[IMG]Flame shot of my first Franky.Going to be fitting the pot support in a few days.It's half Coleman 220 lantern and half Coleman 530 pocket stove.
Pictures are posted over in the Frankie section.
Burner is mounted to the tank and works very nicely.
I decided not to fix the 530.After really inspecting it I found all the solder joints to be compromised and the heat from the fire had distorted...
Well I managed to pick up two 502 Colemans for $20.00 each.One of them was made two months before me.Dated 2-73 the other one is dated 6-65.
For some odd reason I have become very interested in the single burner stoves.
Oh I already have about a half dozen multi burner Colemans.We used to do a lot of group camping.A normal meal would take a two burner and a three...
It all started with the Optimus No7 I picked up a little while back.Now I'm getting ready to make a 120 mile or more round trip to look at some...
[ATTACH] Action shot,making tea.
Well I'm finally going to do something constructive with the No7.I'm making a pot of tea for my wife and I out on the porch.
The pump body has a tube attached to the bottom that curves upward. When you try to pull the pump body out it only comes out so far before the...
The wires in the first photo are part of a homemade trivet the former owner installed.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Optimus No7 .
I use a marine high temp grease on just about everything I own.Got a bunch of it for free.It's water proof and heat resistant.We packed some...
Would an old school lead solder be good for this joint?Or would I want to use a modern plumbing solder?
This is the solder joint in question. [ATTACH]
I'm not the best at this whole interweb thing.:lol:
How do you add pictures?I do not use photo bucket.Is there a way to post pictures directly from my computer?
What type of solder should I use?I have Just about every kind of solder you can think of.Plumbers solder,real lead solder,electrical,silver.
Figured out where the solder came from.This stove had to have been in a fire.The pump body looked like it was sticking up too far.And it was.The...
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