Show off your traditional knife and Lighter

As tongueriver tongueriver notes, there are alternatives :cool:

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The red tipped 'Storm Matches' (translation) are real little fire-raisers .

I used to have a very old fashioned blow-lamp made of brass using a pump to get pressure and paraffin (kerosene?) as fuel, played with it no end as a kid when others weren't watching:D they've long been replaced by butane fed torches, pity...;)
 
Rsmith_77 said:
Huh I've never had one leak
And I just realized I keep it in the same pocket as my knife 😵‍💫

I have considered looking into butane inserts
I never had one of those before

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I AM a smoker sooo
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Yeah, I would compensate for my lack of regular usage by overfilling occasionally. My bad, but leakage was inevitable.
 
My Zippo was a gift, many years ago, from my friend paulhilborn paulhilborn :) I haven't smoked for a long time, but find a lighter a useful thing to carry, and it gets used regularly. I added a butane insert some years back, it burns just like the standard Zippo, holds a lot of gas, and doesn't leak :thumbsup:

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My Zippo since 30 years. A Zippo with fluid. I learned about butane inserts by reading this thread. I won't change anything. A Zippo leaks, so what ? That's what fluid lighters have always done.
If I install a gas insert I might as well end up with stainless blades. No way.

Dan.
 
I have never heard of butane inserts either, but I love my stainless steel bladed pocketknives so that qualifies me to get one and use it. (Only funning with you Dan). I used to carry my lighter (I don’t smoke) but just to make fire if I needed it but quit over time, I do think I will look into one of the butane inserts. OH
 
It's not leaking with the fluid Zippo it's evaporation, the stuff just seems to vanish just when you need it o_O

All pocket-knife steels are good in my book :cool: dantzk8 dantzk8 that Zippo of yours is carbon steel right.......;)

When I smoked a pipe (not Crack..) back in the last century :eek: and pipe smoking is really traditional smoking not the rubbish and effeminacy that are cigarettes:D would NEVER let any fluid lighter near my pipes, horrible flavour, had to be matches or butane lighters:thumbsup:
 
I'm not so worried about leakage, more evaporation. Empty Zippo is some use, but I'd rather have fuel in it. I have a couple of rubber covers for my petrol models, which fit over the wadding, and do reduce evaporation, but for a non-smoker, like me, who isn't using a lighter every 20 minutes, butane makes sense :thumbsup:
 
I'll admit I had done a little reading before I bought my Zippo and read the whole butane discussion so I bought a Zippo, plus an extra butane insert and bottle of butane just in case. I'm leaving mine as it is for now but might use the butane in the future. My dad was a 25 year Navy man and I think for me, part of the charm is that I remember my dad always fooling with his lighter and adding fluid and wics and flints. He had one of those old black ones that he called his Navy lighter. I wish I had it, but I'm sure my mom threw it out after he died of cancer since my mom hated his habit.
 
jec88 said:
I'll admit I had done a little reading before I bought my Zippo and read the whole butane discussion so I bought a Zippo, plus an extra butane insert and bottle of butane just in case. I'm leaving mine as it is for now but might use the butane in the future. My dad was a 25 year Navy man and I think for me, part of the charm is that I remember my dad always fooling with his lighter and adding fluid and wics and flints. He had one of those old black ones that he called his Navy lighter. I wish I had it, but I'm sure my mom threw it out after he died of cancer since my mom hated his habit.
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Small world. I had a Navy buddy who said, one of the hardest parts of quitting smoking, was giving up fooling with his lighter. Kind of like knife fidgeting I guess.
 
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