Colorado B.S. Thread

Saw this on Facebook

 

I sold a few AR's without a background check recently. Hope i don't get jammed up.

 

so... being the prick that I am..I'm going to pick apart that overpriced aluminum stove.

It's obviously patterned directly off the Coleman 425 line of stoves. Right down to the size of the stove and windscreen design. In fact it's modeled after the first edition of Coleman stove since it uses the bendy wire to hold the screens open. I have one of those.

The weight of 12 pounds, I'll assume that's dry weight with no propane bottle since it doesn't allow for storage of the fuel tank.

I just weighed my 425 with a full fuel tank...11.8 pounds. And that's all steel bro.

Plus it's several years old, and has been dropped and tossed, no dents and the latch works. It still fries bacon just fine. After a trip, I spray it with degreaser and hose it off. Has no signs of rust yet.

I've heard more than once of those aluminum jobs showing up dented during shipping wrapped in a box. Doesn't say much for strength.

That's all I got. In the end i suppose it produces enough btu's to boil water at altitude, so that's all that counts. I'm not sure what good a small flame is, but apparently it's impotent. It should look good in a photo with a fail-link displayed next to it and some grouse under glass next to a bottle of Fireball.

 

Love you too!

Haha where were you when I was looking for suggestions... Damn old folks always a day late and a dollar short with your wise remarks. It's on its way and it'll work just dandy for my uses... I hope.

 

But its expensive, your argument is invalid...

 

My Coleman propane stove sucks for flame control. It can go from burning water to out in a 1/16" of dial turn. It was free so I'm happy with it.

 

Take the generator tube apart and clean it out. Literally just spray some brake cleaner through it, then let it dry. That is most commonly what screws with the flame control.

I found an old 425 partially buried in the dirt a few years back, it was missing the fuel cap and was packed with mud. I think it fell out of the back of somebody's ride as ir was on the side of the trail.
I cleaned it up, bought a new cap from JAX, and it has been riding and cooking in the back of the truck ever since.

I won't deny that the newer models have shitty controls, I have a newer dual fuel lantern, the control sucks ass on it, it has to be constantly pumped, won't maintain any kind of pressure. I've had it apart numerous times trying to unfuck it. It's just the way it is. Turns out the lanterns now use a Schraeder type valve for the fuel flow. It's no different from a valve on your car tire except the pointy end is a little longer.

 

It is a new stove, used about 5 times now. Like I said, it is not worth spending any money to get a different one. I've become fluent in working the knob!

 

Hard to argue with the older Coleman stuff. The wife bought a treadmill used off of Craigslist 7 years ago and the guy threw in an old Coleman stove. Treadmill is long gone but the stove has kept on ticking despite looking its age.

 

I think your missing the point.

Aluminum=Cool points
Steel=none

But I use this. I've done a lot of backpacking back in the day and it still works great as old as it is.

 

I'm not missing any points, but I am however deducting points for over doing it. It's supposed to be camping. Some of you are surpassing the original $20 room at a Motel 6. I bet most of you don't even remember that. Now that was glamping at it's finest.

Here is my old back packing set, these are close to 30 years old.
Still work good too.


And the 425 briefcase stove collection.
The top one is the newest, purchased in early 2000 something.
The center was the one found buried in the mud, rides in the truck.
The bottom one was a pawn shop find, paid $20 for it. Works the best and gets used the least cause antique value.


It's interesting to see the changes through the years. One that is most noticeable is the reduction in the wind screen size. The tanks changed as well as the burners, and the addition of heat shields on the newer ones. The one on the far right had no heat shield and relied on being perched a bit higher to prevent burning the surface below it.
The early ones had full height screens. Through the years they became smaller.

All heating parts are still 100% interchangeable.


The newer ones are made of a type of textured super thin sheet metal, most likely to keep cost down.


Mid years models still used the heavier gauge sheet metal.
This is the mud stove, that's why it looks a little rough. I was so happy with how it worked after cleaning it up, that I thought it deserved to live out it's life continuing to fry up bacon.


And the pawn shop special. Notice the wire legs that double as the lid latch.
And notice the bendy wire that the high priced guys copied from way back in the '50's.
This one has the heavy gauge metal. Just also happens to be the one that was on the scale this morning.

 

Not all of us were around in 1932 to know these stoves existed or work well.

If you were playing less shuffleboard and were on here more you could've debated with the "avoid Coleman" recommendations i got when asking for pointers.



But I'll make sure to take plenty pictures of it and tag you in all of them.

 

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Seems like an odd thing to throw in with a treadmill.

 

Not when it's mounted to the display area so you can cook bacon while running.

 

Nobody gives a damn about my opinion, or I would have spoke up. Besides it's way more fun to salt things up a bit.

When trying to sell a treadmill, it's best to sweeten the pot a bit in order to get rid of them. People figure out pretty quick that the damn things take up an entire room and don't get much use after the first month or two.

 

They get plenty of use... As a clothes hanging apparatus.

 

truth

 

Is it lunch time yet?