have you seen the zippo hand warmer, catalyst thing, we were puzzling over how it works, is there a flame? http://www.zippo.com/products/handwarmer.aspx?bhcp=1 does the bag just throttle the oxygen? I want a petrol mobile phone, awesome energy density compared to battery
Aye, I've two of them - it's a wee catalyst grille mesh at the top that glows, you can use it out of the bag as well. Same sort of mesh you see in gas soldering irons.
There's a flame when you first light it, you blow that out and the thing just glows from behind it's protective grille. I think the soldering irons use fibreglass with a platinum coating as the catalyst? The only problem is, they burn for about 10 hours on a fill and there is no way of extinguishing them! You just have to leave them to burn out on a safe surface. Many's the night I've sat with my feet up at TSC island with 2 of the warmers down my socks, or dropped them down the side of my wellies before going for a walk in the winter!
Doing some rough(very) calcs, your looking at about 5tons to draw brass to that die. Just incase you ever are thinking about it...
Brilliant! E-mail me the price, I might have to sell mine.[:^(] As. I've just found some more VWMS stuff!
Have you read right to the bottom of this post? http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2087752&postcount=1
Brian. Next time we meet I'll bring this along: Every other page has example of Zippos returned for repair!
That's Zippo's best marketing tool - the free repair. They could improve the horribly shoddy hinge and probably never get any back for repair - but instead they can build them with a terrible piece of design holding the top on, and give a lifetime guarantee no matter what you do to it. Lifetime lighter! And I bet about 1% of buyers get round to sending them back for repair once they break, because they can make them cheaply enough that people just buy another one!
