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Found my old camp stove after 8 years in the garage and it fired right up
I pulled out my old Coleman Peak1 from 2016 that had been sitting in a damp garage through two moves. Cleaned the generator tube with a paperclip and sprayed some carb cleaner through the jets and it lit on the first try. I honestly expected the seals to be shot or something rusted solid. Has anyone else had luck reviving old white gas stoves that sat for years without any maintenance?
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gracej9917d agoMost Upvoted
Hard disagree. You got lucky with that Peak1. I've had two of those come into my shop where the fuel cap gasket basically turned into glue after sitting that long. One of them had the pickup tube completely clogged with that funky white varnish that old Coleman fuel leaves behind.
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Oh man, that's such a relief when something like that fires right up... I've had the same thing happen with a couple of my old stoves and it always feels like a small miracle. There's just something about white gas gear that seems to hold up better than people give it credit for, even after years of neglect. I've had to replace a few o-rings on some, but for the most part they just need a little cleaning and they're good to go. It's like they were made to be forgotten for a decade then brought back to life with some elbow grease. Makes you appreciate the simpler stuff that doesn't have electronics or fancy parts to fail on you.
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ross.kim17d ago
Oh come on, is it really that deep? It's a camp stove, not a vintage car engine. A little cleaning and it fires up, that's literally how they work. People act like a clogged jet is some kind of tragedy when it takes five minutes to fix.
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