http://alittleabout.com just about any thing Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:07:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://alittleabout.com/coleman-428-700-3-burner-dual-fuel-deluxe-liquid-fuel-stove-review/comment-page-1#comment-39 ColoradoDoug Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:07:26 +0000 http://alittleabout.com/?p=38#comment-39 We purchased this stove last season and took it still in the box to the Grand Tetons, 12 hours from our home. Next morning, with great anticipation, we opened the box, filled the tank with fuel, pumped it up and turned the valve. Fuel started leaking from the valve assembly. We were in camp, had a campfire burning not five feet from where we were leaking highly volatile gas. We moved the tank further out of camp and depressurized the tank, drained it the best we could and repacked everything. This season we unpacked the stove to check it out and found that the assembly plant had not installed the -O- Ring at the valve seat thus causing the leakage. Contacted Coleman two weeks ago and have received only an automated reply. Called Coleman and was tied up in their automated answering tree and could not leave a message or talk to a live person. Coleman offers a Limited Life Time Warranty on this stove. It may take my limited life time to get any action from Coleman. The store I purchased the stove from has since gone out of business so no return opportunity there. The moral of the story, test your father's days gifts the day you get them. We purchased this stove last season and took it still in the box to the Grand Tetons, 12 hours from our home. Next morning, with great anticipation, we opened the box, filled the tank with fuel, pumped it up and turned the valve. Fuel started leaking from the valve assembly. We were in camp, had a campfire burning not five feet from where we were leaking highly volatile gas. We moved the tank further out of camp and depressurized the tank, drained it the best we could and repacked everything. This season we unpacked the stove to check it out and found that the assembly plant had not installed the -O- Ring at the valve seat thus causing the leakage. Contacted Coleman two weeks ago and have received only an automated reply. Called Coleman and was tied up in their automated answering tree and could not leave a message or talk to a live person. Coleman offers a Limited Life Time Warranty on this stove. It may take my limited life time to get any action from Coleman.
The store I purchased the stove from has since gone out of business so no return opportunity there. The moral of the story, test your father’s days gifts the day you get them.

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