Coleman Peak 1 Feather 400B -where do I start?

Just picked up the above mentioned stove in a Sigg Tourist set. This is my first Coleman, so I did a search here & found a lot of info but no one list of things to check or do before trying to light it. YouTube has videos on taking them apart & putting them together but hopefully I can at least try to light it and see what I have. The Tourist set has obviously been heavily used so presumably this stove has too. From the smell, it has Coleman fuel in it last but...

So if anyone can point me to some info on what to look for & what to do, that would be great. Thanks.

 

All I can say is what I’d personally do: take it outside, fuel it and light it per stated instructions. See how it does.
Go from there.

 

It wouldn't pump up so I replaced the rubber cup with a leather one from a Coleman latern (how is one supposed to get those push nuts loose?). Pumped it up and lit it. Does this look right? Seems like the cup around the pot support and teh post support iteself got awful hot awful quickly. Boiled water well though. And much quieter than my Svea 123 and the like.

 

That's a beautiful flame. You found yourself one fine stove

 

Looks good! The nice thing about these stoves is that the instructions are printed right on the fuel tank. The only thing you need to do first is check that the fuel cap seal and pump cup are ok.

....Arch

 

Looking good, nice.

 

Might be running a skosh lean? Is that fresh fuel or whatever was in there?

 

All the contemporary singles burn like that.

 

That’s a shame. The earlier Peak 1 models were excellent.

 

I count all 400, 576, 508 and 533 style stoves as contemporary.

I own 3 - a 400nl, a 508nl, and a 533.

All of them have slightly yellow flame tips, which looks worse on camera.

I believe it comes from the ionization of the steel burner bowl - the iron ions make a translucent flame that is slightly yellow.

Not a big deal, and performance is still very good.

 

That flame looks good to me, the way I see it if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

 

Just checked the pictures I took of my 401, also 9/83 and the flame looks good to me, the yellowish tinge may disappear with some running.
Here's a couple pics of mine:-

 

I'm of the same opinion. With my 533 and a couple of other Coleman single-burner stoves the flame is blue at lower heat. But an orange tint in the flames becomes very apparent at high settings when the metal becomes red hot. There is no evidence of soot on the pots.

 

I agree with @itchy, I've never found any soot on any of the pans I've used, very clean in that respect.
Tim

 

Looks better after fresh fuel and a little use.

 

I would say so!

“They all burn like that” was twaddle

 

That's the way to do it, perfect!

 

Agree with the others reference the red hot metal and yellow orange tinted upper flames. It's burning as it should. The optimum flames are blue green(seafoam) coming out of the burner rings. The orange tint above is simply the off gassing of the red hot metal parts. This is a very basic gas chromatography experiment in real life. Even the slightest traces of substances in flame influence the flame colors. You can artificially reproduce this by preheating the generator with a torch and running it on HIGH. You will see no orange tint until the burner bowl gets hot. This one's running perfectly fine.

 

To be clear, it is now, it was not running correctly prior.

 

Yes, I must admit, I've never seen such a drastic difference from old fuel. Still learning new things. That's why I'm here. But to be clear, there was nothing wrong with the stove. Given the fuel it was burning it was doing the best job it could. haha!