This looks like new, never thought that the result could be so perfect after seeing this bashed up before picture…
Nice work! I have used kerosene pressure lanterns and stoves but never dared gasoline.
Great job with the ol Major, DBSAR! Your lantern shelves look as busy as mine. :bigsmile: Here’s a few of my 237 restorations helping to heat the house during winter.
Wow nice video of the 237s! 
that must be radiating a ton of heat there. Great to see another avid “lantern” collector here too. (I’m surprised your not a member of the CCF forums.)
Thanks for the insightful video. You must have your favorite tint in all these lights as they appeared to be all the same. Love your restoration skills.
Thanks! I probably have over 200 lanterns. You know how it is… anything to do with creating light. lol It looks like you’ve indulged quite heavily as well. :bigsmile: Most of my rare lantern restorations are sold to Japanese collectors who pay top dollar for prime examples.
Ive been a CPF member for several years. After many of my detailed how-to pictorials kept disappearing to make space on Mikes old system (while other ridiculous posts remained - created by a certain dictatorial overzealous admin) I stopped contributing. Its too bad, because many of the most knowledgeable and respected members also left for similar reasons.
Not to fear because everyone seems to have reunited at “Antique & Vintage Coleman Lantern & Stove Collectors” on facebook.
Redirecting... I hope you’ll join us.
Im glad you enjoyed it. The cam sensor easily gets pegged from all the lumens and doesnt do a very good job at reproducing the color temp and CRI. I had to under-pressure the lanterns for the vid shot. The mantles are thorium coated and burn at around 5k and probably 98-100 CRI on my home-brew fuel mixtures. If you enjoy large amounts of omnidirectional outdoor lighting, tinkering and a sense of averting an explosion or setting yourself on fire, then buy an old lantern and enjoy. They are a ton of fun!
200 lanterns! nice. i have roughly only 15 - 16 in my Gas lantern collection so far.
Are you on the CCF ( Coleman Collectors Forum?
Oops! I meant to type CCF. That was an unforgivable mistake!
Beautiful restorations both DBSAR and FlashPilot. 
I have an old (well, maybe 30 years old) Tilley paraffin lantern that I keep meaning to look at. It’s been in it’s original box since I bought it, and hasn’t been used for probably 29 years lol. I seem to remember I always had a problem with the mantles, though they are probably easy to pick up. It was just too cumbersome to carry around when I went camping.
That is a great restore on the Lantern!
I would love to find an old Tilley to add to my collection, as the Tilley lanterns are the European version of our Coleman Lanterns, and Tilley’s are really hard to find here.
Here are the before and after restoration pics of that 1960’s BernzOmatic Lantern too
Before…
After…
Great Job! Both you guys. Those lanterns sure bring back some old memories of good times gone by...
Thanks OL.
someday i need to do a group photo of all my lanterns and flashlights together, but i may need a parking lot to do the photo. 
Grab one off ebay. Here’s my Tilley kerosene Model X246 “The Guardsman”, Storm Lantern after resto. I removed the threads from the bottom of a Peerless 111 thorium mantle and rolled it under so that I dont have to use Tilley mantles. Not quite what a 236-237 throws out but still a good 300cp.
Beautiful lantern!
Very nice restorations you have done there!
What is the brightest Coleman lantern ever made? You guys have me wanting to buy some more.
I’m not sure what the brightest model is, but some of the larger double-mantle units exceed a 100-watt incandescent in output.
The Coleman 236 & 237 burning thorium treated mantles are said to be equivalent to a 350 watt incandescent. The 236 burns Coleman fuel. The 237 burns anything that can be burned in these types of lanterns.
Then there are frankenlanterns. This 237 based mish-mash is capable of roughly 800 watts equivalent.
