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Post by kxg on Oct 1, 2018 22:19:54 GMT -5
Years ago, in a former life, I worked at a natural gas processing plant. Three of our main products were propane, normal butane, and isobutane. We all filled our propane cylinders right off depropanizer tower; good stuff. One ofthe foremen, who was a pipe smoker, rigged a device ro refill his butane can from the debutanizer tower. At that time,I thought he was just too cheap to buy butane, but looking back, it was probably better than you could buy.
One big difference in the quality of different butanes is the source for the hydrocarbon stream. If it is crude oil, there are a lot more contaminants, if it is natural gas, the source stream is cleaner from the start.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2018 22:38:06 GMT -5
I've been using over the years, Colibri' Premium 1928, Pure 99.999% in both of my lighters; IM Corona Big Boy (pipes) and Blazer PB-207 Torch (cigars). Been burning great in both lighters to date...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2018 22:52:55 GMT -5
Big +1^^^^^^^^^👍
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Post by trailboss on Oct 1, 2018 23:46:51 GMT -5
Bernzomatic and Zippo butane for the Harbor freight torches that are used for sweating copper, and shrink wrapping wires.
Colibri 1928 for a nice lighter.
What I would burn in the ranch truck, I would be more hesitant to use in the Viper.
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Post by dave g on Oct 1, 2018 23:49:37 GMT -5
I use Xikar. It seems to last longer than other stuff.
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Post by just ol ed on Oct 1, 2018 23:57:55 GMT -5
adding my Xikar to the above. No issues with my OldBoy or an older Zippo Japanese made soft flame that hasent' been in their site for many years. Inside....mostly paper matches
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 2, 2018 5:24:35 GMT -5
Years ago, in a former life, I worked at a natural gas processing plant. Three of our main products were propane, normal butane, and isobutane. We all filled our propane cylinders right off depropanizer tower; good stuff. One ofthe foremen, who was a pipe smoker, rigged a device ro refill his butane can from the debutanizer tower. At that time,I thought he was just too cheap to buy butane, but looking back, it was probably better than you could buy. One big difference in the quality of different butanes is the source for the hydrocarbon stream. If it is crude oil, there are a lot more contaminants, if it is natural gas, the source stream is cleaner from the start. That makes a lot of sense. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 2, 2018 6:55:57 GMT -5
 As KX said in my former life I built and ran Ethylene plants for Exxon. Refined only means knocking out heavies in the stream, heavyies are what you would call crap, making the product purer, Nat gas is cleaner. Now the maker saying it’s been refined 11 times is really is a joke, you can refine only the bad stuff, refining any more doesn’t make it better. Example a certain Oil company touted their gas ran thru Platformate and was better, fact every refinery ran it through Platformate. Just guilding the lily.
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Post by kxg on Oct 2, 2018 10:06:24 GMT -5
As KX said in my former life I built and ran Ethylene plants for Exxon. Refined only means knocking out heavies in the stream, heavyies are what you would call crap, making the product purer, Nat gas is cleaner. Now the maker saying it’s been refined 11 times is really is a joke, you can refine only the bad stuff, refining any more doesn’t make it better. Example a certain Oil company touted their gas ran thru Platformate and was better, fact every refinery ran it through Platformate. Just guilding the lily. All true Cajun. Using the marketing logic and lingo, I guess our n-butane would have been "refined" 5 times. Once in the absorber (it was lean oil process plant - Amoco), once in the still, once in the deethanizer, once in the depropanizer, and once in the debutanizer. The isobutane was "refined" one more time in the, you guessed it, deisobutanizer. If I had used refillable butane lighters back then, I would have probably gone with the iso-butane, not because it was "refined" one more time, but because it has a higher vapor pressure than n-butane and would be better in cold weather. But that was many years ago and that old plant is now only a memory as it was taken down a number of years ago. Besides, it can be kind of exciting filling a tiny butane can from the reflux drum of a ~80' processing tower! |
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As KX said in my former life I built and ran Ethylene plants for Exxon. Refined only means knocking out heavies in the stream, heavyies are what you would call crap, making the product purer, Nat gas is cleaner. Now the maker saying it’s been refined 11 times is really is a joke, you can refine only the bad stuff, refining any more doesn’t make it better. Example a certain Oil company touted their gas ran thru Platformate and was better, fact every refinery ran it through Platformate. Just guilding the lily. 