Zippo Pipe Lighters...Opinions Please!

[bersekero]

I did find some info on the web showing how to seal a Zippo with those bands or a piece of a bicycle inner tube and looks like a chore to have to pull down the rubber to open the cap and then push it back after closing the cap to seal it. If one does lots of relights it doesn't look very practical.

 

[Pipeandapencil]

Love my zippo. Love the smell of the fluid, lets me know it's pipe time! Plus there is nothing like that metalic flink noise when you open it. I used to hate relights until I got a zippo. My desire to tinker with it and refill always comes to me before actual need to refill so I dont mind the short life.

 

[bersekero]

I never understood why, in so many movies, they throw the Zippo to light a fire from a distance instead of just lighting the fire and then putting it back in their pocket to take it with them.

 

[zercules]

I did find some info on the web showing how to seal a Zippo with those bands or a piece of a bicycle inner tube and looks like a chore to have to pull down the rubber to open the cap and then push it back after closing the cap to seal it. If one does lots of relights it doesn't look very practical.

I leave it off while I’m smoking. It goes back on before I dump the dottle out my pipe. But yeah, it just goes around the seam where the lighter opens. It’s very easy to stretch on and off with the ranger bands.

 

[bersekero]

Well the AliExpress old boy wannabe lasted a few days. Total junk. Stay away.10 euros plus 6 for shipping and I got what I paid for. I know other members had a better experience.
So back to the pipe Zippo and Bic ez. And to the cheap kitchen matches of course.

I fixed the lighter. The tiny screw which holds the striking wheel was loose. Easy fix but still this shouldn't happen at a new lighter.
Maybe loctite will fix it permanently.

 

[Morbius]

Only issue is evaporation. But I’ve found that 1.5” x 0.5” rubber bands (ranger/skog bands, can buy on Amazon) makes fuel last 3x longer. They also don’t look tacky wrapped on the lighter and easy enough to remove and stretch back on. This is the only thing that will work to slow down evaporation in a zippo, and I’m surprised barely anybody talks about it.
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I only use my Zippo Pipe Lighter on windy days when I can't use matches or hemp wick. The evaporation was a real pain in the rump because I was only getting ten lights per week on a tank of gas due to using it so seldom. I saw this idea and ordered it from Amazon, and I'm on week three and going strong. THANK YOU for the tip.

 

[zercules]

I only use my Zippo Pipe Lighter on windy days when I can't use matches or hemp wick. The evaporation was a real pain in the rump because I was only getting ten lights per week on a tank of gas due to using it so seldom. I saw this idea and ordered it from Amazon, and I'm on week three and going strong. THANK YOU for the tip.

Happy to have helped 🫡

 

[lizardblu]

Why sometimes with pipe insert, flame goes easily down the bowl, and sometimes not? Thanks who will help

 

[tartanphantom]

1.5 years late to this thread, but I'm a die-hard Zippo lover. I have several with the pipe chimney insert, and they are my go-to for pipe smoking, since I'm mainly an outdoor smoker.

 

[instymp]

I fixed the lighter. The tiny screw which holds the striking wheel was loose. Easy fix but still this shouldn't happen at a new lighter.
Maybe loctite will fix it permanently.

No need to.
Send it back & they will fix/replace for free.
Thats why people buy Zippos. They stand behind their product for life.

 

[zercules]

Why sometimes with pipe insert, flame goes easily down the bowl, and sometimes not? Thanks who will help

Your pipe is either packed too loose or too tight. That’s what I suspect at least.

 

[Smokeybandit]

I love zippos and have used them for over 30 years.

This is my favorite in the collection, kinda looks like an abstract flame.

What do you see.....

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

 

[Briarcutter]

I'll plead Bambi