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- From: wood@rtsg.mot.com (Dan Wood)
- Subject: Re: Camp stoves
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:17:32 GMT
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- A word of caution regarding the big propane tank hookup
- to Coleman stoves and lanterns. This story is second-hand,
- so please forgive the lack of details. The parties involved
- are fairly bright people, so don't assume that it can't
- happen to you...
-
- Friends of mine were cooking breakfast inside a screened
- tent and dripped bacon grease inside the Coleman stove,
- starting a small fire. Understandably nervous about the
- 20 lbs of propane in close vicinity, he shutoff the valve on
- the tank, she put the stove on the ground. Apparently there
- was some amount of propane remaining in the connecting line,
- which ran downhill to the stove, creating a large flareup
- that melted an entire side of the screened tent. As I recall,
- the stove burner was extinguished previously in attempts to
- kill the grease fire. I guess the propane accumulated in
- the bottom of the stove until it reached the grease flame,
- then blew burning grease out of the stove.
-
- Fortunately no one was injured. Be aware that this could
- happen in many other scenarios, with worse consequences.
-
- I've seen scary things happen with Coleman fuel also,
- so I'm not arguing that it's safer, but the cause of the
- problem was more obvious in those cases.
-
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