After a complete teardown and very enjoyable and educational Fettle, this is the latest Coleman Model 530 "A46", burning fuel, as William C. Coleman intended it to! Great little stove! Bullet Proof construction. Amazingly simple Engineering, but built Battleship tough!
Yes Nice!!! Very NICE!!!. Grand old American Stainless Steel. It doesn't get any better. When "Made in America" meant something.
Those were built to last, stainless and brass tank, it's amazing how many of those survive to this day, and run like the day they were made, given good fuel. I gave one of these to my son-in-law for his paintball re-enacatmant games, make for interesting meals out in the field! Murph
I'd use mine at work for glazing windows, worked better than any propane torch could, and cheaper, too!!! https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/had-a-go-at-a-customer-today.22971/#post-233839 Shop closed up, and they STILL laugh at that one! Murph
@Murph , Just went back and read the old post again. Good for another laugh @Stovost , Excellent stove AR
An 'A' and a 'B' and in the 'field' well the Bothy at Top Withens cooks blowtorch to pre-heat instead of a fuel prime
Here's a nice trick to make a good stove even better: Replace the generator nut with the one from a M1950 stove, same nut with a preheat cup and wick attached! Makes the stove real easy to fire up in very cold weather, and the preheat with alcohol works better then the belches of yellow flames while the stove warms up without a preheat, IMO. Murph
I think the same vaporizer nut is used on a wide range of stoves in this series. Here is a pic from my 2-burner 523. I have added fiberglass material to "soften" the pre-heat I'll see if I can find some other pics. Found it via https://www.oldcolemanparts.com/resources/man.php part # 520-359 used on both the 520 and 523 AR
The M1950 cup comes with a piece of glass fiber rope in it already, makes it much easier. Many of the parts interchange between the 520, 530, and M1950 AKA 536 or EX 50-1
Is this nut/preheat cup part, something one can purchase somewhere, or do you have to be lucky enough to find it on another stove?
Thanks, anlrolfe! I sent them an e-mail inquiry, about the Generator Nut/Preheat Cup availability. I'll let you guys know what they reply with!
I've got a salvaged valve assembly somewhere that I can try to find. My understanding is that the valve is the same on this entire series of stoves.