Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought this Coleman product remembering my great camping experiences with white gas stoves and lanterns. As soon as I opened the box I knew I was in trouble. This stove is made out of cheap, easily dented metal. I unlatched the lid and the top would not come free. It was so tightly held, I thought there was a secret catch some where. I finally took a screw driver and popped the lid. It was being caught in the right front corner by the edge of the aluminum catch tray which was not formed correctly and slid in on top of the rolled lip of the cover. The next thing I noticed was that three of the four pop rivets for the cover side of the hinges were broken off and the cover was "flapping in the breeze". I was about to go on a long camping trip and really needed this stove, otherwise I would have returned it in a heartbeat. I re secured the cover with stainless pop rivets, but no matter how I tried to tweak the catch tray edge I could not get it to stop catching on the closed cover. I elected to take the tray out to see how to bend it down better. Well the tray is held in by two of the softest snap rings I ever encountered. These hold the tray down by locking in grooves on the two burner tubes. These rings were stretched and distorted as soon as I expanded them. This made me wonder, if some soup or spaghetti water overflowed it would drain into the very bottom of the case because the splash tray has big holes in it. Coleman provides no easy way to remove the tray for cleaning I fashioned some spacers from 3/4" copper water pipe that slid over the tubes so screwing the burners on pushes down on them and also the tray. Duh! coleman couldn't think of this! I finally had to cut the corners of the tray with a tin snip to keep it from catching. Oh yeah, I've seen paper clips thicker than the little metal wires that hold the wind wings in place. Run away from this model fast. My credentials? Twenty- one years propane and HVAC technician.