Coleman Two-Mantle Adjustable Gas Lantern Review

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(More customer reviews)Couple this lantern with the Coleman 2 Burner Dual Fuel Premium Compact Liquid Fuel Stove, and you'll have decades of reliable, economical, environmentally friendly cooking and light. You can cook and light up your campsite for a week with a can of Coleman fuel. With other solutions (even Coleman's), you buy about five cans of compressed propane for the same effect, which costs more and creates a lot more litter.
This lantern puts flashlights to shame -- it truly illuminates a campsite with hours and hours of even, white, bright light. The output of even a 4 D-cell flashlight is very dim by comparison. Seem silly? Not if it gets dark before you're finished cooking dinner!
As with the Coleman stove, it uses liquid gas, not pressurized propane. This means you have to pour liquid gas into its tank -- which is very easy, especially if you use the Coleman Fuel Filler. You also have to pump the stove and lamp, but this is super-easy to do. Both units prime themselves, which means you light them, and their flame heats up the tube which feeds them gas. As soon as the tube heats up, it fully draws the gas and the stove/lantern run for hours without more pumping. It's a little old-fashioned, but it is extremely reliable, and there's something very rustic and romantic about using the same camping gear that people used in the 1940's and 1950's.
I bought the plastic carrying case for this lantern and I love it. There is a trick -- you have to press in the sides of the case at the bottom in order to "latch" the lid onto the bottom. Otherwise, as another reviewer mentioned, the bottom will come off. As long as you make sure it's latched, it works very well to protect the lamp during transport and storage.
A word of warning: This lantern produces a flame, it is encased in glass, and it gets very hot. It is very dangerous to use inside of a tent, and of course you must be careful not to knock it over in the woods. It has a large handle, and it can be hung, but make sure it isn't going to burn whatever it's hanging from. This isn't a big deal - just use common sense, and you'll have years of camping fun.

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