Hello CCS members, I need your help locating fuel for a Camping Gaz Turbo 270 stove. The canister I'm looking for is the 220g CV270. I live in the US and can't seem to find this fuel anywhere. It's a shame because this is a great cooking stove. The flame control on this thing is excellent. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
They are common in the UK, and now Coleman own Camping Gaz, so check with them perhaps for stockists?
SingleBurner, can you take off the burner on the canister so I can see the connector on the canister? Alternative if that is a male screw on the canister would be the MSR canisters sold at REI. Curious, is that an alky stove beside the campinggaz? Kinda neat, is it being sold here in the US? Ron
Here is an old-school Army / Navy surplus store.....in....would you believe it.... Boulder, Colorado! http://boulderarmystore.com/ They have quite an odd collection of Fuel carts. A few months ago, I bougth out their remaining supply of CV360 carts for my Rando stove. Give them a call and see if they have any. If they do, I'll pick them up for you. Tim
Sam, looking at it, the burner is a home made coke alcohol stove. Its the pot stand am curious where it is being sold or who makes them. Gotta have one of those for sure! Ron
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give them a try. It's a shame Camping Gaz stopped selling in the US market. These blue stoves have been around as long as I've been camping. As to the question about the canister: it's a twist lock system and not a threaded lindal valve. And yes, you guys are correct it's a homemade alky stove. The pot stand is also homemade, with the exception of the wire portion which is a MSR XGK stand.
This 'twist-lock' system is the current Camping Gaz device. All small CG appliances use this connection now. The canisters you require are commoner than muck over here. Camping Gaz didn't stop selling to the US market. Coleman stopped Camping Gaz selling to the US market. It must have grieved Coleman sorely that punters such as yourself would opt for CG in preference to the indigenous product; so they took the obvious action in such circumstances and bought out the opposition , then discontinued their lines.
Argh, Capitalism! Interesting facts, thanks for sharing. What a shame because this is one of my favorite canister stoves. It works well in windy conditions and has a true simmer. Back in the day Coleman didn't offer many choices for canister stoves. As I recall most of their stuff was liquid fuel. So, back then Camping Gaz was the only way to go. As far as the twist-lock mechanism, I prefer it over the now standard lindal valve. Anyhow, it appears the fuel for this stove will be difficult to find in the US. Are there any CCS members across the pond interested in a trade? And if anyone is interested in my alky pot stand, I can post detailed pictures. Its quite easy to make and works as well as anything I've seen.
I still see these resealable Camping GAZ cannisters at Big 5 Sporting Goods and REI. BIG 5 and REI are relatively common out west. For info, the old style piercable cannisters are also sold at these stores. They are becoming less common but there always seems to be a few on hand. I bought some resealables last year and I recall seeing a few as recently as last week, so they are around at least in my area. Coleman did buy the US distribution rights for CampingGaz about 10 years ago. For awhile they sold the products but eventually converted the "appliances" to the standard threaded resealable cartridges and painted them Coleman colors and then stopped selling the CG products. Don't know if someone else is distributing them, but like I said, they are not hard to find around here. Good Luck, Jim Henderson
I too still see the blue Gaz canisters. REI, Sport Chalet, and A16 all sell them locally here. REI is probably in GA, but A16 and Sport Chalet are not. Have you tried Bass Pro (if there's one near you)? They carry an awful lot of things. I wonder if they still sell Gaz canisters in Mexico? I could drive across the border and pick some up, if the drug lords don't shoot me first that is.
I see that MEC in Canada still offers them. Obviously a little inconvenient when you live in Georgia, but they are out there. http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTprd_id=845524442628909 Hard for me to believe that Coleman has withdrawn the Gaz type canisters. There are quite a lot of people with stoves that use them out there. You'd think a smart entrepreneur would set up a contract with a manufacturer and sell a product that meets the Gaz spec. We already have quite a lot of competitive products available in the US that use the threaded valves (Brunton, Jetboil, MSR, SnowPeak, Coleman, Primus, etc.) No reason someone couldn't start offering a non-threaded valve canister. Hard to tell if there's enough stoves out there to support the business though.
Thanks for all the suggestions! We do have REI in Atlanta, I think there's four stores. We also have Bass Pro Shops, I forgot about them. I'll have to look into this. A few years ago Sports Authority had a couple canisters on sale, of course I bought the last two they had. And to think I was about to give up and retire the stove. You guys are the best!
SOS! I have the same stove - got it from REI in January 2008 at Superclearance sale. Now I know exactly why it was on sale! Both our local REIs run out of the CV270 canisters about half a year ago - I was fortunate to get extra ones in advance though. Yesterday I went to REI and asked them what's going on and they told me they do not have any plans on ordering more of these. Fortunately they have found 10 more of these in their backroom. My first question is: which stores might still carry them, I'm in particular interested in Minnesota stores. My other question is: I'm flying to Hawaii (Big Island) and then in a few days to Maui. You can not take gas cartridges on a plane. Does anybody know where can you buy them on the Big Island and on Maui. (Especially the CV270 ones). Thanks
Suggest you ask BigBTU as he lives in Hawaii. If your stove is exactly like the one pictured above, those things are still available at Big5 but marketed as Coleman not Camping Gaz. Ron
Hi All, I have a canister stove that requires CampingGaz and at my local REI ( Raleigh, NC) I picked up a CV270 - 230g - thinking it would fit my stove, but it doesn't fit my stove , so I'm stuck with it. I guess I can return it, but it's for sale if not. Only thing is, these canister must be shipped at a special rate, so that's the draw back in selling and then shipping. Check your REI in Atlanta , pretty sure they have a few. BTW , this is my gaz stove - does anybody know what canisters will fit this stove ? Wanna trade for a CV270 , if you have a canister to fit it ? Fuel connection fitting : Tom
That's an older piercable cannister design. The cans are blue, and smaller than the CV2 twist lock cans, about 200g fuel. Big difference is the piercable has a dimple on the top that is punctured by the spike on the bottom of the burner. This is NOT resealable so once you pierce the can you cannot remove it until the can is empty. These cans are usually available alongside of the resealable blue cans. If you need the model # let me know, but these cans are pretty obvious. Not sure but it is possible This might be an older GT type which uses the short piercable cans which are hard to find. Hard to say from the pictures. The GT has shorter legs/can holding clips. Not too likely since I think GTs came out in the 70s, at least in the US. Good Luck, Jim Henderson
To use, you unscrew the burner/valve from the sheet metal collar. You put a can in the collar, dimple under the screw hole and clip the legs over the bottom of the can. Can't tell from pictures so instead of leg clips, this might use a bottom cover to hold the can in place. Maybe some one with this model will step in. Once the can is secure, you screw the valve/burner in til it is snug and has pierced the can.
This very early Camping Gaz stove uses a cartridge that is even smaller than the GT106 cart used by the Globetrotter. As far as I know these early carts do not have any specific designation and probably hold somewhat less than the 90g of the GT106s. To say these early carts are difficult to get hold of is an extreme understatement. They make the Globetrotter's GT106 carts seem abundant. Check out this thread.
