In June my wife and travelled down to Washington for the ICCC convention. I put the word out that I was looking for a Coleman No. 1 camp stove. It's been my holy grail since I began collecting almost twenty years ago. Frank Bebb of Old Town Coleman Center came through with not one, but two. I've spent the last few weeks restoring the earlier of the two, a "Patents Applied For" specimen. I'm pretty happy with the end result. There were some pinholes in bottom of the tank at the low end, so I treated it with Caswell epoxy. Other than that, the restoration was pretty straightforward.
Pretty nice work, mine isn’t quite as nice of a job. I didn’t pick up anything at the Convention except a Bigfoot chimney and a small alcohol torch. Duane
Boy that is one true black beauty. You are going to enjoy using that stove for sure. Fine example for the gallery.
Dang that's purty!!! Mine is the hillbilly version of that classy looking thing you've got. A lot of work, well done.
HI @Bill Klock , Outstanding job on the restoration of your older #1 Coleman! That's a favorite stove of mine, and it is an amazingly powerful and versatile workhorse!! Someday, I'd love to do something similar to one of my own Coleman #1 models. My best one is still painted red, which some previous owner did. The seller told me that it was red, because it was used in the US Army Medical Department, during WWII! What a crock! In any case, a lovely job on that wonderful stove, Bill! Thanks for sharing it with us, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
I've got a second that I acquired at the same time. It's a later specimen and looks generally to be in better shape than this one was. At any rate, it runs and doesn't leak, which couldn't be said for this one. Someone seems to have used it up until fairly recently. Funny thing is that they tried to paint it to match the current models: green body and red tank. I'm hoping to get to work on it fairly soon. Its only real challenge is that at some point one of the tab hinges for the grate surround either broke or rusted off and the previous owner just lifted it and re-curled the remaining stub around the wire, leaving the whole thing sitting at an angle. I think I'm just going to cut it off, cut a new tab, and either JB Weld it over the old tab or see if I can find someone to spot-weld it.
