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#10346 - 11/01/02 12:57 PM Swissflame!
Trusbx Offline
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Registered: 01/16/02
Posts: 397
Loc: Ed's Country
I checked out the new Swissflame by victorinox just today. From the swissarmy website I thot that it would be a cool tool to have.<br><br><br><br>swissflame<br><br>Much to my disappointment, the lighter itself is not windproof. It is described as a 'laser flame' (which is actually a meaningless term....).<br> The rest of the tools are those which you find on the Victorinox Climber knife. There is also a Camper version which includes a wood saw.<br><br><br>Campflame<br><br>A good idea, but for the kind of cash for the new swissflame, I'd rather have the swisschamp and a few bics anytime......<br><br><br><br>
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#10347 - 11/01/02 07:29 PM Re: Swissflame!
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Registered: 08/22/01
Posts: 924
Loc: St. John's, Newfoundland
I must say, I'm rather disappointed. I wrote to Victorinox last year, suggesting that they replace the metal toothpick with a flint that could be used to start a fire; their response was that it had been considered but management had decided it wouldn't be cost effective.<br><br>Seems to me that the "swissflame" is much more complex, expensive, and liable to failure than a small stick of ferrocerium would be. (Of course, the ferrocerrium would be kind of brittle, and people are always losing those toothpicks, so maybe that's why Victorinox are world-renowned and I'm not :-)
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