Coleman 502 Stove Manual
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Hello All, I have a couple of Coleman 502 stoves. I was more curious than anything to see if these stoves can run on Kerosene/Paraffin.
I uses only a small amount of kerosene in the fount. Used some spirits to heat the gen, and by the way these stoves are not designed to run on kerosene so it takes a bit more work to get them to light. The results are pretty good, but again it takes some patients and time for the stove to heat up and run properly. Here is the Coleman 502 running on kerosene. Again do not try this unless you are willing to take the time to properly light it. Cheers, Norman.
I have one 502 that I've been running on kero exclusively for about a year now. I wound a couple of spirals of 12 guage copper wire around the generator where the flame hits it on either side of the burner to aid in heat absorption and it runs very well in all phases, simmer to full. I did the copper wire without testing prior, so it may not make much difference, I just thought it prudent. I runs a bit hotter on kero obviously so turn it down a bit when using a heat drum or you may distort the grate.
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A short prime is all I've needed and haven't had any underburn or flaring issues. I haven't pulled the generator since I 'converted' it, but have run 5 or 6 full tanks of kero through it with no issues so far.
I'll pull the generator and see how bad the carbon deposits are tomorrow and report back. No smell until shutdown.
Burns very clean. I'm running low sulfur K-1 at present. Nearly out and will start going with red dyed K-1 shortly as I have about 20 gallons of it on hand. I expect poorer results from that, but time will tell. On a suitcase like that, you are asking a lot since the generator is steel. Thick steel at that. The photo starting the aux burner at first guess appears to be condensed kero vapor purging.
That long manifold tube doesn't get or stay hot enough to keep kero in vapor form. After that purges, my guess is, it would run just fine as in the second of your photos. Nice flames on both burner. I remember seeing a suitcase stove modified to run kero. It was commercially modified for marine use. Gasoline is generally accepted as unacceptable on boats due to its high volatility and heavier than air vapors which are a serious NO-GO on boats since they are by nature dishes that would collect such vapors. Notice the fiberglass priming pad and heat collector to superheat the generator.
The coil method may also work, but I would braze the coil to the generator tube to get better conduction. A smaller jet would help as well. I have some spare generators and will give it a go as well. I highly recommend NOT running these at full power on kero without a smaller jet.
That's a lot of additional BTUs that these stoves weren't designed to handle. You may burn some paint and warp your grills. Above all, be careful. Keep us posted. I can't really tell from the picture, but the priming pad looks more like fiberglass than asbestos to me.
Coleman did briefly make marine stoves in both alcohol and kerosene versions. They were very different from the suitcase stoves and sold poorly. A kerosene version just went for nearly $700 on. I agree on the need for a smaller gas tip orifice for kerosene.
Here is my 425B main burner at full blast burning Coleman fuel: And here is is on kerosene: The kerosene flame is obviously overpowered, with incomplete combustion, and an orange streak (not visible to the naked eye) rising from the opening of the mixing chamber. I noticed that it would run at full power fine if both burners were running but not with one.
I guessed that there simply wasn't anywhere for all the gas to go on a single burner so, I added a couple more burner rings to the main and Voila. Runs beautifully.
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However, I don't think I'll be running this config on a suitcase stove. The priming was a bear without a propane torch and I flooded the burners 3 times in the process, and the output of the aux after adding the rings to the main is worse. Bottom line: IMHO these run amazingly on Coleman fuel as they were designed. But for me, the extra trouble of extra priming and tricky lighting make this a no-go in my book. That is to say with MY configuration.
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A generator fabricated from another material, bigger burner and manifold tubes, or jet change may make it more feasible. If it works reliably for you, please update with what you did. My 502 still runs like a champ on kero and I'm keeping it that way. But it's a different animal than a suitcase model.