Outdoor lighters

[bagman]

I am looking for a repalcement for my old zipo and thought I would ask here for ideas?

 

[harry]

One of those cool Jet lighters :twisted: :twisted:

 

[Martyn]

windmill?

 

[bagman]

Martyn - if you find a good source for those give me a shout please?

 

[Tony]

I use the PB-207 Blue Flame Pocket Micro Torch; in the US it's called a blazer
It's really good although I don’t think it's as windproof as the windmill. Burns at 1300c though :twisted:

http://www.blueflamelighters.com/blue-flame-products.html

Be careful of the fakes, they are really crap

:super:

 

[Martyn]

Bought one that *looked* like a blazer from a local tobbaconists for £9 quid, it was indeed crap. It worked for about a couple of months, then stuff started falling off tyhe thing.

 

[Martyn]

Martyn - if you find a good source for those give me a shout please?

Will do baggy, I'm looking....

 

[Gary]

They're also suseptable to damp so keep it dry

 

[Martyn]

Gary, would that be the blazer, or the windmill - or both?

 

[Anonymous]

There seem to be a couple of windmill lighters here...

http://www.heinnie.com/cgi-bin/heinnie_store/web_store.cgi?page=FRATOTAB/accessories.htm&cart_id=

Pretty expensive though!

 

[Martyn]

Got a couple ordered, not the delta "hand grenade" but the regular "zippo" stlye, a little neater and more functional IMO. Much cheaper than Hiennie too.

Check out...
http://uk.geocities.com/outdoorsuppliesuk/Windmill.html

Site belongs to Joe from ODS (Joe, hope you dont mind me posting that page, I know it wasn't really for public consumption?) and he's a member here as well as BritishBlades, very good service, very cheap too.

 

[bigjackbrass]

Re the Windmill lighters, why on earth does such a rugged-looking lighter come in such a range of easy to lose colours? Zippo used to make an outdoors series (mainly different from the rest because of the small picture of a campfire on it, presumably so you can assure nervous types that you use it for real manly stuff and you're not going to do anything awful, such as light a cigarette with it) and one of the colour options was bright orange, probably the only really sensible choice I've seen. Not sure if they still make that one, though. I recall seeing a gift pack of a Maglite and Zippo, both in DPM camo, and my immediate thought was how many of those must be out there littering the forest floors of the world, misplaced by their owners.

 

[Martyn]

Funny you should say that BJB, these are the two I have on order....

Glow in the dark (or is it neon green?)

and..

Bright orange ... :-D

 

[bigjackbrass]

A little trawling turned up this link:

http://www.mertonandfalcon.co.uk/pricelist/retail/windmilllighters.htm

The prices seem reasonable compared with other UK suppliers. I've also found that Zippo have discontinued the orange "outdoors" lighter but make an almost identical model in Matte Orange, available at all the usual Zippo suppliers.

 

[bigjackbrass]

Anyone know anything about this lighter?

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=243&showAllImages=0

The site also sells firesteels, but they're almost thirteen quid!

 

[robs]

Yep

Brought one in department store for £10 about 2 years ago very solid in construction (metal lid and body), the burner is still going strong. It saw daily use when I smoked.

The only thing I would say is the paint finish is gone but the mirror is still in good condition


Rob :-D

 

[Barry Smith]

yes the price is far too high. But give these guys credit, they have got someone to submit a video - with music - of someone using a firesteel.

I dont think Ray mears would approve but it is worth a look for the amusement value: go right to the bottom

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=491

 

[bigjackbrass]

If fifteen quid is too high for this then do you happen to know of other suppliers? An internet search kept turning up the same place, at the same price of course, and I've never seen one locally.

 

[Martyn]

yes the price is far too high. But give these guys credit, they have got someone to submit a video - with music - of someone using a firesteel.

I dont think Ray mears would approve but it is worth a look for the amusement value: go right to the bottom

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=491

Too funny. Methinks the lad had a little help from an accelerant.

 

[bigjackbrass]

A bit of hunting turned up a Colibri Firebird Quantum locally, for about eleven quid. Looks perfect as an all-purpose, always-in-the-pocket lighter, although the "flameless" design probably makes it rather less effective in extremis than the Blazer or Windmill, and I'd say it seems a bit less rugged too. I also found a lighter shaped like a pair of breasts, but thankfully things are not yet so extreme that I'd need to resort to that.