Coleman Two-Mantle Adjustable Gas Lantern

by Coleman

Product Features

• Fully adjustable light output
• Seven hours burn time on high, 14 hours on low
• Porcelain ventilators won't rust
• Powered by 1.3 pints of Coleman fuel
• Limited Lifetime

Product Description

Lantern, 2-Mantle, Adjustable

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 6.8 x 6.4 inches ; 3.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009PUQVE
• Item model number: 288B700
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,953 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)
  • #58 in Sports & Outdoors > Outdoor Recreation > Camping & Hiking > Lights & Lanterns > Lanterns

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Light Up Your Campsite with an American Classic, July 13, 2009

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Marshall Goldberg (Alameda, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coleman Two-Mantle Adjustable Gas Lantern (Sports)

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.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old Reliable, February 7, 2010

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Joe Handyman (Baltimore MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coleman Two-Mantle Adjustable Gas Lantern (Sports)

I've used these lanterns for 40 years. I have four - use them for camping, backyard patio lighting, backup lighting during power outages. You can find a use for it everywhere.

Pros: Weatherproof, brightest non-electric light you can find anywhere, will run nightly for a whole season on one can of coleman fuel.

Cons: The glass globe and, especially, the silk mantle are quite fragile. Not quiet - it hisses during operation.

Tips: Don't lay the lantern on its side or upside-down - gravity will cause the mantles to fracture. I have never yet found a way to tie up a new mantle without a helper to put his finger on the knot. Parts of the lantern get very hot during operation and will burn your hand - use with care around small children. Use the Coleman filtered funnel for refueling. Don't smoke while you're refuelling the lantern unless you want a Darwin Award. Don't use anything other than Coleman Fuel unless you've got the dual-fuel version that can burn regular unleaded gas. These lanterns are too big for backpacking - car camping and backyard use are best.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Illuminating, October 20, 2008

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J. Abbott "Zoomer" (Portland, OR - United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coleman Two-Mantle Adjustable Gas Lantern (Sports)

We bought this lantern for my son and daughter-in-law last winter. These newer lanterns have plastic parts in the pump that some reviews I read considered inferior to the older metal versions. The pricing at Amazon, at the time, offered such a bargain that I decided to buy a new lantern rather than search for a good used one with metal pump. I picked up a case, extra mantles, funnel and Coleman fuel at my local REI store. We fueled up the lantern and it fired right up. After the new mantles settled down, the lantern operated as my older versions do. The intended purpose of this gift lantern is to provide emergency lighting so I'm not sure how good a test the newer version pump will get. Initially, it was fine.