I think these differences are covered in some reference thread somewhere. I have two Globies too and the pan handle slots are different on those. Did you mean pawn shop........?
Hi @It’l Dodat @Chris J . There are different versions of the pans on Globetrotters: Svea 123 and Globe Trotter pan set. Best Regards, Kerophile.
Both of my globetrotter pan sets have one pan with one slot and one with two. It has come close to the strap sliding off the unrestricted corner but only while inside a backpack so no where for anything to escape to. Regards John
Chris J............ "A-hem" Ooooooops ! bit of a slip-of-the-toungue there..... Got mixed up between what I did and what I'd have liked to do..... Kerophile.... went through that, thanks, but I'm still not home dry... Which of the two sets is the older? the set with <cumulative> 3 handle clips or the set with only 2 handle clips
This is a pan-set from a Globetrotter 270. It is the most recent of the ones I have seen and dates from the late 1990s/ early 2000s. Globe Trotter 270. On this set there are NO aluminium strap loops/ pan-grips. Instead the weave of the straps has elastic thread incorporated, intended to grip the surface of the pans as you tighten the straps. A pan gripper is included in the set so that you do not need the Al loops. I assume this development was the result of “Value Engineering” aka cost reduction in manufacture. Best Regards, Kerophile.
@It'l Dodat In an earlier post on this thread @Ian suggests that the ‘three lug’ pan set is the later version. I would tend to agree. I have two sets with three lugs and three sets with two lugs (stay with it, it gets easier!). In the photo below the three lug versions are on the left. One of the three luggers is shown here, and the other one (far left above) came in a box with instructions marked 3-76 in one of the vertical margins. If the numbers mean manufactured in March 1976, this is late for a Globetrotter that uses pierceable GT106 canisters. The position of the lugs was also moved when the design changed from two lugs to three.
I wrote this earlier but didn't press send! Seems a shame to waste it... I have an original GT and that has only one handle bracket per pan. I know it's an original, because I was there when I bought it as a boy ha ha. The slightly later version did have additional pan slots and made the strap more secure. As pointed out, the 270 didn't have slots at all. Here's my extensive GT collection. Well, both of them that is. But I do have the lantern as well... different forum for that one.
That's great information, thanks. We know a bit more about the evolution now. Can you tell us what year you bought your stove please?
Ooooof! Now you're asking. Well, I didn't keep the receipt of course. Working it back, I remember having it when I got my first tent as a birthday present and I camped out in February in the back garden. I had the stove then because I lit it to try to prevent hypothermia setting in. That would make it around 1975 / 1976. People might not see these as classics, but it's still a 45 year old stove! It has a very dear spot in my heart. Before that I was cooking on those fold out army stoves with the white fuel tablets. That's a fantastic collection of GTs you have there. Probably half the world's surviving stock!
Those old gazzies definitely qualify as classics. Here's an example on the Wonderland Trail, 1963: Photo by Jim Fredrickson
Odd that this one seems to have that fold out plastic base. We had a Bluet long before I got my GT and that had a fixed base a bit like the fan on a car radiator. But then I'm not a stove historian by any means.
@Ed Winskill will correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure the one in Ed's picture is the standard Bleuet S200 stove and stand like this image. The stand clips off and folds 'shut' so that it looks like a large blue candy bar. This set-up was the bee's knees in the 60s
Looks like it, though I actually know nothing about these types of stoves. But now and then, somebody questions 'classic' status for gassies and I recall this old photo of 57 years ago now. This was a group of dads who were our Boy Scout leaders back then. The photo was taken by our main Scoutmaster, Jim Fredrickson, a man whose character and attainments I've discussed several times in years past here at CCS. We Scouts cooked on campfires back then, which were still standard in the Nat'l Park backcountry in those days. Though, as I've reported before, on one of our 50-milers I carried my Optimus 45-- nobody told me it wasn't a backpacking stove... These old Scout pix always bring up great memories, and give me pause too-- all of these men, whom I knew well both in youth and adulthood, are now long dead.
Great bit of history. But again I'm surprised that they had a Camping Gaz stove. The US has only just discovered that Remington isn't the only company in the world who make rifles, so to have had a CG stove back then must have been quite a thing. To have broken into the US market back then would have been seen as pretty incredible. The chap on the left looks like he's about to drop some fresh pine needles in for another brew.
A breathtaking assertion! Winchester and Marlin do come to mind, among others..... I think the man on the left is putting a band-aid on a blister. He is Bob Evans, an architect who became a local city councilman for years. The next dad I don't remember. The next is Bill Archer, one of our scoutmasters, who moved out of the area a few years later. The rightmost, reclining, is Vern Pearson, the father of my best friend back then. He was a lawyer, who later became a state Court of Appeals judge and eventually a justice on the Washington State Supreme Court. It was his example that inspired me to become a lawyer myself.
Oh boy, a lot to respond to: - Guys, one and all, thanks for the info, It seems to "gell" with my fading memory. My love and respect with and for this particular stove, is way back in the late 70's I decided that I would like to get to do a bit of hiking, and kitted myself out with, what was then, just about the very best in gear one coud get. ironically, some of that gear was manufactured right here in SA, by Backpacker, and I bought into their intergrated system being the backpacker-kestrel ridge tent, the backpacker-Benodorm sleeping bag and the backpacker 75L -Boulder backpack ---- bear with me here... Other "key" gear included Dachstein hiking boots and cookware.... Now when it came to cookware, the person I was dealing with presented me with the Trangia, the Optimus and the Globie For practicability, the Globie stood out and that's what I went with.... Long story short, after a number of hikes, I tackled a biggie in the wild country in the Natal Drakensberg conservatory, and way up in the mountains bad weather was fast approaching, so I decided to wait it out, hunkered down, full pitched the tent (all the pegs) and crawled in.... 4 days later, after buffeting storm-strength winds & windswept intermittent rain, I crawled out.... (The last day was so misty, It was too dangerous to do anything)..... Anyway, that globie saw me through...... Quite an adventure............ Now If my ne brain cell concurres, only had 2 pot handle clips, one on each billy..... POST MORTEM One thing and another, all my kit went missing and I spent 40 years getting it all back together again.. happily I've managed that and, barring them boots, have all the same gear again.... Now-a-days I car camp out of my Landrover, and as I still travel solo, That gear, including the globie definately saved my bacon back then and earned my utmost respect, and I have absolute faith in it. I have put all that gear in a steel footlocker on the roof-rack of my Landy as a GBHB kit in case I have to walk out........... With a few changes........ The backpack, Not the same color) is strapped to a collapsable golf-cart, the theory is that I will be able to "cart" the weight rather than carry it but can carry it if necessary, The tent is also not the same color, although I have since fond one exactly the same) and the globie I've modded to take the 190G cylinder by making longer legs with 5mm wire.... And that's what started me collecting camp cooksets and cookers and old tents...... Hope I haven't bored you all to tears, here are a few photos, of the gear as it is today backpack removably strapped to a golg cart as a GBHB (get back Home bag) My car camping set up backpacker kestrel 4 seasons ridge tent Sleeping bag And Globie modded for the 190g canister
Couple of GTs on E bay at the second. One unused but with only 1 pan. Nice but for a stove that you can't get gas for, £40 seems a bit steep.
