Alternatives to Flints for O/A & O/LPG?

[allenr]

What do all you guys use to light O/A equipment.

I've never got on all that well using flints, the spark isn't reliable and the flints break or fall out, the wire handle bends.

On rare occasions the flint wears out!

What else is there that is long lived, reliable and doesn't need consumables?

 

[polo1665]

This may be the ticket.
Kimball Midwest: Product Catalog
May be worth a try.

 

[Stimw]

Buy one of those butane barbeque lighters with the electric spark ignition. Under $5. When the butane runs out you still have the spark.

 

[J0be269]

I have never really had a problem with the flints. I always just hit the torch tip with the handle of the striker that has the flint on it.

On those occasions when I have lost the striker (usually in my back pocket) I use a cigarette lighter. You have to turn the gas down very very low and be very careful with that though.

 

[JB4310]

I've never had a problem with the standard striker either, but recently found a trigger pull striker, a little more consistent spark.

 

[bobodu]

Since I was a Boy Scout,I keep a Zippo in each front pants pocket. Don't ever seem to recall being able to find my striker for two consecutive lights.....

 

[2manyrocks]

Butane lighters have been known to blow up when used for lighting propane torches. When I found this out, I went back to the striker.

 

[tommu56]

plastic butane lighters can explode when hot material hits the plastic and it melts letting gas out most welding places ban them.

tom

 

[allenr]

Thanks for your opinions gentlemen.

I'll see if I can find the piezo lighter as sold by Kimball - in Australia.

I have used a piezo that was intended for gas ranges in the past, but it too expired.

As I love looking at other's photos, I thought it only fair to show the flint and piezo from my workshop.

 

[bigdad]

Ahhh...... brings back memories of my smoking days and over filling the old Zippo and having the square "fluid burn" on my leg. What a fine American made device, great for an outdoor guy.
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I get replacment flints for my striker. Had that old dude for years.

Since I was a Boy Scout,I keep a Zippo in each front pants pocket. Don't ever seem to recall being able to find my striker for two consecutive lights.....