Im trying to find any information on an old stove I found. It is a 2-burner small suitcase style stove. The nameplate says CAMP MATE Made by HYDRO CARBON LIGHT COMPANY Seattle Wa. It has a tank, but no pump. Im trying to figure out what it used as fuel, and if it is worth cleaning up for use or just junk. Any help would be appreciated
Hey, Timber01, Sorry, I have never heard of your stove, but it's quite possible that someone else on this forum has. We have some very knowledgeable members who live near the Seattle area, and maybe they've heard of the Hydro Carbon Light Company. Ed, Gerry, Hobo, any ideas, Gentlemen? Keep the faith, T01, hopefully, someone will eventually come up with the info you seek. How about posting a photo of your stove? Welcome to the CCS site. If you spend some enjoyable time perusing the TONS of outstanding stove information that can be found on this site, and I'm sure you'll find something of interest. Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc Mark
Thank you, and I have pictures, but no way to post them. I have no website. I can e-mail them if anybody wants. I hope somebody knows something. I can't find anybody in Seattle who knows of this company. of when they went out of business. Thanks again! Tim
Hi you can upload your pictures to photobucket.com for free, and then post a message with a link to them. The photobucket.com site gives you the code, so alll you have to do is copy/paste it from their website onto your message here BTW, the Hydro Carbon Light Company was the orignal company formed by W.C Coleman and later became the Coleman company. http://www.coleman.com/coleman/ColemanCom/newsrelease.asp?releasenum=162
When I was a callow yoot in the early 60's, I was detailed out to get the carburetor from the diesel burning galley range in my Sea Scout Unit's ex US Army 38' picket boat repaired. I wrapped the carb. in an oily rag, and with it secured in a paper bag from the local Tradewell Supermarket, I climbed on a Seattle Transit trackless trolley for a ride from Ballard to Belltown where Hydrocarbon Light Co. had a storefront on First Avenue near Bell Street. A very nice man at the front counter pulled a toolkit out from under it and removed some parts which he took into the back. Five minutes or so later he came back with a small cardboard box containing a brand new carburetor, said it was covered by the Coleman Co. warranty and if it failed again, I was to bring it back. No charge. That galley range had been installed when the boat was built for the US Army in 1942. I seriously doubt it had ever been serviced. He also gave me an instruction sheet on the proper operation and maintainence of the oil stove in the boat. Very helpful. Gerry
This is the stove. Looks like it uses an external pump like some of the Coleman table lamps and lanterns do. Check out ebayUS.
Greetings, All, Ian, thanks for the great photos! This is a neat stove, but it appears to need lots of "TLC", and more than a little "elbow grease". However, with care, and some fettling adventures, I'll bet it can be made to burn once more!! I'll be interested to see if this happens, and how it looks when it's all fettled up, painted, and burning! Good luck, Timber01, and please let us know how it turns out. Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc Mark
Gerry you have me wondering if that very same vessel didn't later become the vessel i was on out of Edmonds Harbour. Perhaps we were both on the same vessel. the vessel i was "stationed" on was named, 23 Skidoo. Humm, i was on her for about a year between 65-66 lance BTW: Timber01 If you don't want to take the time to repair and operate that beautifull old stove i'd be most interested in doing so. A challange i would most admire. pss: No i am not trying to steal it from him, i just like bits of my home town heritage. 8) That is truely one of them. lp
Not exactly for light weight camping though. Nice stove, nice project. Keep us up to date on your progress. Or send it to me free of packaging and postage and I'll give it a good home
It looks to me as if the stove uses a non-attatched pump similar to the ones for Coleman type table lamps. Lance, our boat was the SES Liahona. We moored in Ballard at the old Seattle Police dock at the foot of 24th Ave N.W. We accumulated the most lot of goodies because the Army Corps of Engineers Debris Scow, a sternwheel Steamboat, the WT Preston, was based at the Locks a few blocks away. Between them and the Police patrol boat finding loose things floating in Lakes Washington, Union and the Ship Canal, we were given life jackets, fenders, skiffs, dinghys, canoes, and all manner of goods that were lost overboard. Windstorms were a particularly good source of freebies. You'd be amazed at the amount of stuff that blows overboard even in a protected area like Seattle's inland harbor. Anything in the "Over 30 Days" pile was up for grabs, and as we were there first every time we got the good stuff. We found a five gallon square tin with no label one time, and opened it to find it filled with pasteboard packets of British Navy lifeboat rations dated 1911. None of the stuff in it was obviously spoiled, but we were pretty leery of it. I think at 49 years it was getting a bit long in the tooth. Gerry
Hi Tim If Ian's photos are your stove, it looks very similar to Gary's Lakeside Stove. Actually, Ian saw this at the Mini Northern Meet No 2. Take a look at the photos in THIS POST |imgRemoved|
Yes that is my stove. It is simmilar to the pictures in the other post. I have had it for some time, but never got around to cleaning it, and I had no idea what fuel it uses. I really want to clean it up & try it. You are right it is not light. I would not want to take it on a long hike. Does this use regular camp stove fuel & a external pump? I will clean it up & re-post my progress. Thank you all very much!!!
Timber01 your stove uses unleaded white gasoline aka Coleman fuel. If you send me a PM with your snail mail address i will send you a pump for your stove. And that is a deal you can't beat with a club. lance
