This is my Coleman 236 lantern, made in Canada, and dated July 1952. I like the 500cp Coleman lanterns, especially the gasoline 236 and the kerosene 237. This was a bit of a side project while I was restoring two rare lamps. This is not an original globe. The lantern came without one. 7 52 The lantern came with a ceramic burner cap and screen. "Coleman" "U.S.A." The vent was in reasonably good condition, although the rim was bent in one place. I fitted a new generator (with the old jamb nut). Note that it came with a late Coleman single piece filler cap. Some vandal had attacked the pump tube and cap with pliers or similar and I had to do some panel beating (see below). The ball nut had also been chewed. Testing and up and running Panel beating the pump tube First, rounding the pump tube with a tight fitting form and small pein hammer. Second, re-rounding the pump cap as above . You might note the long plastic cable tie in the third last photograph. This was used to unblock the two air tubes and the cast burner assembly that were completely blocked with wasp nest mud and dead spiders. A good bright working lamp! Cheers Tony
Very nice @Tony Press ! I found a ‘53 236 which has had a repair job to the underside of the fount, so I’m not going to run it on Coleman fuel. I also have a ‘52 237 so considered swapping the founts, to enable me to run them both as intended (even though I like to keep them as original as possible). I can normally get the valve assembly out on a 242 pretty easily, but the 237 assy is firmly fixed! There’s a white sealant residue visible which I can also see on your assembly above where it screws in to the fount. Did you attempt to remove the valve assembly on this one? I’m wondering if they used something different to seal these larger lanterns, making them a little trickier to pull apart
@Buckaroo What month is the 1953 lantern? I didn’t remove the fuel/valve assembly. If I were to do it, I would apply some heat to the block a few times then some Penetrene or similar to the thread area. Then I would put the brass assembly between leather in the jaws of a vise, and unscrew it by rotating the tank. Cheers Tony
