Reliable & Cheap Lighter?

[MarkC]

I use a Bic, but I'm trying to train myself to use wooden matches. Is it just me, or is the side stuff on the boxes a lot cheaper and thinner than it used to be?

[Mister Moo]

Reliable:


and cheap.

[RJpuffs]

Originally Posted by MarkC

I use a Bic, but I'm trying to train myself to use wooden matches. Is it just me, or is the side stuff on the boxes a lot cheaper and thinner than it used to be?

Eyeball the "Made in ..." part of the label on the matchbox and it is should answer that question

[Pugsley]

Originally Posted by MarkC

I use a Bic, but I'm trying to train myself to use wooden matches. Is it just me, or is the side stuff on the boxes a lot cheaper and thinner than it used to be?

It's my experience that everything is a lot cheaper and thinner than it used to be ......excepting myself, of course.

[Commander Quan]

I bought a Bentley Pipe lighter with my last order from smoking pipes. It works well, has an angled flame and a tamper that folds out, and it was less than $6

The only negative thing about it is that it requires a adapter to be able to fill it from a can of butane. My can of Vector butane came with 5 different adapters so I had the correct one but If it hadn't I would have been upset. The Website says nothing about needing the adapter.

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by Commander Quan

I bought a Bentley Pipe lighter with my last order from smoking pipes. It works well, has an angled flame and a tamper that folds out, and it was less than $6

The only negative thing about it is that it requires a adapter to be able to fill it from a can of butane. My can of Vector butane came with 5 different adapters so I had the correct one but If it hadn't I would have been upset. The Website says nothing about needing the adapter.

Gave $2.00 for mine - loved it - and it crapped out (leaks) in about 10-weeks.

[Mad Hatter]

I hate my Zippo but love my BICs. I keep about 6 of them around the house at any given time so finding one is never a problem, but somehow they always seem to congregate in the bathroom

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by Mad Hatter

I hate my Zippo but love my BICs. I keep about 6 of them around the house at any given time so finding one is never a problem, but somehow they always seem to congregate in the bathroom

I'll give you the rest of my Diet Coke, a cup of Carter Hall, some Compton's of Galashiels Balkan Mixture, four or five half-empty Bics and three new ones for one Zippo.

[Mad Hatter]

Originally Posted by Mister Moo

I'll give you the rest of my Diet Coke, a cup of Carter Hall, some Compton's of Galashiels Balkan Mixture, four or five half-empty Bics and three new ones for one Zippo.

Its one of those things that I never use but don't care to part with. Dunno......... Zips are classic cool but I'm used to a pressurized flame that goes where I want, when I want. Maybe I'd feel differently if I had half a dozen Zippos lying about the house but that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

[StufnPuf]

Bic gets my vote...I have a Zippo but I feel like the flame would be to big and wild. Bic is always the same size flame and it always lights til its out of fuel and you can't beat the price really.

[plexiprs]

Originally Posted by Mister Moo

Reliable:


and cheap.

[otto]

This is the best $5 I ever spent on a pipe lighter.

Lighters Bentley Lighter w/ Tamper (Black) Accessories at Smoking Pipes .com

[nsiops]

Do the zippo lighters impart a lighter fluid flavor to the tobacco?

[bfox]

Do the zippo lighters impart a lighter fluid flavor to the tobacco?

To me yes when I am lighting it I can taste the fuel .
I like the bics also .

Bill

[Z.Kramer]

Originally Posted by nsiops

Do the zippo lighters impart a lighter fluid flavor to the tobacco?

I have not noticed a flavor with the new fuel. But my zippo seems to run out of fluid incredibly quickly.