Ever since I quit smoking cigarettes, my Zippo lighters have been sitting in a box unused. You don't want to light a cigar with a Zippo, the fuel makes it taste like ass.
Saturday, when I went into my local cigar shop (which is closing, dammit), I found these bad boys. They replace the inner guts of a Zippo with a torch lighter, so I can now use them for my cigars, burning stuff, and what have you.
So my brass Zippo, with "Molon Labe" inscribed on it? Back in use. Booyah, baby.
They are pretty good. Mine stopped working reliably after about a year: seems there is some internal component that is now out of true, so just pressing the lever does not engage the igniter: I have found that slapping it down on a magazine or catalog puts it back in working order to light.
ReplyDeleteAnd I like having a lever nice, as opposed to building up a callous working the wheel. Why this did not make the move from table lighters to pocket lighters a century ago is beyond me. I gave one to a sister, whose friend had to have someone else manipulate the wheel or carry matches: the lever can be used with almost anything as a tool - book, table edge, even a medicine bottle...