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OCT. 18 ISSUE ANSWERS: From this angle, it is obvious that it is an iron. But what is that thing on the front? Our museum just received this 1926 Coleman iron. This is the craziest iron in our collection, also the most dangerous. We have all the owner’s manual directions for it. This is what they say: Step 1: Go out doors to the garage, shed or barn and fill the front tank carefully with filtered gasoline, petrol. Step 2: Return inside and open the top exposing the bottom tank of the iron. Place three spoons of alcohol in the bottom of the iron. Step 3: Light the alcohol with a match and place the top with the handle attached on an angle so that the burning alcohol flame hits the side of the gasoline filled tank on the front. Within three minutes the gasoline will heat up creating pressure in the front tank. Don’t burn yourself. Step 4: Close the handled top. Gasoline fuel will expand through the inside tube enabling the alcohol flame to ignite the gasoline. If this doesn’t ignite, use a match. Step 5: Adjust the flame with the enclosed wrench or knob. Start ironing. Don’t burn yourself. No more instructions! I don’t know how you turn it off. Place it on a rock on the back porch? No one in Romeo would have used this object in 1926 because Romeo had electricity for 25-30 years. Corded electric irons were readily available. Anyone interested in firing up this wonder? R. Beringer, Romeo Historical Society staff

OCT. 18 ISSUE ANSWERS: From this angle, it is obvious that it is an iron. But what is that thing on the front? Our museum just received this 1926 Coleman iron. This is the craziest iron in our collection, also the most dangerous. We have all the owner’s manual directions for it. This is what they say: Step 1: Go out doors to the garage, shed or barn and fill the front tank carefully with filtered gasoline, petrol. Step 2: Return inside and open the top exposing the bottom tank of the iron. Place three spoons of alcohol in the bottom of the iron. Step 3: Light the alcohol with a match and place the top with the handle attached on an angle so that the burning alcohol flame hits the side of the gasoline filled tank on the front. Within three minutes the gasoline will heat up creating pressure in the front tank. Don’t burn yourself. Step 4: Close the handled top. Gasoline fuel will expand through the inside tube enabling the alcohol flame to ignite the gasoline. If this doesn’t ignite, use a match. Step 5: Adjust the flame with the enclosed wrench or knob. Start ironing. Don’t burn yourself. No more instructions! I don’t know how you turn it off. Place it on a rock on the back porch? No one in Romeo would have used this object in 1926 because Romeo had electricity for 25-30 years. Corded electric irons were readily available. Anyone interested in firing up this wonder? R. Beringer, Romeo Historical Society staff

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