hapkidoox t1_ixwl4ah wrote
What ones are you buying and as for why. Its easier and cheaper to make the flick and flint. Add to that it's an old design, everyone and their cousin has used one. It has become something we immediately associate with a lighter. As for the broken flint, never had one break. Nor encountered a wheel that bad. Don't know what brand your buying. But it seems to me that your buying bottom of the barrel.
-WhatCouldGoWrong OP t1_ixwmhwd wrote
yes buying bottom of the barrel, not talking about Zippos here, talking about the £1 a lighter ones
hapkidoox t1_ixwn1sd wrote
Ah. Yea ok live in us so don't know how shit one pound if I am correct. But one pound lighters are. At least over here I have never encountered a cheapo that bad. If you find bics go with them for a cheapo.
DaveyJonesXMR t1_ixwpvnv wrote
Yeah BICs are def the goats for cheapo ( and in my experience the only cheapos that also often function in the wind ) .... anyways glad that i did stop smoking
hapkidoox t1_ixws8lp wrote
Haven't had a sig in a while. Then again I picked them up usually for the fifteen minute break at work. Still prefer a good cigar or a pipe. Though finding navy flake for my pipe round here is all but impossible.
iwannagohome49 t1_ixwqrab wrote
Even with cheap lighters, you get what you pay for. My wife bought me a 75¢ lighter because it looked cool... I got maybe half a days use out of it
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