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buzz

Matches or Lighers

Which do you use when starting your fuel?

Just a quick question which needs to be answered

I use a good Zippo every time!
Mamodman123

I use a lighter, but it's the cheap ones for a pound I buy from a shop in town

Buying matches is a little trickier anyway. You have to go to a newsagents, or swipe free packs from pubs
buzz

You can get matches in my local tesco 6 packets for about £2-£3
MTA

I use matches, but if outdoors in windy weather, I'll borrow a lighter
buzz

Nooo matches are winning
Roly Williams

I use matches, mainly because the lighter I used to use is knackered. Being a non-smoker, it's not worth my while replacing it. Besides, since starting to use matches, I find them a lot easier, especially for vapourising burners and tablets. The only problem is you have to keep the box dry (not so easy around steam engines).
Mamodman123

Roly Williams wrote:
I use matches, mainly because the lighter I used to use is knackered. Being a non-smoker, it's not worth my while replacing it. Besides, since starting to use matches, I find them a lot easier, especially for vapourising burners and tablets. The only problem is you have to keep the box dry (not so easy around steam engines).


That's true!

I have used them quite a bit, annoying when they won't light and the match snaps
steamyjim

i use one of the special lighters with a sort of trigger and the flame on the end long tube thet you can get into awkward places like firboxes
MTA

I need one of those
Steely

I use the stove in the kitchen because I used all the matches in the house up ages ago. So the stove is classed as a lighter really.
Griffin

I usually use one of those long lighter things, failing that anything I can lay my hands on.
Sandman

Candle lighter with the long tube.
oldstuff

I wait for lightning to strike a nearby tree...or the stick & bow method.

I use a Zippo
tmuir

I use my butane mini blow torch. Which is a kind of lighter.
Wallace

I use a lighter, only cos one always seems to be handy
sparky

i use lighters 12 for a pound at the pound shop
yosa

Yep, a long tube lighter for me.
buzz

oldstuff wrote:
I wait for lightning to strike a nearby tree...or the stick & bow method.

I use a Zippo


Can't beat a zippo but when i showed it to my dad he said i got a fake one because it didn't have the prisoners number on it which is just an urban myth
yosa

buzz wrote:
oldstuff wrote:
I wait for lightning to strike a nearby tree...or the stick & bow method.

I use a Zippo


Can't beat a zippo but when i showed it to my dad he said i got a fake one because it didn't have the prisoners number on it which is just an urban myth


Zippos are guaranteed for life. My uncle had one he bought in the sixties. A few years ago he dropped it in the road where it was run over and crushed by a vehicle, so it wasn't even a product defect. He sent it back to Pensylvania, they honoured the guarantee and replaced it.

Nice one Zippo.
Dauntless

I use matches (all non smokers here no working lighters)
sparky

yeh but i still get me lighters for the real engines easyier!
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