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Probably not the most interesting of posts but here goes.

For various reasons my "rope end sealing" lighters have a lanyard. Hitherto I've used tape to attach the lanyard, it's messy and generally unsatisfactory.

Today I noticed a lighter which someone had drilled for a key ring. I was a bit reluctant to drill near butane but I took the flint tube out and it looked like there was loads of space. Sure enough, it worked a treat, and no 🔥.

Small wins.
 

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Mark-1 said:
Probably not the most interesting of posts but here goes.

For various reasons my "rope end sealing" lighters have a lanyard. Hitherto I've used tape to attach the lanyard, it's messy and generally unsatisfactory.

Today I noticed a lighter which someone had drilled for a key ring. I was a bit reluctant to drill near butane but I took the flint tube out and it looked like there was loads of space. Sure enough, it worked a treat, and no 🔥.

Small wins.
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That sort hurt my thumb.
 
Is there any special trick to refilling them?

I always seem to end up spraying liquid butane all around and maybe getting about 10% in the lighter.
 
ducked said:
Is there any special trick to refilling them?

I always seem to end up spraying liquid butane all around and maybe getting about 10% in the lighter.
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Even with a heavily used wood burner, stove on the boat, camping stove, regular fires on the beach and a pyromaniac 8yo lad I only refill lighter a couple of times a year, but no, refilling usually works well for me. Sometimes nothing will happen and I just reseat it and try again. (I'm far from an expert, one refill can of butane lasted me 13 years, and ran out last winter.)
 
Lidls sometimes have a turbo type lighter. Even came with some spare gas. Always seemed to work and a decent flame for fairly large diameter ropes.

Lost mine so I must remember to get another if they become available.
 
penberth3 said:
Correct.
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Hmm...Tough crowd.

I have a very LONG storm lighter story which starts with an exploding puppy in Calcutta and then a very LONG account of getting a train to the wrong Shrapnel Railway Station near Calcutta (the right one was fairly close to the airport) and then very LONG negotiations for a very LONG pedal rickshaw ride for VERY VERY little money (because I'd offloaded all my local currency before leaving) in which I acquired a local hero reputation with one half of the village as the toughest negotiator they;d ever seen (because I didn;t have any money) and a cheering sendoff (the other half thought I was a real shit, which by the time I left the sweat covered wallah outside the airport. without a tip, was how I felt too)

But given the toughness of the crowd, I'll skip all that, and take it up at the airport.

Thanks to the wallahs heroic and underpaid exertions I was in plenty of time, but security was heavier than I'd seen elsewhere, even Israel. Long queues, multiple checks, possibly because they have a lot of people with guns and need to find them something to do.

Last desk, yet another passport check. Guy in itchy looking but crisp British Battledress circa 1940

"You have been to Sikhim" ses he.
"Yes", ses I "I have the permit" (Rather pleased to at last need it, I got a Sikhim visa OK from a big barn FULL of literal bales of documents in Darjeeling. Indian admin at its best, but it took rather a long time)

"BUT you are FROM CHINA" ses he, clearly rattled.

Now I dont look Chinese. I dont (to my shame) speak Chinese, and I am neither Chinese nor a Chinese spy, but my passport at that time showed ROC residency in it without mention of Taiwan, and this guy apparently confused Republic of China with Peoples Republic of China. (as does the PRC, and the RYA, for that matter).

Sikhim is a disputed territory to which the PRC makes claim, and thus "sensitive". Snap.

"No, no" ses I "Taiwan, Not BIG China, only LITTLE China" (making the international "tiny pecker" sign with finger and thumb"

"China is NOT little" ses he

I then got pulled from the line, much questioned, and re-searched. They especially didn’t like that I claimed not to have a camera, which I assume they would have confiscated. They also finally noticed my 2 windproof lighters (for camping) so I had to sign multiple forms declaring I was giving them freely to the Government of India to do with as they saw fit.

Meanwhile my "case" got passed up the chain of command, (successively bigger stomachs and hats with blinger and blinger gold braid), and it was looking like I wouldnt get on the plane, when a very big stomach/hat combo said. “Oh TAIWAN. No problem, sir”

Then I got frog marched double time onto the plane by two very large security people. Just before the plane, one of these says, out of the side of his mouth

"Do not look at me. I am going to put something in your right hand. Look straight ahead and put it quickly in your pocket"

So I did (though I did wonder if it could be a trap) and so got my lighters back, despite the paperwork. Thats India.

Much glaring from the cabin staff, though.

Sikhim was nice though there were a lot of leeches. Calcutta not so nice, exploding puppies stylee..
 
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I use the Kitchen long butane / propane lighters for most things .. cooker - wood fires etc ....

But for outside use - such as bonfires and fireworks - I have a mini Propane torch ... amazing little gadget .... looks like a small hand gun with its 90 deg design.

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to give idea of size :

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Hot knife. I should have bought one 30 years sooner. Sealing ropes is nice, but also cutting fabric and webbing, cutting carpet, cutting airflow ribbons, cutting/welding plastic, and sealing bungee cords. Lots of things a lighter can't do.

I keep a BBQ lighter on the boat for multiple reasons, but if I'm replacing lines I bring the hot knife. At home I use it so often it hangs in a holster on the wall, plugged in, next to a metal-topped table.

hot knife

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thinwater said:
Hot knife. I should have bought one 30 years sooner. Sealing ropes is nice, but also cutting fabric and webbing, cutting carpet, cutting airflow ribbons, cutting/welding plastic, and sealing bungee cords. Lots of things a lighter can't do.

I keep a BBQ lighter on the boat for multiple reasons, but if I'm replacing lines I bring the hot knife. At home I use it so often it hangs in a holster on the wall, plugged in, next to a metal-topped table.

hot knife
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I always wanted the Gas powered Hot Knife ..... never seemed to actually get round to buying one ...
 
thinwater said:
A hot knife is typically 100-200 W. The warm-up time is typically ~ 10 seconds or less. If you have any AC power system it is surely enough. And there is always dock power. Gas powered just sounds like more trouble.
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The Gas powered is a great tool ... its not only a Rope Cutter / End sealer - but also a Soldering iron ... heat shrink 'shrinker' .... fire starter ... and requires no batterys / mains electric etc. Just standard Lighter Refill gas.

Example :

https://www.amazon.com/LEXIVON-Mult...8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1

Imagine out there .... and you need to solder .... happened to me ...

A lead broke away from the starter solenoid on my Sunrider 25 ... middle of Baltic ... wind had died and I decided to start engine ... nothing. It was the light load lead from start button. Out came my 12v iron - I never thought it would do the job .. but it held enough to start engine and next port - I had it fixed ...
With a Butane iron - I could have doner same job as the yard guy did later !!
 
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