Butane or Regular ?

[n2ize]

What type of lighter do you prefer ? A butane or a regular ? By "regular" I mean the type that uses regular lighter fluid, much like the Zippo's. I prefer a regular. matter of fact I just resurected one of my old Zippo's. I put in a new flint (borrowed from a cheap disposable butane), filled it with some Ronsonol and it's working great.

[PA5COR]

I have 4 zippo's and a bunch refill butane lighters, stormproofed as well.
Depends on what i like that week, normally the butane lighter is the choice, but sometimes one of the Zippo's gets resurrected ad a week the chance to do what it does best, light up my handrolled ciggie.

[WØTKX]

Butane soldering iron.

[KG4CGC]

If you're planning on lighting tobacco, butane. Of course is you are a purist, a sheet of cedar wood to light up.

[VE7DCW]

Butane soldering iron.

Agreed!! especially for all those cold weather heat robbing outdoor soldering applications on antennas ......a religious tool in my books!! :agree:

[WØTKX]

Butane torch too. I use that to solder more antenna connections than the iron.

[kb2vxa]

Actually it's isobutane also used as a propellant and refrigerant R-600a.

[KC2UGV]

Butane to light fires and candles. Preferably, the long necked lighters.

[N2RJ]

MAPP

Actually I have a number of different lighters. Some that use lighter fluid but the majority use butane. I have a butane torch that I use.

For the wood stove when I need to re-light I just use a long match.

[n2ize]

As I mentioned my preference is for a regular. But I do need to get a pack of flints. The flint I borrowed from the el cheapo disposable butane doesn;t seem to work to well in the Zippo. Doesn't give me a big and hot enough spark. Need to pick up a pack of Ronson or Zippo flints.

[n2ize]

During the 70's mostly hippies used butanes. They considered butanes to be much cooler than regulars. But most of us greasers stuck with regular lighters. What was good enough in the 1950's was good enough in the present. We didn't need new fangled junk from the later 60's/early 70's.

[KG4CGC]

Zippo lighters are nice objects but they stink. They smell bad.

[n2ize]

Zippo lighters are nice objects but they stink. They smell bad.

Eventually you learn to love the smell of lighter fluid.

[KG4CGC]

Eventually you learn to love the smell of lighter fluid.

Next time you grill outdoors, be sure to spritz your food with the lighter fluid.

[NQ6U]

Zippo lighters are nice objects but they stink. They smell bad.

I was at a tobacconist's shop when someone relatively new to cigar culture (for lack of a better term) whipped out a Zippo to fire up a pricey smoke he'd just purchased. The proprietor visibly blanched, asked the guy to stop, then reached under the counter, handed him up a multi-flame butane lighter and told him to keep it.

[KC2UGV]

I was at a tobacconist's shop when someone relatively new to cigar culture (for lack of a better term) whipped out a Zippo to fire up a pricey smoke he'd just purchased. The proprietor visibly blanched, asked the guy to stop, then reached under the counter, handed him up a multi-flame butane lighter and told him to keep it.

Now that was funny. I've seen the same thing too (Short of handing someone a free lighter).

[ka4dpo]

I quit smoking a long time ago but I still have a bunch of lighters, both butane and Zippos scattered around in drawers. Unlike most ex smokers who get all pissy when someone lights up I actually like the smell of tobacco smoke, I just can't stand to smoke it anymore.

[n2ize]

Next time you grill outdoors, be sure to spritz your food with the lighter fluid.

I said I like the smell of lighter fluid. I didn't say I like to taste/eat it.

[n2ize]

I was at a tobacconist's shop when someone relatively new to cigar culture (for lack of a better term) whipped out a Zippo to fire up a pricey smoke he'd just purchased. The proprietor visibly blanched, asked the guy to stop, then reached under the counter, handed him up a multi-flame butane lighter and told him to keep it.

Some people think the flame from a Zippo will impart a naphtha taste to the cigar. I don't buy it. I've lit cigarettes, cigars, and pipes with naphtha and never experienced any petroleum taste.

[KG4CGC]

I said I like the smell of lighter fluid. I didn't say I like to taste/eat it.

You will taste it if you use it to light tobacco. That was my point.

[W7XF]

I don't smoke (before, during, or after sex inclusive), but I keep a couple of butane lighters in the truck....they work great to heat up a key to thaw out locks!

[n2ize]

You will taste it if you use it to light tobacco. That was my point.

I've used Zippo's to light all kinds of tobacco and never noticed any lighter fluid / naphtha taste.

In the old days if we didn;t have lighter fluid handy we would fill the lighters with benzene. Matter of fact one of the recommended uses on the benzine can was "cigarette lighter fluid".

[KC2UGV]

I've used Zippo's to light all kinds of tobacco and never noticed any lighter fluid / naphtha taste.

In the old days if we didn;t have lighter fluid handy we would fill the lighters with benzene. Matter of fact one of the recommended uses on the benzine can was "cigarette lighter fluid".

Then you have no taste buds.

One of the reasons many prefer zippos to light cigarettes is the flavor imparted.

[n2ize]

Then you have no taste buds.

One of the reasons many prefer zippos to light cigarettes is the flavor imparted.

I suspect the taste is in their imaginations. Naphtha is extremely volatile and is going to burn off in a matter of seconds.

[KC2UGV]

I suspect the taste is in their imaginations. Naphtha is extremely volatile and is going to burn off in a matter of seconds.

There's more than naptha in lighter fluid. But yes, it's highly volatile. Which is why the vapors travel through the cigarette easily, right to the taste buds, prior to combustion. Which lends a taste for the few couple of drags. You get the same effect (Different taste) when lit with a match. A butane lighter tends to impart no taste.

[kb2vxa]

Then let the match burn for a few seconds first until the paraffin burns off. Whatever you do DON'T be impatient or you'll have that nasty phosphorus taste in your mouth. BTW, if you run out of matches and don't have a lighter a Weller 8100 soldering gun works.