Woodsman's Gear of the 20th Century Part 5

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance out there in the Pathfinder school back you know another in our series gear of the 20th century woodsmen and this piece of gear is a very relevant piece of kit that I want to talk to you today about and it's got great historical value as well and this is the Coleman 530 pocket stove statement back in the woods [Music]

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in World War two the government approached WC Coleman and asked him to make a stove that can be used by soldiers and there were some stipulations put on how that stove was to be made it had to be small enough that it wasn't bigger than a thermos like a 2 quart thermos something preferably that could be stashed away or packed away fairly easily it had to be able to operate in temperatures from minus 60 degrees to 125 degrees Fahrenheit and it also had to be able to use multiple fuels and it took Coleman 60 days to come up with the prototype for the Coleman stove that was used during World War 2 the pocket stove which was the 20 series of this stove this is the civilian version of the 30 series the only difference between the 20 and 30 series really were other than manufacturing dates the military version not an OD green tank and it had some feet on it so that it would be more stable standing up and that stove was taken to Africa first during World War 2 and it was used throughout World War 2 by troops in trenches and foxholes and throughout their theater of operations and it was known to many many individuals of high rank during that time to be one of the most reliable pieces of kit the soldier had next to the Jeep but I think that speaks very well to the quality and the reliability of the stove again it could burn unleaded fuel so they could use the fuel from their jeeps in the stove and after the war was over Coleman knew that they had a success so they decided to make the 30 series stove and a civilian version which was a plated copper tank or brass tank I believe this got silver plating on it and it was used at that point and advertised for the outdoorsman for the fishermen for the hiker for the camper for the hunter and there are advertisements that I'll put on this video of this stove being put into the pocket of a hunting jacket this stove is four and a half inches in diameter when it's closed and it is eight and a half inches tall but it weighs about three pounds so

does have some weight to it by today's standards it's outrageously heavy but for nostalgia sake it's an awesome stove and some of the cool features of the stove were that the grate folded into itself on pivot points the funnel sat inside the stove housing here and it sat inside of a container like this with the wrench which was for all of the fixtures on the outside of the stove and also doubled as a handle for both pots so that you could use these pots for cooking in as well just like this so you had a larger pot in a smaller pot now obviously these things would have smelled a lot like kerosene or gasoline or whatever you were burning in them at the time but Coleman suggested that you could just turn this pot upside down and burn those fuels out boil some water in it dump it out you'd be ready to cook in at that point but everything went into this single or the double container that became a single container and locked together just like this so that you had a one piece cook set that could be carried anywhere that you wanted to pack it whether it was your backpack if you were a soldier or in the coat pocket or backpack of a hunter or fisherman it's a very innovative system it is very similar to many of the systems that came to market like the spheal 123 like the Primus stoves and things like that that we'll talk about in future videos but because of its historic value as far as being something that was used by soldiers during the war and then transfer it to the civilian market I thought we should talk about this stove first so these stoves are slightly fussy and you really kind of need to preheat them to get them to not blow a giant flame on you as soon as you light them up

like any Coleman stove they have a tank that you fill up about two-thirds of the way and it was said that this would burn for four solid hours on the lowest setting on that one pint of fuel and then it would boil two cups of water in less than five minutes and that's been tested several times on the Internet and does hold true the stove puts out 5300 B to use when it's burning at full capacity which made it very useful for soldiers as well as a personal heating device as long as there was plenty of ventilation so you would pump this stove and this one's pumped up already because I just had it fired up not very long though

and you would turn the handle clockwise to lock it off you would crack the fuel valve just enough to allow fuel to escape and you can hear it when you do that now if you don't want this thing to go up in a big ball of fire I would suggest you do just like you do with those older stoves and maybe prime the part in the pan just a little bit with some alcohol or something like that like that first and then turn the stove on at that point you can open it about a quarter of a turn it's gonna spit this heavy yellow flame until that bowl gets completely warmed up and it starts drawing fuel you can then open the valve a little at a time it does tend to blow itself out a little bit we'll put a little more priming talk Hall in there make sure we're pumped up fire again

again big ball of flames to start out with but it will turn into a nice blue flame here in a minute once everything gets heated up and starts the draw and then you can open the fuel valve all the way if you choose to do that if you do that too quick it'll blow it out like you did on me you'll have to reprime everything just kind of adjust until you get it where you need it till it starts burning solid balloon

now she's rocking roll and then you're ready to cook your meal alright guys I appreciate a join me today for this video on the Coleman 530 pocket stove I'm not a Coleman expert by any means there's lots and lots of videos about this stove and other stoves on the internet if you're interested in buying one or repairing one I suggest you go look at those videos there's also lots of sites online where you can buy parts for these old stones as well I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I appreciate everything you do for school for a family important business all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends be sure to hit the subscribe button be sure to hit your notification bell and I'll be backed into the video as soon as I can thanks guys