Thanks for the pointer. I went to ebay and purchased the stove (albeit at a bit higher price than you were able to buy yours). I was always a bit dismayed at the price of the esbit and fuel at REI/EMS.
Hexamine can sometimes be difficult to buy at brick store outlets, but I have found an unusual supermarket source called Aldi's in th UK.
Bought 2 Kg of Hexamine for about $15 i.e. about 8 packets each containing 8 Tablets each about twice the size of a conventional Esbit Tab. The packaging fits quite nicely into the British Tommy cooker just like bacpacjac's photo.
I have vacuum sealed the packets as a last ditch fuel source.
I'm going to try using a smaller mug and then close the wings of the stove under the rim of the mug, holding it closer to the flame. This mug was just too tall for that.
Esbit does a wee stove with cup designed for esbit tablets
#253704 - 11/22/1210:20 PMRe: East German Esbit Type Stove
[Re: ILBob]
Phaedrus
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If you watch Amazon you can usually pick it up at a decent price. REI actually has a great price on ESBIT, especially if you buy enough to get free shipping.
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I read somewhere, maybe here, that you can light the tabs with a ferro rod if you scrape them to make shavings/powder. I've never tried it, but fatwood and shoe fungus work the same way so it makes sense to me.
No luck with that for me. I could not get it to light with a butane lighter until I broke it in half. It lit readily then.
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