Comments on: Gas Under Pressure Operates Lighter http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/09/gas-under-pressure-operates-lighter/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:45:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: NikFromNYC http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/09/gas-under-pressure-operates-lighter/#comment-1017355 NikFromNYC Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:37:42 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/09/gas-under-pressure-operates-lighter/#comment-1017355 I went on an obsessive compulsive "best lighter" hunt a couple years ago. From $8 to $80 (even $800), my simple test was failed by anything I tested except ONE lighter. Would it light when wet and (crucially and one would think, simply enough) stay lit with a good flame, upside down. That test was failed by almost every "gift quality" lighters I got my hands on. This $9 one is the best though: http://bugstores.com/shop/lighters.php?product=BSL2 They call them "torch" lighters since they use a palladium catalyst mesh to make the flame "whoosh" very hot instead of just flicker or blow out in the wind. I found that $60 lighters, although having cute shiny folding back head designs, didn't burn very hot, likely to avoid actually turning one's cigarette tip to black ash. This $60 one, which I unproudly own, is junk: http://2smokecigars.stores.yahoo.net/promliqx.html Now if you want a Bunsen Burner instead, in this case one that holds a full bottle of drugstore butane, they are available too: http://shorinternational.com/AlcoholBunsen.htm http://microtorches.ayay.com/MicroBurners.htm I went on an obsessive compulsive “best lighter” hunt a couple years ago. From $8 to $80 (even $800), my simple test was failed by anything I tested except ONE lighter. Would it light when wet and (crucially and one would think, simply enough) stay lit with a good flame, upside down. That test was failed by almost every “gift quality” lighters I got my hands on.

This $9 one is the best though:
http://bugstores.com/shop/ligh.....oduct=BSL2

They call them “torch” lighters since they use a palladium catalyst mesh to make the flame “whoosh” very hot instead of just flicker or blow out in the wind. I found that $60 lighters, although having cute shiny folding back head designs, didn’t burn very hot, likely to avoid actually turning one’s cigarette tip to black ash.

This $60 one, which I unproudly own, is junk:
http://2smokecigars.stores.yahoo.net/promliqx.html

Now if you want a Bunsen Burner instead, in this case one that holds a full bottle of drugstore butane, they are available too:
http://shorinternational.com/AlcoholBunsen.htm
http://microtorches.ayay.com/MicroBurners.htm

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/09/gas-under-pressure-operates-lighter/#comment-391423 Stannous Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:50:41 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/09/gas-under-pressure-operates-lighter/#comment-391423 3,000 lights? yeah, right... 3,000 lights? yeah, right…

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