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How many bikers did you have to run off the road before you found the right thickness?

Not a one. Used my own bike tire tube. 👍

Zippo, yuck. Get a spendy Exotac if your into Zippo. Comes at a price but it's the evolution of the Zippo. Also the Exotac match case with UCO matches is a solid piece of gear.

Oh you rotten prick...that is going to cost me fucking hundreds!

Just ordered the FreeKey and have saved the reel and the match case to my watched list.

Screw you.

Just ordered the match safe, interesting enough it cost just over $66 in Australia...fishing reel next.

Its hard to see in the pic but I use a lighter and or matches and "trick candles". The party candles that re-light themselves when you blow them out. They are meant for kids birthday cakes but are perfect for getting a fire going.

In the bottom of the pic is a green one getting this fire going:



One practical field note.

Once they have been used, the relighting feature is only good for the first part of the candle, after that they are just regular candles. But a few of these weigh pretty much nothing, are cheap and work exceedingly well for getting a fire going. Use a candle to get a fuel tab going and you are good to go.

Brilliant. I hunt and guide in the Adirondacks through all 12 months and candles are often in a fire starting kit. Never even considered the relighting candles. I’ll have some in my pack soon.

Thanks.

I bought an exotac lighter just after new years. Nice lighter, but can be fussy when it's cold out. On a couple of occasions I had trouble igniting paper at our burn pile in very cold conditions.
Might work better if carried in an inside pocket.

I've never seen one. Doesn't that use ordinary lighter fluid? Is it any better than a Zippo?

The fuel chamber is o-ring sealed so the lighter fluid doesn't evaporate out as quickly. A Zippo will lose it's fuel by evaporation in pretty short order.

But overall I'm gonna say that my Zippo works better in cold conditions than my Exotac does, within the limited testing I've done.

You can use a bicycle inner tube that fits snug over a Zippo and it will slow the evaporation/leakage of the fluid.

I've done that for a long time. It slows it down but doesn't stop it.

huh interesting idea

late to this topic, but I have had one of these for about a year and a half…charges quick, never fails, and has the 100 lumen flashlight too!

https://tacticalgear.com/mission-made-tactical-torch-black

Doc_Holidude

Rem oil, Kleenex, and a vehicle cigarette lighter.