coleman #4 radiant heater tear down

Got it apart. Now just need to start the cleaning. It come apart easy for how rusty it was. A little p.b.blaster helped.

still need to take the tank appart.

 

Looks like a good start.
How do you plan on attacking the rust?
Electrolysis would be one solution.
Just curious.

Dan

 

i will glass bead the parts that i can then prime. work it up like a car finish. some parts need polished,like the aluminum. just soda blasted the alu. back panel. will post pictures tonight after work. the very top panel,i think,is porcelain coated might need to send it to i.p.e. also need to send the nickel parts to be refinished.anyone know a good chrome shop?

 

after soda blast





steal wool and polish. lot of pits and dents but not bad for a 80 year old part.

 

Jeff at I.P.E. does indeed do excellent work, and not just on lantern ventilators. The picture below is a 12" diameter top from a Perfect #61 "portable" stove/heater done by I.P.E



As far as a chrome shop, at the Coleman convention at Lake George this year, this outfit here had a table with some beautifully re-plated Coleman lanterns. I don't know much else about them or their cost, but as they made the trip, I would assume they would be willing to discuss your kind of work.

I would be interested in knowing more about your sandblasting techniques and equipment. Is it your own or do you take it to a shop?

Very nice progress so far.

Dan

 

Thanks Dan for the info. I have a tabletop sand blaster from harbor freight.For the alum. parts i use soda.Its like the soda in fire extinguishers.For steel parts use glass bead or very fine silica sand.Here is a photo of part in sandblaster.



P.S.thanks for the link.

 

Might this be the Harbor Freight unit you have? It just happens to be on sale. What would you recommend for a compressor?
Did you get the blast media from HF too?

Thanks,
Dan

 

Yep that's it. Yes the soda comes from there.The sand form lowe's. It's play sand put it through a fine screen to remove any large chunk's.they can clog up the blaster. My compresser is homemade runs around 125 psi.

 

here is the tank.waiting on pump leather and cap seal.

 

soda blasted the burner and painted with ceramic exhaust paint.

 

It's looking good!

 

Hi 816oldguy

Looks very nice. I think it is going to be even better than the "modelpicture" first in your thread and it also looks like you only have small parts left to fix.

Claus C

 

got the pump leather and cap seal.Pumped it up to 20 PSI and it's been holding that for 2 days now.Both generators pass air so i think it will work good. Now just need to wait for snow to melt so i can take it outside and see if it will lite.