G'day all, I thought it might be a bit of fun and possibly a learning exercise in trying to figure out what other uses Gas Pressure Appliances (GPA) had, apart from but including - lighting, cooking & heating. I'd like to include the obvious ones of lighting, heating & cooking because there are many sub categories in those 3 categories. I think with each reply we should add the category first then the use. Such as Lighting - Table lamps. I expect we will get the easier ones out of the way pretty quickly. Soon we might be struggling to find a new addition. I think many will be surprised by how many uses we eventually accumulate. If you know of an appliance but can't think of the category it may fall in just put: Unknown, then the appliance. It may well be fun trying to work out what the appliances use was intended for. I think there are going to be some really cool finds as we go along. I think until all the easy ones are gone each poster should just list one and can't add another until at least one more poster has added one. As the easier ones dry up we can abandon the rule that you must wait for another entry before adding one yourself. If anyone has any suggestions on how to frame this better than I have, feel free to offer an opinion. Cooking: Ovens - Bread - Focus. Cooking: Ovens - Bread - Primus Cooking: Pop Corn Maker - Peerless Company Cooking: Stoves - Marine - Pressure - Coleman 344, 345 348. Cooking: Stoves - Indoor - Range. Cooking: Stoves - Outdoors - Camp Stoves Cooking: Stoves - Outdoors - Hiking Stoves: Svea 123, Optimus 99, MSR types Heater: Kettle - Red ball Heaters: Pig Heater - Tilley IF 54 Heaters: Home Radiant - Coleman Model 18 Water Heaters: - Water - Urn - Coleman. Water Heaters: Kettle - Red ball Industrial: Vehicle Battery Warmer - Coleman 520-498 military stove with a flue adaptor. (MikeO) Industrial: Leak Detection - Tilley - LD1 Industrial: Plumbers Furnace Industrial: Lighting - Roadside - Roundabout Indicators: Tilley Book Industrial: Lighting - Signs: Roadside - Messaging: Tilley Book Irons: Clothes Irons Lighting: Hollow Wire - Ceiling Lights Lighting: Lantern - Storm Lighting: Lantern - Spot. Lighting: Lantern - Flood: Tilley FL6 Lighting: Projectors - Slide. Lighting: Table Lamps Lighting: Self Contained - Wall Lamps. Military: Infrared Lamp - Coleman 200A Infrared Lantern - Project Diogenese was a Coleman 200A with 4 concentric globes designed to emit infrared and heat only and was used as a landing or drop zone marker during the Vietnam war. ::Neil:: Recreational: Fishing - Flounder - Tilley X410-X410A-X458-X460 Torches: Blowlamps / blowtorches - Standard units Torches: Continuous soldering irons Torches: Brazing Units (these are much larger than blowlamps) Torches: Weed Killers Washing Machines/Boiler: Aladdin - Robincraft. Australian
Cheers Pete. I think the category will be Irons and there is likely to be more than one type of iron apart from your: Irons - Clothes, entry. I should have mentioned earlier that after we get a few entries, I'll ask @Christer to grab the entries from time to time and put them in my original post. Unfortunately, I can edit my opening post otherwise, I'd do it myself. So far we have, Lighting - Table Lamps Irons - Clothes
I'll see what I can do, but you will have to remind me and also add the entire list, because I get confused e.g. about the 'appliance'. I thought you by appliance meant the actual apparatus (as with the A for appliances in your strange acronym GPA), so that would make the iron the appliance, but you say that the iron should be the category. So just present the list as you compile it, and I will paste it in your original post.
“GPA” is culturally defined. What Americans think is “GPA” is not a term used very much here in Australia. It confuses “gasoline” and “vapour”, and is imprecise, and often dangerous. Tony
Hey Guys Don’t over think this! If it uses pressure, whether it pumped or natural expansion due to the influence of heat, then it applies. We’re not going for sheep stations here. Just sayin ..... Cheers Pete
I remember the road maintenance workers using a a ‘flame gun’ similar to the weed killers that @Anthony mentioned.
@podbros In the area of blowlamps / blowtorches I think the mention of soldering irons by podbros is a good one, as the continuous soldering irons are generally different to blowtorches / blowlamps in that the fount is the handle, and they do not sit on the fount and generally have the soldering iron attached (though removable). In this family I would include: Blowlamps / blowtorches - Standard units Continuous soldering irons Brazing Units (these are much larger than blowlamps) Furnaces (for melting metals and the like) I'd also add: Unknown - Kerosene operated fans
The Bering flame machine! https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/bering-flame-machine.34042/ And here: Bering Flame Machine: full fettle Cheers Tony
I suppose the term GPA would be strange to some collectors, depending on what country you lived in. I chose it because it was the easiest term I could think of that encompassed the entire pressure/fuel arena. I actually find it strange that someone like yourself, whom has been a collector for a long, long time seem to have not heard the term before. It is quite commonly used, certainly by Americans and Canadians. Yes, the A is appliance and of course the the word iron can be used for a category and a more defined term such as was used, Iron: Clothes Iron, can be used in conjunction with each other. If you wouldn't mind, when you get the time, would you please remove the list I have done at the bottom of this post and place it in the opening post. Thanks. I think @AussiePete hit the nail on the head when saying not to over think it. I'll create a list from time to time and then you can just grab it and put it in the opening post. That way, it is easy for members to see what has already been listed. I too am struggling to think of a category so I think I'll go with Lighting - Projectors - Slide Projector? if anyone has a better idea speak up. I don't think your furnace that I think is probably better known as a Plumbers furnace should be in Torches. I'm happy to be corrected. I'm not exactly sure where it should go, perhaps stoves? For your Kerosene fan I guess a category of cooling? Thanks Jeff, So signs - Road Side? I guess under Torches? I'm happy for others to suggest where to put it. I also put @Anthony Weed Killer under torches. @phaedrus42 I thought, Industrial, for you leak detectors? Do you mean hollow wire fridges or did you mean hollow wire and also fridges? Cooking: Ovens - Industrial - Bread Oven Cooling: Fans - Kerosene Cooling: Refrigerator - Kerosene Heaters: Water Heaters Industrial: Leak Detection Irons: Clothes Lighting: Hollow Wire Lighting: Projectors - Slide. Lighting: Table Lamps Signs: Roadside Stoves: Plumbers Furnace (I'm open to suggestions as where to put a plumbers furnace. Torches: Blowlamps / blowtorches - Standard units Torches: Continuous soldering irons Torches: Brazing Units (these are much larger than blowlamps) Torches: Weed Killers
Hello Matty, the RL-1/Road sign lamp, was mainly used for illuminating traffic signs to do with road repairs, such as stop and go. The GP-1/Guard post light was used for temporary go left signs at roundabouts etc..
Jeff, As I mentioned in my opening post this topic may be educational to some and I have certainly learnt something new because of your post. I think there are going to be some more interesting listings. I have a couple that some may not know about but I'm waiting for more of the better known applications to be listed first. I've adjusted your two sign entries. Are you happy with how I have done so? Cooking: Ovens - Industrial - Bread Oven Cooling: Fans - Kerosene Cooling: Refrigerator - Kerosene Heaters: Water Heaters Industrial: Leak Detection Irons: Clothes Lighting: Hollow Wire Lighting: Projectors - Slide. Lighting: Table Lamps Signs: Roadside - Roundabout Indicators Signs: Roadside - Messaging. Stoves: Plumbers Furnace (I'm open to suggestions as where to put a plumbers furnace. Torches: Blowlamps / blowtorches - Standard units Torches: Continuous soldering irons Torches: Brazing Units (these are much larger than blowlamps) Torches: Weed Killers
Hollow wire lighting and gas fridges. When I was young we used to stay with my nan in a caravan that had a gas fridge and calor gas lighting.
I agree that both fridges and fans are wick jobs. Having said that, someone will show a catalogue that shows them both using pressure I'll leave them on the list for now as an honorary mention. I'll add another more obvious one to the list. Lighting: Lantern - Storm. So the list is now as follows Cooking: Ovens - Industrial - Bread Oven Cooling: Fans - Kerosene Cooling: Refrigerator - Kerosene Heaters: Water Heaters Industrial: Leak Detection Irons: Clothes Lighting: Hollow Wire Lighting: Lantern - Storm. Lighting: Projectors - Slide. Lighting: Table Lamps Signs: Roadside - Roundabout Indicators Signs: Roadside - Messaging. Stoves: Plumbers Furnace (I'm open to suggestions as where to put a plumbers furnace. Torches: Blowlamps / blowtorches - Standard units Torches: Continuous soldering irons Torches: Brazing Units (these are much larger than blowlamps) Torches: Weed Killers
@Anthony I just thought about your entry and I came to the conclusion that your entry of water heater should be a category by itself. There are a number of water heaters of differing types for differing uses. So I left the Heaters category and created a new one of Water Heaters. Cooking: Ovens - Industrial - Bread Oven Cooling: Fans - Kerosene Cooling: Refrigerator - Kerosene Heaters: Industrial: Leak Detection Irons: Clothes Lighting: Hollow Wire Lighting: Lantern - Storm. Lighting: Projectors - Slide. Lighting: Table Lamps Signs: Roadside - Roundabout Indicators Signs: Roadside - Messaging. Stoves - Indoor Stoves - Outdoors Stoves - Industrial Plumbers Furnace (I'm open to suggestions as where to put a plumbers furnace. Torches: Blowlamps / blowtorches - Standard units Torches: Continuous soldering irons Torches: Brazing Units (these are much larger than blowlamps) Torches: Weed Killers Water Heaters:
Oh, I am very familiar with the term! After all I became a member of the Coleman Collector's forum many years before you started with this. I just don't think it's a good designation since it's confusing. It's the "gas part" that's open for too many interpretations. But that doesn't matter here, so that's another discussion. People understand what you mean anyway. Any pressure apparatus that use liquid fuel, and not only gasoline, right? I have added the last list in your original post now. Give me an alert when you feel it's time to update it again. E.g. Torches. Some were specially designed for the sole purpose of heating the hot bulb on hotbulb engines, semi diesels and those. And regarding the fridges, I'm of the same meaning as Paul M. Should they be in this list? Same thing with the fans. Surely they both used wick lamps and not pressure lamps? Often Aladdin burners and that kind.
