Re: Coleman heaters

Yeah. All cook-stove makers for example, advise customers to never use their product inside a tent. If they said anything else, and anyone died, they might be out of business. I think the same is true of candle lantern makers.

But in miserable weather, cooking inside tents for novice poseurs is standard practice, and probably less risky than ... What shall we say? Talking on a cell phone in your car? Take your pick of many possible comparisons.

For several years in early 1970s, as a young poseur, I made regular use of a very small, very poorly designed, kerosene stove inside a really tiny peeled-log cabin that I built with plank floor and five small windows.

It was necessary to clean chimney every three or four hours, which created a horrendous mess.

That thing cost $13, was very hot, intended for ice fishing shacks, a really lousy thing, basically, and probably quite dangerous if you didn't think carefully about the situation. I'm really glad I had it, a gift from my dear high school teacher, who purchased the thing on my advise for other purposes, then decided he'd rather not die from gas poisoning...

It probably should have been illegal. I assume the products discussed above are much safer.