You'd think, but there are three problems. Therefore, the question is would you rather take up some floor space buying Bics in bulk, or deal with having to refill and replace gas and flints for your Clipper. Adding the cost of flints, I reckon Bics and Clippers keep neck and neck with each other. Or, you might not know anyone who uses disposable lighters and live somewhere so clean that there's no dead lighters littering the ground and you'd have to buy the flints yourself. If you've got the greatest luck in the world, you may be able to steal flints from dead lighters you find on the street or dead lighters from your friends and never have to spend a penny on flints for the rest of your life. But if you add the cost of flints into it, it could get tricky depending on how you get flints. Just considering fuel, the Bic would eventually lose to the Clipper as buying canisters of butane ends up cheaper per gram than buying a new Bic whenever they run out. Realistically, and I'm only guessing here, I'd expect the Clipper could hold less than that simply because it's shorter.Īssuming you're trying to figure out the cost/performance of buying a bunch of Bics vs buying a single Clipper and refilling it, bear in mind that you have to consider not only the cost of the fuel, but also the cost of the flints. The capacity of a standard (aka "Big") size Model J26 Maxi Bic lighter as stated by Bic themselves is 4.4 grams on the low end to 4.9 on the high end, or an average of 4.65 grams of butane (see this source). But I can give you Bic numbers so that you can do the math yourself about Clipper vs Bic. Keep in mind: You'll always lose some butane to the atmosphere during the refilling process because no seals are 100% tight and some gas can escape.Ībout the fuel capacity of a Clipper, sorry to say that I don't know the answer. If you have a lighter that has a 1.0 gram of fuel capacity, that means that it'll take 1.745 mL of butane to fill. Butane is 0.573g/mL, so just divide the fuel capacity in grams by 0.573 and you'll have the value in mL. If you really insist on having the fuel capacity in mL, you can convert it. You purge the lighter, weigh it when it's totally empty of fuel, fill it, weight it again, and take an average. It's much more accurate if you measure the lighters by weight, as u/Kasper-Hoegs says. This is the reason that we have to inject it from a canister into a lighter with a nozzle rather than pouring it in with a spout like you would with say a Zippo and its lighter fluid. The only reason it looks like a liquid is because it's kept inside of lighters and canisters under high pressure. Even though it looks like a liquid and sounds like a liquid while inside of lighters and inside of fuel canisters, butane is a gas at room temperature. Since this is really two different questions, I'll answer the topic title and the post question separately.įor the topic question "How many mL of butane does the average lighter hold", I'll say that measuring the fuel capacity in mL isn't reliable.
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