i have seen those fold flat solid fuel type of stove's made of one piece aluminium, if you fold them can you fold them flat gain without weaking it ?

Do you mean the folding Esbits @ the size of a playing card pack? They are hinged and refold without problem. My unit is stamped West Germany and works as well as a collector's stamped with an even earlier political regime <img src="images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Hello !!

In France the "Vieux Campeur" sells two kinds of solid fuel stoves :

- the ESBIT stove, wich, as Chris K. said, can be re-used a few times, as it has some kind of hinges to unfold/fold it. How long will it keep folding ..??..
It is sold for 7.7 Euros ( 1 Euro = 1 US dollar, or not far away these days), including 20 Esbit fuel tablets.

- the AMIFLAM stove, used by French Army, is supposed to be re-usable about 10 times, before breaking. You have to bend it - no hinges. Sold for 0.8 Euro (yes, less than 1 Euro !!), including a box of standard matches and 6 tablets of Amiflam solid fuel (supposed to last a bit longer than the Esbit tablet).
I keep one in my car PSK, strictly for emergency (ie being snowbound on the highway a whole night ... it happens sometimes in France ...) <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

http://www.vieuxcampeur.fr/gp/asp/produit.asp?codprd=22432
If this link works, it should get you to the page of the Amiflam stove, on the Vieux Campeur catalog.
The Esbit stove is on the next (click on the "suivant" button) page.


Alain

yeah i was talking about the french army one, exsept they cost € 2.55 here and you don't even get matches or fuel <img src="images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

I guess I could buy a few and send them to your address .... if postage is not too expensive ...

Here is a model that has worked reliably and repeatedly for a 6 month tour. And the Tri-Fuel will bring a GI canteen cup to a roll with about 1/4 a tab! Much better than esebit!

http://www.actiongear.com/cgi-bin/tame.e...2Fresults%2Etam

are those "TRI-FUEL -Trioxane compressed fuel bars", just plain old compressed trioxide ?, if they are i allready got them. i also already got a stove with's looks the same, but is a bit bigger and made of diffrent material.

And there's a lighweight Esbit stove that folds REALLY flat. It's popular among backpackers.

http://stores.yahoo.com/adventuretools/wingstove.html

Sounds like the good old Tommy Cooker. I don't think it would be wise to fold it any flatter than it already does.
There issued to us with our ration packs down here in Australia.
They do tend to rust out after a lot of use. Bit tricky to balance a yank style cup canteen on them but we have seen a hexi stove that fits to the bottom of the yank cup canteen that does a good job.