Stove Of The Week: Coleman Xpedition
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Well, here's something I'd similar to try: A "Stove of the Week" post. I doubtfulness I'll live able to postal service a stove every calendar week (but I'll try), but I collect stoves, I've got quite a number of interesting stoves, together with I'd dear to part them amongst you. I remove keep them out quite often inward the winter, but when the temperatures climb, less often so.
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The stove is shown hither on the ruins of Echo Mountain House a hotel built inward the slow 1800's atop Echo Mountain (3207'/977m).
Now the stove has something of a story. First it came to me past times agency of a friend inward England. Ian sent it to me exactly because he knew of my affection for together with involvement inward this type of stove. He asked for cipher inward return. I give thank you lot you really much, Ian, together with I apologize that it's taken me this long to teach it fettled (repaired) together with posted.
In terms of fettling, the "X" stoves that Coleman produced do remove keep an achilles heel: their connector. I ain one-half a dozen of the 3 types of "X" stoves (the Xtreme, Xpert, together with Xpedition). I've seen multiple problems amongst their connecter (the indicate at which the Powermax canister attaches to the stove).
Basically, the canister has a hex shaped protrusion on it. The hex is placed into the connecter pictured higher upwards together with rotated 1/6th plough to the right. As the hex rotates, it causes the inner cam inward the photograph higher upwards to rotate amongst it patch the outer "finger plate" (Coleman's term for it) stays stationary. The protrusions on the inner cam forcefulness the "fingers" on the finger plate to expand together with a modest ridge on each finger is forced into a grove on the within rim of the canister's valve assembly. The fingers when forced past times the cam into the grove concord the canister inward house such that the lindal valve is depressed, opening the valve together with allowing the gas to flow. If you lot hold back closely at this photo, you lot tin run into the grove on the within rim of the canister's valve assembly.
In theory. In practice, however, the inner cam exactly wasn't rotating. Instead, the canister's hex was rotating within the cam, stripping the plastic of the cam. If you lot hold back closely at the photograph of the cam, 2 photos back, you lot tin run into some apparel where I've stripped the cam.
"Well," idea I inward all my sum brilliance, "the fingers must live likewise tight, together with they're non allowing the cam to rotate properly. I'll loosen them upwards a bit." Crack. One of the fingers broke off. Oh, great.
Well, no problem, I'll exactly gild ane from Coleman. Nope. Coleman no longer carries either the cam or the fingerplate. Stumped, I position the stove aside for a while.
Some fourth dimension later, I was tipped off that Campmor.com carries "trail maintenance kits" for the Coleman "X" stoves. The best bargain is the Xpedition trail maintenance kit: it has to a greater extent than parts (and for a lower price) than the other kits. All of the kits are interchangeable fifty-fifty though some of the kits are labeled for ane of the 3 "X" stoves or another. A chip expensive to purchase an entire kit for exactly the finger plate, but having no other alternative, I bought a couple.
Here inward this photo, you lot tin run into the divergence betwixt a nice, novel cam together with a worn cam.
But no dice. The derned matter soundless won't turn. I tried oil. I tried swapping parts out for novel parts. I tried powdered graphite. Nothing I tried worked. The cam exactly wouldn't turn. I acknowledge that at this indicate I exactly well-nigh binned the danged thing.
Now, fast forrad some months. New Year's twenty-four hr menstruum 2011 is fast approaching. Now, we've something of a local tradition hereabouts, it's called the Rose Parade, which is a nationally televised event. As role of that parade, the USA Air Force commonly does a relatively depression height wing past times over the parade route. Lately, it's been the B-2 Stealth Bomber. Fascinating! There's a mount that has a commanding thought of the parade route. The final several years, quite a crowd has gathered upon the mount superlative hence equally to remove keep quite the thought of the B-2 equally it flies by. It's choke an effect inward its ain right, amongst people bringing stoves, cooking, together with having quite the festive occasion. Well, if ane wants to fix for a crowd AND ane has to comport the stove upwards a mountainside, what improve stove than a 2 burner Coleman Xpedition stove? It's relatively light, yet it has non ane but 2 powerful burners. I thought, what could it wound to describe the Xpedition off the shelf together with remove keep ane to a greater extent than choke at fettling?
Now, remove keep ane to a greater extent than hold back at that final photo. Note that the protrusions on the cams remove keep sharp, difficult right angled edges on them. What if I beveled them a bit? I got out a file. I don't know how good this volition demonstrate inward a photo, but here's a cam after I've beveled the leading edges of the protrusions.
Now, remove keep I exactly wasted my fourth dimension yet again?
NO BY GOLLY I HAVE NOT!!!
Phew! That's the best looking flaming I've seen inward a long time. The worst role of it of course of report is after months of fourth dimension spent together with untold frustration, it alone took me a few minutes to bevel the edges together with remove keep the stove upwards together with running. It's a fairly unproblematic fettle -- ane time it occurs to you lot to endeavour it. Don't choke a stovie if you're non prepared to remove keep a skillful express joy at yourself ane time inward a while.
Well, hence fettle done, off nosotros choke early the side past times side morning. We've got to choke far to the mount superlative together with live inward seat earlier 0800 when the wing past times occurs. I'm carrying well-nigh xxx pounds of gear (about 13.5 kg); this volition live no fast trek. My friend calls. He's running late. Ack! Off nosotros choke inward a chip of a race against time!
It's a fairly mutual frigidity morn past times California standards; there's frost on the ground, indicating that the over black depression has been below 32 F (0 C).
The San Gabriel Valley of California, pre-dawn.
Here's some other thought of the greater Los Angeles expanse from farther upwards the trail a chip subsequently that morning. If you lot hold back closely at the uppermost of the 2 blimps, you lot tin run into the rose colored calorie-free of dawn. Downtown Los Angeles tin live seen at the lower right.
Finally, we're inward position, together with it's nearly 0800. We've made it inward time. And at that topographic point it is! The stealth bomber!
Unfortunately, I couldn't teach him inward frame when I maximized the zoom score (he was moving likewise fast), hence that's non the best photograph inward the world, but I assure you lot it was quite exciting inward person.
Here's my position upwards on the mount superlative after the crowds remove keep departed. I made hot H2O for instant oatmeal together with instant cocoa for folks. The Xpedition did an admirable chore of it.
The pots are 0.9 L together with 1.5 L Primus LiTech kettles. Very convenient to pour from. By having 2 burners together with 2 kettles, I could serve amongst ane patch heating to a greater extent than amongst the other, allowing me to render hot H2O to a fair number of people.
The canteen seen at left is an orginal Swiss armed services ane produced past times Sigg. Sigg late issued a retro version made of steel amongst a screw top. I saw ane choke late for well-nigh $75.00 on eBay! I bought the master copy version for $7.13 total, together with mine is lighter aluminum. I intend I'll stick amongst my version although a cork stopper is non equally secure equally a screw top, together with I worry I may teach H2O spilled on my pack some day. I comport it strictly for the cool factor.
The windscreen you lot seen inward the photograph is the concatenation of ane together with a one-half Olicamp windscreens. One together with a one-half windscreens makes an almost perfect tally for the Xpedition.
Here's the thought from the top. The signs you lot run into are historical interpretive signs explaining the diverse features of the site. The blueish you lot run into on the far horizon is the mighty Pacific Ocean.
And forthwith that the crowds remove keep gone, it's my plough to taste a cuppa.
And if you lot hold back behind me, you lot tin run into why hence many people remove keep chosen to alive inward California: It's January, but it's a beautiful day. It's cold, at that topographic point was frost soundless inward the shady spots, but out inward the Sun a calorie-free downwardly jacket similar the ane you lot run into me wearing was all I needed. Not likewise bad for January.
Well, I give thank you lot you for joining me on my New Year's Day trip upwards Echo Mountain. I promise you've enjoyed the trip -- together with the stove.
HJ
Related posts:
- Stove of the Week: Coleman Xpedition
- Stove of the Week: Coleman Xtreme
- Update on Powermax Fuel 11/7/2011
The stove is shown hither on the ruins of Echo Mountain House a hotel built inward the slow 1800's atop Echo Mountain (3207'/977m).
Now the stove has something of a story. First it came to me past times agency of a friend inward England. Ian sent it to me exactly because he knew of my affection for together with involvement inward this type of stove. He asked for cipher inward return. I give thank you lot you really much, Ian, together with I apologize that it's taken me this long to teach it fettled (repaired) together with posted.
In terms of fettling, the "X" stoves that Coleman produced do remove keep an achilles heel: their connector. I ain one-half a dozen of the 3 types of "X" stoves (the Xtreme, Xpert, together with Xpedition). I've seen multiple problems amongst their connecter (the indicate at which the Powermax canister attaches to the stove).
Basically, the canister has a hex shaped protrusion on it. The hex is placed into the connecter pictured higher upwards together with rotated 1/6th plough to the right. As the hex rotates, it causes the inner cam inward the photograph higher upwards to rotate amongst it patch the outer "finger plate" (Coleman's term for it) stays stationary. The protrusions on the inner cam forcefulness the "fingers" on the finger plate to expand together with a modest ridge on each finger is forced into a grove on the within rim of the canister's valve assembly. The fingers when forced past times the cam into the grove concord the canister inward house such that the lindal valve is depressed, opening the valve together with allowing the gas to flow. If you lot hold back closely at this photo, you lot tin run into the grove on the within rim of the canister's valve assembly.
In theory. In practice, however, the inner cam exactly wasn't rotating. Instead, the canister's hex was rotating within the cam, stripping the plastic of the cam. If you lot hold back closely at the photograph of the cam, 2 photos back, you lot tin run into some apparel where I've stripped the cam.
"Well," idea I inward all my sum brilliance, "the fingers must live likewise tight, together with they're non allowing the cam to rotate properly. I'll loosen them upwards a bit." Crack. One of the fingers broke off. Oh, great.
Well, no problem, I'll exactly gild ane from Coleman. Nope. Coleman no longer carries either the cam or the fingerplate. Stumped, I position the stove aside for a while.
Some fourth dimension later, I was tipped off that Campmor.com carries "trail maintenance kits" for the Coleman "X" stoves. The best bargain is the Xpedition trail maintenance kit: it has to a greater extent than parts (and for a lower price) than the other kits. All of the kits are interchangeable fifty-fifty though some of the kits are labeled for ane of the 3 "X" stoves or another. A chip expensive to purchase an entire kit for exactly the finger plate, but having no other alternative, I bought a couple.
Here inward this photo, you lot tin run into the divergence betwixt a nice, novel cam together with a worn cam.
But no dice. The derned matter soundless won't turn. I tried oil. I tried swapping parts out for novel parts. I tried powdered graphite. Nothing I tried worked. The cam exactly wouldn't turn. I acknowledge that at this indicate I exactly well-nigh binned the danged thing.
Now, fast forrad some months. New Year's twenty-four hr menstruum 2011 is fast approaching. Now, we've something of a local tradition hereabouts, it's called the Rose Parade, which is a nationally televised event. As role of that parade, the USA Air Force commonly does a relatively depression height wing past times over the parade route. Lately, it's been the B-2 Stealth Bomber. Fascinating! There's a mount that has a commanding thought of the parade route. The final several years, quite a crowd has gathered upon the mount superlative hence equally to remove keep quite the thought of the B-2 equally it flies by. It's choke an effect inward its ain right, amongst people bringing stoves, cooking, together with having quite the festive occasion. Well, if ane wants to fix for a crowd AND ane has to comport the stove upwards a mountainside, what improve stove than a 2 burner Coleman Xpedition stove? It's relatively light, yet it has non ane but 2 powerful burners. I thought, what could it wound to describe the Xpedition off the shelf together with remove keep ane to a greater extent than choke at fettling?
Now, remove keep ane to a greater extent than hold back at that final photo. Note that the protrusions on the cams remove keep sharp, difficult right angled edges on them. What if I beveled them a bit? I got out a file. I don't know how good this volition demonstrate inward a photo, but here's a cam after I've beveled the leading edges of the protrusions.
Now, remove keep I exactly wasted my fourth dimension yet again?
NO BY GOLLY I HAVE NOT!!! Phew! That's the best looking flaming I've seen inward a long time. The worst role of it of course of report is after months of fourth dimension spent together with untold frustration, it alone took me a few minutes to bevel the edges together with remove keep the stove upwards together with running. It's a fairly unproblematic fettle -- ane time it occurs to you lot to endeavour it. Don't choke a stovie if you're non prepared to remove keep a skillful express joy at yourself ane time inward a while.
Well, hence fettle done, off nosotros choke early the side past times side morning. We've got to choke far to the mount superlative together with live inward seat earlier 0800 when the wing past times occurs. I'm carrying well-nigh xxx pounds of gear (about 13.5 kg); this volition live no fast trek. My friend calls. He's running late. Ack! Off nosotros choke inward a chip of a race against time!
It's a fairly mutual frigidity morn past times California standards; there's frost on the ground, indicating that the over black depression has been below 32 F (0 C).
The San Gabriel Valley of California, pre-dawn.
Here's some other thought of the greater Los Angeles expanse from farther upwards the trail a chip subsequently that morning. If you lot hold back closely at the uppermost of the 2 blimps, you lot tin run into the rose colored calorie-free of dawn. Downtown Los Angeles tin live seen at the lower right.
Finally, we're inward position, together with it's nearly 0800. We've made it inward time. And at that topographic point it is! The stealth bomber!
Unfortunately, I couldn't teach him inward frame when I maximized the zoom score (he was moving likewise fast), hence that's non the best photograph inward the world, but I assure you lot it was quite exciting inward person.
Here's my position upwards on the mount superlative after the crowds remove keep departed. I made hot H2O for instant oatmeal together with instant cocoa for folks. The Xpedition did an admirable chore of it.
The pots are 0.9 L together with 1.5 L Primus LiTech kettles. Very convenient to pour from. By having 2 burners together with 2 kettles, I could serve amongst ane patch heating to a greater extent than amongst the other, allowing me to render hot H2O to a fair number of people.
The canteen seen at left is an orginal Swiss armed services ane produced past times Sigg. Sigg late issued a retro version made of steel amongst a screw top. I saw ane choke late for well-nigh $75.00 on eBay! I bought the master copy version for $7.13 total, together with mine is lighter aluminum. I intend I'll stick amongst my version although a cork stopper is non equally secure equally a screw top, together with I worry I may teach H2O spilled on my pack some day. I comport it strictly for the cool factor.
The windscreen you lot seen inward the photograph is the concatenation of ane together with a one-half Olicamp windscreens. One together with a one-half windscreens makes an almost perfect tally for the Xpedition.
Here's the thought from the top. The signs you lot run into are historical interpretive signs explaining the diverse features of the site. The blueish you lot run into on the far horizon is the mighty Pacific Ocean.
And forthwith that the crowds remove keep gone, it's my plough to taste a cuppa.
And if you lot hold back behind me, you lot tin run into why hence many people remove keep chosen to alive inward California: It's January, but it's a beautiful day. It's cold, at that topographic point was frost soundless inward the shady spots, but out inward the Sun a calorie-free downwardly jacket similar the ane you lot run into me wearing was all I needed. Not likewise bad for January.
Well, I give thank you lot you for joining me on my New Year's Day trip upwards Echo Mountain. I promise you've enjoyed the trip -- together with the stove.
HJ
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