Tobacco

Hey, I'm trying to get my brother a nice gunmetal cigar torch for x-mas since i dropped his "old" new one a few weeks ago and scratched it. (I've never seen anyone bitch so bad over a dropped lighter) So can anyone help me out?

Prometheus
Colibri
Vector
KMG
Xikar

2008-12-11 18:54:16 by Laredo P

www.buylighters.com Among the first blue flame Cigar Lighters in the world, the powerful rush of the wind resistant flame made the CG-001 known ...

Butane burns to form carbon dioxide and water - no smell. Matches give off gas from the combustion of phophorus and wood - lots of horrible tastes and smells to ruin the cigar flavour.

2006-12-27 05:18:21 by GolfBug1

My $3 cutter just isn't cutting it anymore (look, I made a pun), I need a decent one that'll cut through any ring gauge.
In a similar vein, my $5 torch lighter works fine, but it looks like a toy and is just too big.
Suggestions and where to purchase, please.

Go to a tobacconist and get a decent double blade cutter - Xikar, Zino and Palio are some good brands. They run about $30, but are top of the line and backed with excellent warrantys

Colibri, Nibo and Tiger are some excellent torch lighter brands that have models that can be found for under $20. Check e-tailers online or eBay

2008-09-26 01:34:03 by Telis Ravenlight

I have 2 rather fancy refillable butane lighters (one is a cigar type torch lighter and the other an "outdoorsy" windproof lighter) neither of which will work when I get above 10,000ft (3050 m). Both work rather reliably at about 7000ft (2134 m) and even better at sea level. I use high quality butane, but neither lighter seems to work at 10K, even if I adjust the amount of fuel the lighter gets. I'm curious of the science that makes it work at low altitude, but not at high altitude.
My thoughts also go to the amount of O2 at that level, but a cheap BIC brand butane lighter works fine (not a torch, but butane none the less). So I would think that being able to adjust the fuel should make that compensation, right?

The obvious first approximation is that since the relative amount of O2 available at 10,000 ft is sufficiently low that the butane gas-oxygen gas ratio is not one that is flammable.

It turns out that for some flammable gases to burn, the ratio of the fuel to O2 must be within a certain range.

Take a look at this article. It may be more info than you need but it goes into detail about this flammability range.

2008-07-26 19:21:53 by brian.gautreau