Can you fuel a zippo with rubbing alcohol

So if you got it lit and then put it out, it would only light again if you waited a little while. The cotton was not absorbing enough fuel to provide a good ignition rate.

The next step was figuring out how to improve the absorption and rate of flow of alcohol so that the ignition rate was more reliable.

This allowed for better flow of alcohol into the wick and better ignition rates. The problem is that drilling out the wick hole broke the arm that keeps the Zippo lid closed. There is no way to go back to using a Zippo wick again once you take your conversion this far. I have used perfume in a Zippo and it works but it evaporates faster than regular lighter fluid.

Yeah all those mods you made were completely pointless and ruined a perfectly good Zippo. It lights up fine. No adjustments made. But just as someone else commented. Finding a way to prevent evaporation would be more the challenge than anything else. Tested on 2 zippos. Lights each time first strike. Search For. While your food is cooking, add alcohol anywhere from a few tablespoons to a cup. Can I use ethanol as a lighter fluid? You could use Butane, which is what regular lighter fluid is, or other more combustible fluids.

It is not dangerous wont explode or anything but smells much worse than the regular lighter fluid and makes quite a bit of black smoke while burning. Soldiers used gasoline because they didnt have lighter fluid on the field. Will definitely work, but expect to have gasoline flavors in whatever you are lighting.

Soak cotton balls in rubbing alcohol and store in a baby food jar or old film canister and place onto dry leaves or twigs to get a fire going quickly. White gas, or naptha, is basically the same as Coleman camp stove and lantern fuel. It will work OK in a Zippo, as it is very close to, if not the same as, lighter fluid. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

How do you waterproof a Zippo? What can be used as lighter fluid? What kind of lighter fluid can I put in a Zippo? Can you use rubbing alcohol in a Zippo lighter? As far as I know, modern Zippo wicks are made of cotton with a bit of copper?

Asbestos is basically illegal in the United States, you'll be fine if yours is less than about 50 years old — which it most likely is. Zippo recommends using Zippo or Rosonol brand lighter fluid. A zippo uses lighter fluid. The butane while it is a liquid in the can will turn to a gas as soon as the pressure is released.

So, the answer is no, you cannot use pressurized butane to refill a normal zippo lighter. The fluid for refilling this lighter is known as the Zippo lighter fluid. The light petroleum distillate or synthetic isoparaffinic hydrocarbon which is commonly referred to as lighter fuel or naphtha is poured into the rayon balls.

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