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Personeusty
08/8/2009 at 12:28pm
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We had to re-kit last year as we decided to start camping again.

Is it just me or is Gelert stuff just rubbish?

1. Our cooker's knobs are made of a plastic which gets soft, so when the grill is on they just twist round and you can't turn it off. Contacted Gelert and the sent some new knobs. Bad design.

2. Sleeping bag. After 3 or 4 trips the stitching on one of the bags is coming apart, not around the zip, but between the panels. Bad manufacturing.

3. We have two airbeds. One camping-gaz and one Gelert...guess which one goes down?

I know Gelert is not top range stuff, but are my experences common?

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Personpetemillis
08/8/2009 at 12:40pm
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It's cheap. We do have a couple of Gelert sleeping bags though that have been excellent and had a hell of a lot of use. Both are mummy type bags. One full sizer that I used for years before getting a Snugpak, and now one of my kids uses it, and one junior size that my 7 yr old uses. No problems at all with either of them.

I guess with the cooker that plastic knobs are to be expected unless you were to spend much much more. What usually makes the knobs go soft is using a pan that too large, then a lot of the heat gets deflected downwards. And I suppose a grill will do the same. Definitely not optimal design, but the same can happen with low end domestic cookers as well - I've got a Belling integrated oven at home, that looked good on the face of it and it only cost a couple of hundred quid....but bad design means steam comes out of the oven and gets to the knobs, the poor quality transferred on writing rubs off, buttons fall out...shoddy, but cheap!


PersonHT James
08/8/2009 at 1:02pm
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It seems Gelerts quality control is not all it could be. I have had excellent Gellert stuff and some truly dreadful bits of kit from them. At the end of the day it is built down to a price I guess.

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