Clipper Panda Warriors Lighter, Soft Flame

How many lighters have you thrown away because the gas ran out while the rest still worked? With a Clipper lighter you refill the gas and replace the flint instead. This one is from the Panda Warriors series, with armed cartoon pandas printed on the round body.

The four Panda Warriors designs

The series has four motifs. Sellers who list them separately name a panda with a gun, a panda with blades, a parachute panda and a gas mask panda. This page is for one lighter from the series, not for a particular panda.

How a Clipper lighter differs from a disposable

• Refillable: the valve sits in the base. Turn the lighter upside down and press a can of butane, such as Clipper Refill Gas, into it.
• Replaceable flint: pull the flint pin out of the top and fit a new flint when the old one is worn down.
• Soft flame: an ordinary flame with a fixed height, so there is nothing to adjust. It is not a jet flame and wind will blow it out.
• Nylon body: Clipper describes it as unbreakable and fire-resistant, made with a high share of recycled material and fitted with a child lock.

The flint pin and the tilted flame

The removable pin exists for changing the flint, but it is widely used for something else: pressing down the filling of a hand-rolled cone. Tilt the lighter sideways and downwards and you get what Clipper calls a tilt flame, which pipe users like. Clipper says this works best when the lighter is at pocket temperature. The round body also fits the neck of a beer bottle and keeps wasps out of your drink.

What owners say after long use

One forum member recalls an older Clipper that ran for nearly ten years and finds that recent ones spark poorly after some months. The fixes owners pass on are simple: turn the flint round, fit a fresh one, or clean grease and dirt off the spark wheel. One reviewer finds the hexagonal wheel rough on the fingers. If you want a lighter that needs no attention at all, a disposable may suit you better.

Where Clipper comes from

Flamagas, the company behind Clipper, was founded in Barcelona in 1959. Enric Sardà designed the round lighter, and production started in the early 1970s. The brand presents it as the first refillable lighter in the world.

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