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  1. Lidl have some windproof lighters for £1.49. Has anyone bought one?
    Do they in any way resemble the lighters which the Survival Shop used
    to sell, which were claimed were hot enough to weld with?
    These ones are stainless stell, but look a bit flimsy.

  2. "John Hearns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Lidl have some windproof lighters for £1.49. Has anyone bought one?
    Do they in any way resemble the lighters which the Survival Shop used
    to sell, which were claimed were hot enough to weld with?
    These ones are stainless stell, but look a bit flimsy.

    Maplins sell a thing that holds a lighter and acts as a nozzle for it.
    They've got piezo ignition and you can cut a beer can in half with one...

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    "John Hearns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Lidl have some windproof lighters for £1.49. Has anyone bought one?
    Do they in any way resemble the lighters which the Survival Shop used
    to sell, which were claimed were hot enough to weld with?
    These ones are stainless stell, but look a bit flimsy.

    Maplins sell a thing that holds a lighter and acts as a nozzle for it.
    They've got piezo ignition and you can cut a beer can in half with one...

    FZ99H on the Maplin site BTW.

  4. John Hearns said:

    Lidl have some windproof lighters for £1.49. Has anyone bought one?
    Do they in any way resemble the lighters which the Survival Shop used
    to sell, which were claimed were hot enough to weld with?

    Hot enough to weld what?

    --
    Wally
    www.artbywally.com
    www.wally.myby.co.uk

  5. John Hearns said:

    Lidl have some windproof lighters for £1.49. Has anyone bought one?
    Do they in any way resemble the lighters which the Survival Shop used
    to sell, which were claimed were hot enough to weld with?

    Hot enough to weld what?

    --
    Wally
    www.artbywally.com
    www.wally.myby.co.uk

  6. John Hearns said:

    Lidl have some windproof lighters for £1.49.

    Do you mean

    <http://www.lidl.co.uk/gb/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20051205.p.Windproof_Lighter_>

    which claims they are 4.99

    Quoted message said:

    Has anyone bought one? Do they in any way resemble the lighters
    which the Survival Shop used to sell, which were claimed were hot
    enough to weld with? These ones are stainless stell, but look a bit
    flimsy.

    I've got a Turboflame <http://www.turbolighters.com/>, advertised for
    5.95

    Not as good as one might hope. Tried to use one on bonfire
    night. Windproof, yes, but damp just doesn't agree with it. Probably
    shorts out the piezo spark. I'd go for the Turboflame, rather than the
    Lidl no-name one. At least it *feels* like a decent, well engineered
    bit of kit.

    --
    Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/
    "Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
    but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
    -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  7. Alan J. Wylie said:
    John Hearns said:

    Lidl have some windproof lighters for £1.49.

    Do you mean

    <http://www.lidl.co.uk/gb/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20051205.p.Windproof_Lighter_>

    which claims they are 4.99


    No, these were just cheap ones at the checkout. Not the turbo powered ones
    I ws thinking of, such as the 4.9 ones.
    Thanks for the information, saved me a few pennies there.

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