It looks really nice, and was easy to put up, then 1 of the legs was broken. It is made of porous molded alu, and could have been made more solidly, and at approx same weight of a milled plate. Since this one's not sold localy, I just had to make a substitute.

It runs nice and is easy to simmer with LPG cannister fuel.

The upside down position of the cannister maintains hig output in cold wether compaired with normal cannister positioning.

Then I shold try it on white-gas. The book was followed step by step, and I got a huge yellow flame, and nothing else. OK maybe my white-gas was bad, so I changed to unleaded, alkylate gasoline, and the result was the same.

I did read the manual again, tried to do some thinking, and started to pump, not only 40 strokes, but 100, and yes! after some flaring, and more pumping the stove performs as on cannister-fuel.

The temp is approx 0 deg C (32F)during this testing.

3 days of testing in the yard is not enough to make a komplete evaluation, but it is far enough to experince that I dislike this as a gasoline stove, and feel unsafe with it.

During theese operations I discovered, this stove is not easy to maintain, you need tools, dexterity, and som surface suitable to prevent loosing small parts.

The combination of steel, aluminum and brass may cause some oxidation, witch allready was visible on this brand new stove. (This may turn out to be a minor problem.)

The conclusions are:

1:You may probably get more for your money if you buy an other model or brand.

2:Coleman should take a look at their quality management, the cost of disapointed customers are probably higer than of a good engineer. (They will probably not, but shoud thank me (an "old" Norwegian engineer) for beeing honest.)

I'll keep on testing on cannister fuel, and it seems to be possible to give it a better rating as a cannister fuel stove.

I had no receipt, They have no office in Scandinavia, the model is not sold here.

All earlier Coleman stoves I have used has been well working and reliable.

This one works as described in the manual, white-gas works well. Tested a few times outdoors at home this evening at - 10 deg C (14 deg F)

Conclusion : This model is not a stove for others than particularly interested people, It's a top cannister stove to a high cost.

Why only 2 stars? because it is made for dual fuel. If the stove was sold as a cannister fuel stove, I l probably would give it a full score.

Coleman: please tolerate what i wrote over, but it is my thrue first experience.

Coleman has still my confidence, and will probably by more Coleman products.

dsk

For white gas, an Apex ii is far better, but now only available used. A new hose, and clamps to approx $10 and you have a good as new stove. Or you mai choose an old Optimus Nova, but it has to be as old as it has Made in Sweden stamped on the regulator handle.

In addition you may buy a canister fueled stove and still have money left.

I have wasted some money on stoves during the years, but never so much on one single stove.

Not only Coleman suffer from hard times, and has moved their production to far east, this makes it harder but not impossible to keep up with supreme quality.

dsk