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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seadog" data-source="post: 3769383" data-attributes="member: 9018">Walmart sells white gas in the camping section. They have a generic and Coleman brand. It’s like 10 or 14 bucks between the two. Some Coleman lanterns and stoves have gray fuel tanks on them. Those are specifically designed to use regular automobile gasoline or the Coleman white fuel. The main difference is the generators have slightly larger orifices.Like another member mentioned if you use regular gas and leave it in there it will gunk it up and cause issues. There is a trick though. You can put a cap full of fuel injector cleaner in with the gas and it will help prevent gunking up the generator. Whatever you do don’t store regular gas automobile in it. It will gunk up the generator.If you know what you’re doing you can actually bring the generators back to life but it takes a little bit of work. Or you can just buy a new one. But the inside of the fuel tanks will get gummed up and will need to be taken apart to clean.The old Coleman fuel or white gas, same thing, it last forever. It may get a green or blue color to it but it still works fine. As a side note the same thing as zippo fuel. I’m a little bit of a small scale Coleman collector. I have a small collection. Nowhere near as big as the other guy that says he has 100. I have maybe 30 lanterns and maybe a dozen different types of Coleman Stove’s.I got into collecting them just because it’s cool old Americana stuff that never stops working properly if taken care of. I remember using the stuff as a kid going fishing. They’re good to have around in case you lose power too.  Crack a window for ventilation and you can still cook with them and have light.</blockquote>

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