1948 (March) Coleman 249 Scout Canada

This is my most recent 249 which was given to me as a gift.
It seemed to be all original except for a brand new generator and pump leather. The burner cap was unusable and there was a crack in the fount at the filler bung. I have run out of spare burner caps so used one from a gas lamp and sil-brazed it to a burner tube with damaged threads.
I also sil-brazed the crack in the fount.

 

Well fettled!

 

A good repair, the 249's are one of my favourite lanterns.

 

Nice work, Andrew.


Cheers

Tony

 

It cleaned up nicely Andrew and well done on the repairs

 

Thank you.

 

Thank you Andrew, well done, how can you know the year of fabrication. I just bought one and I would like to know

 

Hi @Leonardo Collares

have a look at either side of the lower writing for some letter stamps? The 3 signifies the 3rd month (I hope)



(thanks to Jakov for the image)

hope that helps

regards
pb

 

Well saved.
Must have been quite a lot of silbrazing work there.

 

I have just noticed now that the pump cap has two oil holes.