I agree with what Mike had to say about cold weather and his good old 505. Technique is everything when trying to operate a Coleman stove at low temperature. Shaking the pressure canister before lighting helps a lot. Another idea is to turn the "up to light, down to burn" knob to the "burn" position for a second or so, to get a shot of liquid gas into the system before going back to the "light" (vapour only) position to light. On the 2 burner models, priming fuel can be obtained by taking the fuel tank off the stove, and giving the burner a bit of a squirt from the generator. Not much, just a few drops will do it. This is much more controllable than trying to slop a bit of gas out of the spare fuel tin. Priming paste is even more controllable, but it seems like I never have it when I need it. Rob. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Dec 13 2004 - 15:36:51 PST
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