Subject: [pct-l] When Bluet Stoves came out???

[squeaknpup at yahoo.com (Jason Cramer)]

You can still get the pierce canitsters at REI
  
  
  
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  Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:47:04 -0700
  From: Jeffrey Olson <jjolson@gwtc.net>
  Subject: [pct-l] When Bluet Stoves came out???
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  My first stove was a Bluet, the predecessor to the gaz brand I think.  
  I 
  bought it in 1969 or so.  I think Monte Dodge would know this history 
  better.  I saw a picture somewhere of his basement - filled with 
  classic 
  stoves...
  
  Jeff, Just Jeff...
  
  Michael Doughty wrote:
  
  >
  > *I think **Camping Gaz* <http://www.campingaz.com/sunbeam/index.asp>*  
  > pretty much invented the canister-top stove back in the early 
  > seventies. The first ones didn't have a self sealing valve, so once 
  > you attached the canister, you had to leave it in place until the 
  fuel 
  > was* *exausted.  Since then this problem has been fixed, but most 
  > manufacturers have gone with a self-sealing threaded valve which is 
  > pretty much universal, despite what they might tell you.*
  >
  > *Camping Gaz stoves and fuel canisters are still very popular in 
  > Europe, but harder to find in the US. MSR makes a canister-top stove, 
  > The Super Fly  <http://www.msrcorp.com/stoves/superfly.asp> with a 
  > "Multi-Mount" that can accomodate both types of canisters, but this 
  is 
  > less useful to folks who travel primarily in the US.*
  >
  > ** 
  >
  > *Woebegone*
  >
  >  
  >
  > --- In pct2006@yahoogroups.com, "Lawrence Beals" <lbealsjr@...> 
  wrote:
  > >
  > > The GAZ stoves were some of the first canister stoves, I think I 
  > bought my
  > > Globetrotter in the late 70s. At the time it was pretty cutting 
  > edge, two
  > > tall pots that fit over each other and the stove fit inside it. I 
  > still use
  > > the pots etc and just have replaced the stove with a different 
  > burner. They
  > > used a small piercable cartridge that is no long available. The gaz 
  > lanterns
  > > still use the larger piercable cartridges. The newest GAZ stoves 
  use a
  > > threaded cartridge.
  > >
  > > Much more popular overseas and especially in SA when I was in Chile 
  and
  > > Peru. If I was going to backpack outside of the USA and wanted to 
  take a
  > > cartridge stove then one that could use a GAZ cartridge would be a 
  > serious
  > > contender. Coleman bought out Camping Gaz a while back and some of 
  the
  > > coleman stoves bear more than a passing resemblance to GAZ stoves.
  > >
  > > http://www.campingaz.com/
  > >
  > > hike safe
  > >
  > > Bear
  > > PCT2007 - back to lurking
  > >
  > >
  > > On 3/14/06, Jenn jennhead22@... wrote:
  > > >
  > > > As far as I know, most canister stoves (at least the newer ones) 
  > can fit
  > > > any
  > > > canister. There was a discussion recently about this on the 
  PCT-L. One
  > > > person noted that they experienced a leak , but that was beacuse 
  > they were
  > > >
  > > > leaving the stove on the canister in their pack. Duh.
  > > >
  > > > I've never heard of a Gaz stove.
  > > >
  > > >