A storm-proof lighter which can weld?

[smoggy]

Maybe it's just me but I never seem to have much luck with electronic/electric lighter.....they just don't last long....

I have a zippo and a couple of zippolikes......I keep the ones I'm not currently using in seal top plastic bags(my roll up filter come in these) which prevents them drying out, and means I have a working one to hand at all times......

I do have in my tool box a gas powered torch, which is easily capable of soldering copper pipe and I've used it to aneal copper and aluminium.........

I expect if I was going to attempt a repair on a canoe I'd likely heat a metal tool and weld it.........

A word of warning on extended use of lighters...........they are not designed to have the flame running for extended periods and can in some cases over heat which can potentially lead to damage/leaks etc.......quickly melting the end of a synthetic rope may be OK, but if you going to be applying heat for any length fo time it's probably wisest and most efficient to use the correct tool for the job!

Smoggy.

 

[thelonlywanderer]

on the subject why not get one of these mini blow torches and use it as a lighter aswell?

fairly sure you could mend a kayak with it if you had to

http://http://www.gasproducts.co.uk/acatalog/GoSystem_MT2000_Micro_Gas_Blow_Torch.html

 

[jimford]

Agreed they are certainly cheap so would indeed be ok if they worked.
If you read my first post none of the three lighters I ordered actually work.
So that is not OK

Hence my verdict from personal experience that they are total crap
GS

!00% my experience with them! I bought 3 and none of them worked whatsoever!

Jim

 

[gunslinger]

!00% my experience with them! I bought 3 and none of them worked whatsoever!

Jim

I emailed them and told them that all three were useless,and the cover they supplied for my N95 was damaged.
They replaced them and to date 2 of the three replacement have ceased to work, and the replacement N95 cover clips snapped,so my conclusion is that everything they sell is total and utter garbage.

A lesson well learned
GS

 

[jimford]

I emailed them and told them that all three were useless,and the cover they supplied for my N95 was damaged.
They replaced them and to date 2 of the three replacement have ceased to work, and the replacement N95 cover clips snapped,so my conclusion is that everything they sell is total and utter garbage.

I took one apart to see what the problem might be and was impressed by the intricacy and component count for such a cheap item. Couldn't find what was wrong with it though!

Jim

 

[helixpteron]

I've got a couple of the Helios Storm lighters, one of which lives in my daypack, the other in my Packraft life vest, both work 100% since new and at £12 each from Field & Trek, I'm pleased with them.

 

[Silverclaws]

I've got a couple of the Helios Storm lighters, one of which lives in my daypack, the other in my Packraft life vest, both work 100% since new and at £12 each from Field & Trek, I'm pleased with them.

WOW !!!, It is a long time since my Helios looked like that in the picture, what a flame.

Now though, the cap has broken off, ( the hex screw looking fixings for the lid are not hex screws, but plastic look alikes). The fine tungsten wire at the top of the ceramic flame tube, long since broke and fell out, one time it was there, the next it was not. Take it apart, it is not a lot different from a disposable gas lighter, but has a much smaller fuel capacity. I took mine apart, because the spring lid failed to work, what spring it had, had broken, and the thing was only ten month old, but had daily use in that ten months.

There was a petrol lighter available in the 1950's, a lighter that could on tilting it, produce a petrol inspired jet flame via a seperate orrifice, it aimed at the pipe smoker, but advertising material at the time claimed the 'side jet', could and would create enough heat to solder metal with. The name of this lighter escapes me at the moment, but will post it when I remember.

 

[helixpteron]

I've got a couple of the Helios Storm lighters, one of which lives in my daypack, the other in my Packraft life vest, both work 100% since new and at £12 each from Field & Trek, I'm pleased with them.

I spoke too soon!

The next time that I tried to use my daypack Helios, I got 100% failure to function!

Checked everything, de-fueled it, refueled it, eventually it worked. Tested it over a few day's, and it still worked, then, when I went to use it, I again got 100% failure! :aargh4:

They're both going to be returned, when I want to light something, I don't want a Storm lighter that I no longer have any faith in! And I certainly don't want two of 'em!

 

[John Fenna]

Flint and steel - works for me!

 

[Thijzzz]

Flint and steel - works for me!

Difficult to light yer ciggies with tho...........

Though, nicotine addict as I am, I'v been known to use a firesteel on some birch barck to get my fix when my lighter malfunctioned

 

[John Fenna]

Easy to light your cigs with.....spark your tinder (carcloth/amadoo or whatevever) and aply coal to cig. If staying in one place for a while use the F&S to light a fire and use twigs/embers to light your smokes.
More portable than a bow dril cigaret lighter the flint and sreel is still my favourite and was more than likely the choice of Iron age man in Britain for lighting his B&H or Woodbines.....

 

[Siberianfury]

ive gone through about 6 of those, they kept breaking so i went back to my zippo

 

[gsfgaz]

good old zippo, ive not one yet .. but they r bombproof...

 

[Siberianfury]

id recomend them, there the most proven lighter there is

 

[wedgie]

i have the imco triplex super 6700 ,
Micro-Jet Gas Torch and a zippo. the zippo lasts about 3.5 days on a fill
the triplex about 7days.
the Micro-Jet Gas Torch
* A self-igniting gas torch offering the ultimate in portability
* Runs solely on butane gas and is filled by simply buying a disposable lighter
* Ideal for the hobbyist, electrician, repair person and DIY expert
* Supplied with full operating instructions

A self-igniting gas torch offering the ultimate in portability. This unit runs solely on butane gas and is filled by simply buying a disposable lighter. Ideal for the hobbyist, electrician, repair person and DIY expert. Supplied with full operating instructions
the disposable lighters used are kept away from the heat of the flame so as to pose very little risk to the user the only problem i had was of the light fingered types removing it from my kit
you can get them from maplin's

 

[harryhaller]