Which butane for lighter?

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Gigante

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Which butane should I buy for Colibri and Blazer lighters?

Colibri recommends their own butane (of course):
http://www.elighters.com/c1.html
"In a recent independent test by New England Testing Laboratory, Colibri butane gas was found to be the cleanest of leading brands tested - and by a wide margin."

Colibri's butane is "double refined" which sounds good... and best-in-test sounds good too...

Until I read about "triple refined butane"... and I saw forum postings that said that triple refined is the way to go to avoid problems with clogging in Colibri's, not double refined...
http://blazerproducts.com/lighters/butane.html

So now I'm confused again... what about Colibri's best-in-test-double-refined butane vs triple-refined butane?
 
I've got the end of a can of Colibri butane from YEARS ago, and a new can of Nibo that I got with my Colibri Andromeda in august.

I asked them when I got my lighter what they suggested for butane and they gave me the Nibo can free :p. Only thing I don't like about it is that there aren't the tips for it like my colibri has, but at least I can swap the lids over when I'm ready to start on it. My dad seems to like how the Nibo works in his torch.

You'd figure the triple refined will be better than the double refined(can't see anything on my Colibri butane that says it's double refined, the Nobo says triple refined at least). Probably take me a couple months to kill off the colibri butane still.
 
I used to use any type, but clogging eventually became an issue. I switched to Zippo premium butane and my lighters seem (non scientific) to work better. I haven't had any clogging problems since.

Guy
 
Be careful with cheap gas in these lighters. One little clog and its ready for the junk heap.

If you use their gas at least you have a leg to stand on if something should go wrong. Besides, how much are we looking at between the good stuff and crap? A Coffee from Starbucks?
 
Temper said:
Be careful with cheap gas in these lighters. One little clog and its ready for the junk heap.

If you use their gas at least you have a leg to stand on if something should go wrong. Besides, how much are we looking at between the good stuff and crap? A Coffee from Starbucks?
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They have Starbucks in Japan?:D

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
They have so many in fact that they took about 75% of all coffee shop business the first year they opened. This is with the no smoking rule enforced too. Trad coffee shops gave you 'blend' coffee that tasted like melted down tires, but it was only $5. a cup.

Since 99 or so, there are many decent places, some direct rip offs of SB even using the same colours (what a surprise) but SB still reigns supreme.

Sorry Gig for the OT.
 
I use Newport in my good lighters and the local cheapo in my cheap lighters, if I have trouble with the cheap butane in any lighter I change to Newport which has always worked fine for me.

Luis

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Here I found something else..
Vector Butane.... refined not three but FIVE times!!

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Since I don't know anything about refining butane :confused: I can just assume that more is better and this should be the best of the best of the best?
Or is it like CPU:s and Mhz, ie. more is not necessarily better at all?

Edit: It seems I can't find a webshop that will ship butane refills to Sweden.... :(
 
Gigante said:
Edit: It seems I can't find a webshop that will ship butane refills to Sweden.... :(
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Hazardous cargo rules make shipping items like this one very difficult. Gun powder and fuel for my camping stove and lantern are very expensive and difficult to ship.
 
I went to a well-stocked cigar store today, asked for butane, and the woman handed me a can with some name I didn't recognize. The label said nothing about refinement, only that it contained "no impurities" ...
"There's only one kind of butane!!", said the woman when I asked for something else.. :) She thought I was a pretty anal customer and I guess I am... :)
 
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