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This is not a conversation about guns. This is a conversation about items that have withstood abuse that are near unbreakable.

Some items I have heard referenced as AK47 of:

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you use it often, sure. If you don’t smoke and just occasionally need to light fires, get a butane conversion. It’s a replacement for the wick, which pops into the Zippo shell. It doesn’t evaporate over time since it’s sealed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Electric insert too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never understood these. Old fluid, stink, durable but for a lighter I just don't get the price and love. Non smoker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I put the electric insert in one of mine, charged it in 2021... still works!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Now the electrics are good. I'm a believer there. Just not the old school kind as much when lighters are so abundant. Only issue with electric is the flame is often needed for other non smoking purposes and electrics have no flame.