, Bob
Found this link to metal casting. Might be a whole new fettling skill to learn to cast metal....not to mention a new career. http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/index.html Best, Bob
Wonderfull site, visited it many times! This chap even makes his own burners 8) (like biiiggg stoves ). Worth a try one day (looking forward to retirement, so that I have time to do all this wonderfull stuff 8) but that's still tooooo many years ahead of me ). Regards, Wim
Nice stove Lance: The one I had also came to me sans grates. I used grates off a later Coleman cabin stove. It is a strong stove I am sure you will like it. Mike... Mike...
Lance: I just joined the forum and found this topic regarding the Coleman Model 140. Needless to say, I was quite surprised when I clicked on the eBay link and found that it was the same as my stove. I was the owner of the Bungalow Cooker that is featured on Terry Marsh's site. Bungalow Cooker is the correct name of your stove. Your stove is a 1925 model BUT it has the '24 vintage preheating shroud. Your center burner cap and generator are the same as found on the 5052 Handy Gas Plant of the same vintage. When I obtained mine, the center burner cap was 50% gone, generator 100% plugged up and the right lateral burner cap was broken in half and minus a few of the grills on top. Yours looks to be in much better shape than mine was in the beginning. The wind shield that came with yours is not factory. These cookers only came with a pot rest shelf that utilized 3 s-shape tabs which inserted into slots on the back side of the surface cover and laid flat. Also, it utilized a catch pan underneath the burner assembly. The official name of the burner assembly is a Model 718 Master Burner Unit. I wish you the very best of luck in your restoration of this cooker. Hopefully, yours will not take as long to restore as mine did. Mine took well over 3 months to do but then, there was an awful lot of metal repairing to be done on mine, not to mention re-creating a pre-heating generator. Mine was half gone.
