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Posted: 10/13/2025 8:41:05 AM EDT
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Simply leave them as is, whether loose or in their packaging? Or is there a right way to store them that's better- in something, sealed up, whatever? I'm talking about keeping them for storage, set aside and not thought about again unless needed. Thanks! |
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I just leave mine on a shelf. If they're gonna leak a little gas, then I'd rather not have it contained in a small area. |
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| A bit of survivalist irony- when we go "camping", I'm usually making a fire with magnesium firestarter for practice, never touching the lighters in the pack. Then some time later rotating batteries stored in the packs, I check the lighters and often times some are no longer working. I'm talking about the disposable ones (Bic type) not the refillable ones. |
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Maybe a good idea, maybe not, I put the package of the 10+ disposables in a zip lock bags and put them in my Emergency Stash totes and Bug out bag. I'll work till it won't. I also keep several of those lil magnesium bars and the sparker deal, as well as small tins with Cotten balls and other "Tinder" for fire starting. Plus, I keep several of those small fire starting blocks, weather proof matches, etc... I will not just keep one Fire Ignition source. I figure if its bad enough that I need to start a fire like that, then I better keep several options at hand. |
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Coleman fuel (white gas) is what I've been using in my zippo lighters, too. The gas stored in the metal cans lasts a long time. We use it, so we just rotate it as we go thru it for our Coleman stoves and lanterns. |
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| Small zip tie around the bottom of the gas release button to keep it from getting accidentally depressed while jumbling around a pack. A strip of duct tape works too. |
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I have a couple bic lighters i got from the Lawson bolt guy. I did business with them from 01-08. I've just kept them in my tool box electrical drawer in the garage toolbox. I just used one the other day to heat some shrink tube. I remember thinking that lighter had to be at least 17 years old. |
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Originally Posted By Maine_11B_to_Nurse: Small zip tie around the bottom of the gas release button to keep it from getting accidentally depressed while jumbling around a pack. A strip of duct tape works too. Otherwise, inside some sort of hard case that keeps the lever from being depressed. Original bubble packs work or Altoids tin or whatever. Even light pressure on the button can make them leak. I use regular lighters rarely, and had only a few fail and almost always in "kicked around in glove compartment" conditions. |
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| I've found that even leaving them in their own sealed bag they come in, I dont have issues with the gas leaking. The problem I see is that after 5yrs or so the flint disintegrates and either crumbles into dust, or crumbles and corrodes and bonds the wheel to the flint spring. I dont have moisture or temp swing issues. Some I've had for +10yrs and some get trashed after only a couple years. Seems hit or miss sometimes |
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Originally Posted By RR_Broccoli: This is the way. Worst comes to worst, you can grind it down with a rock to get it loose. Otherwise, inside some sort of hard case that keeps the lever from being depressed. Original bubble packs work or Altoids tin or whatever. Even light pressure on the button can make them leak. I use regular lighters rarely, and had only a few fail and almost always in "kicked around in glove compartment" conditions. Originally Posted By RR_Broccoli: Originally Posted By Maine_11B_to_Nurse: Small zip tie around the bottom of the gas release button to keep it from getting accidentally depressed while jumbling around a pack. A strip of duct tape works too. Otherwise, inside some sort of hard case that keeps the lever from being depressed. Original bubble packs work or Altoids tin or whatever. Even light pressure on the button can make them leak. I use regular lighters rarely, and had only a few fail and almost always in "kicked around in glove compartment" conditions. |
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I store all my Bics with an o-ring 'round it to keep from accidentally depressing the button. Other than that, I just leave them alone in whatever container/bag/storage pouch I have them stored in. I recently found one that was at the bottom of my EDC backpack. Thought I had lost it a few years ago. Worked perfectly fine still. The o-ring was in good shape still as well. |
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Originally Posted By Mannlicher: there does not seem to be a pattern with those disposable lighters life span. I have pulled them out of a pack, with the lighter years and years old, and they worked just fine. I have had fairly new ones fail. Best to just check them before leaving the house. This has been my experience as well. |
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Before we moved here we lived in an old farmhouse and let visitors smoke in the house. They would occasionally leave a lighter and we would just throw them in a drawer. The lighters got moved here with us in April '98 and some could have been 7 or 8 years old then. I use them now and then to start fires but mainly for heat shrink tubing. I've used some up but I still have three or four and they still work including one logoed Bic lighter the store my wife worked at was giving away in' 94 or '95. I didn't ever find any that didn't work and had leaked out. |
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Originally Posted By Spydermonkey: I've found that even leaving them in their own sealed bag they come in, I dont have issues with the gas leaking. The problem I see is that after 5yrs or so the flint disintegrates and either crumbles into dust, or crumbles and corrodes and bonds the wheel to the flint spring. I dont have moisture or temp swing issues. Some I've had for +10yrs and some get trashed after only a couple years. Seems hit or miss sometimes I have had similar results over the last couple decades. I tried a few different things years ago but what has worked best for me overall is just leaving them in their new factory package and not opening them up until I need them. |
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Originally Posted By WantGrape: I keep them in one of those little plastic ammo type cans. https://i.ibb.co/rKL8mmxX/543556137-122252543456211074-126519061791949414-n.jpg |
| I don't take special precautions. I always carry a Bic and inevitably misplace them and buy a replacement. Eventually the lost ones reappear months or years later and they always seem to still work. The spares go on the shelf with my matches, chem lights and other power loss supplies. |
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I have several lighters in various places in the garage. They all start when I "flick". I saw some rubber hoods some time back that cover the flint and make the lighter watertight. I put them on the lighters in our emergency packs in the autos. I can't remember where I got them, but Amazon has some similar items. All our emergency packs have at least 3 ways to make fire. Lighter, flint & steel, and 2 types of matches (waterproof and strike anywhere wood matches in a WP container. All are stored in a freezer Ziplock baggy with some tinder and small candles. |
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These forever matches last longer https://www.top5-usa.com/endless-match-lighter?targetid=&matchtype=&device=m&campaignid=19519421232&creative=&adgroupid=&feeditemid=&loc_physical_ms=9014666&loc_interest_ms=&network=x&devicemodel=&placement=&keyword=$&target=&aceid=&adposition=&trackid=us_all_top5_1_1&mId=895-263-6903&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19527713458&gbraid=0AAAAAoKwm5Q1rqbNa1zqjqq7WhC0pEbUb&gclid=Cj0KCQiAgP_JBhD-ARIsANpEMxyo931v8puZNmvsOgKasr8IidmRzzaqVp_22APhHPJ027FXYvI93CQaApHhEALw_wcB And can use almost any fuel |
| You don't need to do anything special with them. Just keep them away from water or heavy humidity. I leave mine in a cardboard box and they have been fine. Even some cheapos that I've had for over 20 years still work just fine. |
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