I'm assuming then that Bic has quite the monopoly in the States, it seems to only be Zippos and Bics I hear about from them.

Weaponsandstuff93 yea, it's sad how underrated clipper lighters are here.

I'm in Virginia and have never seen a Clipper lighter for sale in a store. I get them on eBay. I have started collecting them and now have about 100 clippers to go with my Zippo Collection. Bic's aren't so collectable. All the Bics with designs are just plastic wraps on a white lighter. Bic's are still very good lighters.

Until very recently, the only Clipper lighters I could find locally were disposable. A few days ago I noticed Walmart's carrying refillable Clippers and got one to try. Just googled and found a metal Clipper lighter goes for about $15 in the U.S. Yikes.

We have clippers here in the US, they're just kinda hard to find outside of tobacco shops or head shops. Wal Mart sells disposable Clippers that kinda look like bics, but the profile is more like the shape of a boat as opposed to the sorta rounded football shape of a bic. Most stores usually have bics and those shitty see-thru crack lighters that light one out of every 10 attempts if you're lucky and usually quit working all together after about 10 lights when the fucking striker wheel starts binding up or just flies out for no apparent reason other than they're shitty lighters that are only about 25-50 cents cheaper anyway. Not many people use refillable lighters at all because other than clipper, the ones we have available are pretty shitty, and that's if you can even find one that's refillable that isn't a jet lighter, or a zippo-style one. And then for some reason beyond my comprehension, everybody seems to hate the striker wheel because it isn't round. I've read a lot of complaints about the wheel tearing up people's thumbs, but I've NEVER had that problem. And even if I did, i'd rather refuel and replace flints than buy a new lighter all the time. Most of us Americans just don't seem to generally give a shit about not being wasteful idiots.

Yeah as I said, you can pack a cigarette with it, and other things.

Yeah for the same price you essentially get a multi-tool rather than a throw away single use lighter.

i changed the hex wheel to a rounded from a cheap lighter, now is better than before haha

Yep, I agree. The extras the Clipper has definitely makes it a superior lighter over Bic, I mean, how can you beat a refillable lighter for the same price as one that's not refillable!? and it has a packing tool! Although, mine does not have an adjustable flame?

I was a bic fan so if you want a lighter go for it, but there is a big difference between a lighter and a CLIPPER. :3

clipper wheel wrecks your thumb otherwise love them

Yeah, it seems like an annoyance if it doesn't even do it's intended job.

Yeah it's just making an o-ring, standard stuff.

I use plastic wrap at the bottom of my zippo. It also helps to seal the fuel.

Yeah a lot more cost effective as well.

Same here in Canada. Harder to come by but obviously better. Both are good. Top two cheap lighters.

Going to look now lol.

Yeah a lot of little design improvements.

Cheers

Cheers

Cool

Ur hands 2cm or what?

Yeah, I have no issue with the Bics, they are good enough lighters but I prefer the Clippers due to the similar price.

Fair enough those are good points

It seems odd, the more I talk to people outside of the UK it seems they don't see Clippers often, which is odd considering they are Spanish lighters and have such a big market in the UK.

Weaponsandstuff93 it sure is odd...

i might send you one or two as gifts if the postage is not over expensive :D and I dont guarantee what picture will it have I like the see trough ones but recently I havent seen them and the pictures were not that great (the good ones are sold probably) the last one I got was a solid one with "I love gym" on it

I know it's an old video and etc. Etc. But in my country (Hungary) I saw the Clippers last summer and from then I used Clipper only (I lost one, bought another after a week or so and today I bought another because it was so nice with the rubber case. I don't know that the Clippers were always there or it really appeared about last summer but I see them now in almost every tobacco shop.

technically you can refill a bic, you just need a rubber gromet and a can of butane.

SlasH.. ye this a good reason

+Matthew Stevens They work fine on cheap butane as well which tends to clog other lighters.

Weaponsandstuff93 Yeh theyre awesome, my mate has one with a cool design on it that hes been refilling for ages. He had to replace the spark wheel tho but they sell those on ebay

Yeah I really like Clippers.

a clown I have had the opposite experience. I used bic lighters until I discovered the clipper. I found it to be a more reliable strike.

@@mr-_-steele2434 do you pop the safety off the Bic? I noticed they didn't light every time until I started doing it.

Good points

Yes they don't light very well.

Go on eBay. I bought a set of round striker Flints for my clippers because the hexagon hurt my thumb

It's the standard clipper

The issue with liquid fuel lighter is if you leave them burning long enough, the metal gets so hot that the lighter will explode. But I do agree.

Never burnt my thumb on a bic, and I light one probably 30 times a day for 15 years.

I didn't know about the bottle opener bit.

Yeah, I know it’s far from it’s intended purpose but you can open a beer bottle with a bic. Trying the same technique with a clipper or a cheap convenience store lighter will undoubtedly destroy it. And idk if you saw my other comment but the “cover” on the wheel of the bic is removable and increases the ease of function. I usually use a small key to pop it off.

+Benjamin Kahn Apparently it's a child lock.

the more you know

Yeah considering children shouldn't have lighters in the first place.

Yeah they work well for a cheap lighter.

Weaponsandstuff93 absolutely! Made of stronger material, made with more recyclable material, fairly inexpensive, REFILLABLE, replaceable flint, etc... what's not to like??? I mean I'm no super green tree hugger or anything, but when the more green lighter is still pretty inexpensive then yeah I'm going to go for it. Pretty good quality too. Just an all around good piece of kit!!!

Bic is a French company, and Clipper is Spanish. So pretty much the same. Bic have two factories in the US tho.

I think it's more that Bic seems to have a monopoly everywhere, I've noticed all my friends that smoke rarely seem to entertain the idea of buying a couple of decent refillable lighters and then refilling them. Despite how cheap Butane gas actually is.

Weaponsandstuff93 Thanks.

Except nearly every lighter ever made.

not every , but clipper beats it . amd its more environmental to refill it,not just to think for profit (ahhem iphone :D antirepair engenering)

clippers are usually cheaper or the same price, and you can refill them and replace the flint... Bic sucks, they're just fucking everywhere, so they're easier to find.

This isn't a reupload

I'm planning on doing several lighter and gas mask videos a week.

or just leave it, because if it actually gives you trouble, you have child hands lol

@@d-rockanomaly9243 no take it off because it's unnecessary. If you are stupid enough to let a child get your lighter don't breed fucktard

Yeah I really like the metal Clippers, under £5 a lighter normally.

Yeah, I like both but prefer the Clipper.

Do it! I bought a 2-pack of Clipper lighters (had heard about then recently and decided to check them out) the other day... Within a week I'd given 1 of the 2 away, and bought 4 more 😂 I'm hooked for life I think 😘 have a good day!

Hello Jeff.

Ahh what a classy joke

Yes

As in the lighter has broken or run out, removing the flint to act as an ignition source is quite handy.

Ran out of fluid, bad prep.

Thank you.

Weaponsandstuff93 youre welcome my friend !!!!!

Yeah as a clipper is so similar in price.

Weaponsandstuff93 what is the price in UK?

So far everyone is telling me outside of the UK and Spain Clippers are hard to find, odd.

Achtually clippers can be found at newspaperstands, some lotteries but other than that i haven't seen any

Im in Bulgaria you can find them but most places really sell bic its like a monopoly. I have found a small shop that sells them cheaper than the other stores and I buy when Im there

I'd rate the IMCO petrol lighters over a Zippo, the fuel lasts longer in them, on some models the flame is adjustable and you can also remove it like a candle. I'd say my normal Zippo lasts a week when fueled, the brass Zippo lasts two weeks and the IMCO 6600 Junior lasts 3-4 weeks.

Weaponsandstuff93 Man, those IMCO lighters are nice, and most people don't even know about them. But I have 3 Zippos. One with the original insert, which I use the least, one with a thunderbird gas insert, and one with some torch insert. I use the one with the original insert the least because of the annoying evaporation problem. The gas inserts don't evaporate tho, and they still keep the lighter windproof. The butane is a bit cheaper too

Now if only somebody made a butane insert for an IMCO.

Weaponsandstuff93 Well, I've actually seen something like that for the 6700. But I'm not sure if it's some kind of separate kit to make it have a jet flame, or if it's a jet flame lighter that you can just buy fully functional. I've also seen "IMCO style" butane lighters. BTW, I subbed to your channel. I love lighters, which is why I have so many of them, and I'm gonna buy a metal Clipper lighter as well as a petrol deluxe one. They look awesome, and I wouldn't even know about them had I never seen your videos.

The problem with IMCO now is that IMCO went bust so you get Chinese lighters falsely sold under the IMCO name, it makes getting a genuine well built IMCO a lot harder, but saying that some of the fakes are good enough that if you knew in advance you were getting a fake, and paid less it should still be a good lighter. Thanks for the sub, I'm planning on doing 1 new lighter video each week, most other videos are about gas masks.

Unless you're lighting cigs, they're useless.

I've quit but used to

Thanks.

That seems really odd, it might just be they don't sell them as easily.

well us Americans are picky about literally everything we are also very ignorant so people probably would not trust a clipper if theu did try to sell them in the US

+ratattack63 Seems a shame as they are good value lighters.

Can't argue with the lack of availability. I don't think I've ever seen a Clipper here. However, the fact that you can find Bics anywhere doesn't make them better. Especially considering that if you really wanted a Clipper, you could just buy them online like I buy my Zippos

They're not non-existent, but the only places that usually have them are head shops and tobacco shops. Wal Mart has disposable ones that are more similar to a bic, but you can't refill or replace anything on them. They are a little cheaper than a bic, but nobody I know that gives a shit about what kinda lighter they have trusts anything that's not a bic or a Zippo, probably because the main alternative you usually find is one of those shitty transparent crack lighters with the flame adjuster knob. And anyone who know wtf a clipper even is seems to hate the hex strike wheel. They say it hurts their fingers... I never had a problem.

They're good if you want to buy disposable lighters to leave around, that's about it.

Because they're at least better than shitty no-name transparent crack lighters, and those are usually the two options you find, if you find anything other than a bic at all.

Eric jones hahahahaha they ain’t worthless only you are let’s be realistic here

Bics are not worthless.

Yes

So are Zippos

Ok