I hesitate to put this out on this particular forum but don’t know where it fits. I grabbed a new bottle of Ronsonol lighter fluid and it smells like perfume. Is there another brand available that just burns without a stink?

That's the only brand I have ever seen for sale around here. I mean in the last 30yrs or more. Heck, to us gun guys isn't it supposed to be 'perfume'? lol

There is a Zippo brand lighter fluid. Not sure if it smells like perfume now. Been a long time since I carried a zippo.

Sometime in the last few years they changed the ingredient from naphtha which had been used since forever to "light petroleum distillate", whatever that may be. That could be what you're smelling.

Ronson

Aliphatic hydrocarbons


Ronson Lighter Fluid MSDS

Zippo Lighter fluid:

Light Hydrotreated Distillate 70%
Naptha 30%

Zippo Lighter Fluid MSDS

Tried to find some lighter fluid the other day for my refillable type hand warmers. Couldn't find any lighter fluid!!! Got me to wondering about Coleman fuel for lanterns, stoves and such. Anybody have good advice for or against using Coleman fuel in such a device??

shootem,

Not a petroleum expert, but those seem to me to be two completely different types of fuels.

I had enough fuel burns on my legs when I carried a full Zippo lighter using regular lighter fluid to want to try using a "thinner", more volatile version in anything I'm going to be carrying.

You might just have to go to a smoke shop, Indian tobacco store, or some such, maybe in a bigger town to find genuine lighter fluid.

Geno

You think it's hard to find lighter fluid, try finding flints.

Years back when I still smoked, I put some lacquer thinner in my Zippo. It burned a big flame, yes it stunk.

According to this, Coleman fuel is a form of naptha. I am not sure, but I don't think everything called naptha is the same.

I have been using Zippo fuel in my handwarmers. It seems more volatile than Coleman fuel, but that's just a casual observation.

https://backpackerverse.com/coleman-fuel-substitute/

I don't smoke but I do use a lighter when I'm casting bullets. Also handy when lighting up my propane torch to anneal brass. I tried Coleman fuel and it worked fairly well as far as light a fire but it totally evaporated out in less than two days and I don't like the smell. That was here in our very hot summer and the lighter was left out in the shed where I do my work.
Paul B.

Ha!!

Used to charge my zippo wick with Escape by Calvin Klien for men.

Worked great, chick magnet too. If she smokes she pokes.

A Zippo will run on anything including low octane avgas. Should have some light oil in it for the benefit of the striker wheel.

If you read every one of the warnings on the MSDS from the Government about all the things we use on a daily basis, you'd just stay in your bedroom and never do anything. Everything on these looks like it will kill you and your family.

"Light Hydrotreated Distillate" are fancy words for kerosene. Naptha can be bought at Lowes or Home Depot in the paint thinner department. You could mix you own if it's hard to find.

Forgot about flints. Used to always see the little plastic piece with 5 flints for sale wherever cigs were sold. Haven't seen them in decades around here. The Bic changed contracting lung cancer for thousands of smokers.lol

Coleman fuel is gasoline. Period.

We always used Amoco clear premium.

They started selling Coleman fuel only because people
had trouble getting/using junk fuel. Leaded would plug up the
generators

Was ironic when they came out with dual fuel lanterns.

The old man told me he knew this old guy back when he was a kid, never bought lighter fluid for his zippo. Just tied a string on the fuel canister and dropped it into the fuel tank of the tractor. Always pack a zippo boy he used to say, they run on anything.

Best place to buy lighter flints is Ebay. Used to be real cheap, the last time I bought some a couple of years ago for my survival kit Zippo lighter.

I used to smoke and used a zippo lighter ronsonol lighter fluid is much better than zippo lighter fluid

Yup. I use it all the time. Works just as well, if not better than the lighter specific fuel.

Now that you have the can refill it with naphtha from the hardware store

Kingsford

Not a bad replacement.

Kingsford MSDS

Naptha: 60 – 100%
Stoddard Solvent (mineral spirits) : 60 – 100%

Gasoline works fine. some chicks dig the smell.

I've been burning Coleman fuel and White Gas in my Zippo lighter and hand held warmers for years and years. That white gas is right on the same shelf next to the Coleman fuel. I got no problems with 'em.

Next time you run across a bicycle inner tube, but off a few inches and save it. Take about 2 inches off that and stretch it right over the lighter. Then you'll have to roll it down to open the lighter and roll it up after you close it but that fluid fill will last 3 -4 times as long and you'll never get that leg burn again. It also makes the lighter water proof as far as I can tell from the 4-5 years I been carrying mine that way.

When I was a kid, our church had a 4th of July picnic and celebration. Someone always made a run to South Dakota for firecrackers/works. I had a Zippo lighter for lighting firecrackers. It ran out of fuel. We only lived a block from the church, so Dad took me home to refill the lighter. He overfilled it at the kitchen sink, and fuel ran down his hairy left arm. Naturally, he flicked the wheel to see if it worked. There was a sudden "poof" and his bare left arm no longer matched his hirsute right arm. When we returned home that evening, Mom had a fit about where on Earth the awful smell lingering in the kitchen came from.