My gawd was my propane lantern 🏮 plugged up with black soot and mud!

I’m hoping my bath of carburetor cleaner will get it humming along again! I smell so wonderful and my hands are so black. Can’t really test it inside or today but hopefully before I go camping next time. ⛺ But both me and my kitchen stink.

Not sure why it got plugged up by the generator is pretty simple in the propane lantern to take apart and clean unlike the liquid fuel appliances I have. With propane lantern it’s just a simple nozzle, not a generator tube. Propane after all is a gas when it leaves the tank, doesn’t have to be heated to a gas. The soot could have been the air intake restricted by mud plugged it or because most of the time I operate the lantern at low, below the stoichmeteric ratio.

I’m still looking at getting an electric rechargeable LED lantern 🏮 mostly for backpacking and in the tent. The glass is fragile and if I bring either the liquid fuel or propane lantern it’s heavy. Plus I can’t have it in the tent for winter camping. Sure that would have to be recharged daily but with the solar in my truck that ain’t an issue.