I use a Bic in a pinch, but last couple of trips I stashed a half dozen cheap torches throughout my luggage figuring some would get through. Haven't lost a single one so far

I pack my cigar locker in my checked bag and it has 4 torch lighters full of butane and they don't say shiit. And they search that bag every time b/c I always have the TSA search paper notice in it.

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Apparently if you carry them separately, not attached to each other, it's TSA legal. Do your homework and check to be sure though, don't take my word for it. I don't fly and have no idea about TSA technicalities.

Search Amazon for "Eagle torch lighter" 5 pack for $10 ish.

I haven't used anything else for years. Refillable too, but cheap enough that if it quits who cares.

I've had a Ronson Jetline in my carryon bags on four flights BTW.

I've used an electric burner from a stove before in a pinch, but I wouldn't recommend it.

I always pack 3-4 empty Ronson Jetlites in my luggage and a can of butane(I use Power not that cheap schit that ruins lighters) in my shave kit.Looks perfectly normal since I do not use canned shave cream.I cannot remember how many trips in the 15 years I have done this.You'll never find me anywhere without a torch.I wish I had half of the ones back I've left on some bar in Vegas.

1. All illegal narcotics/drugs. (Including Marijuana prescribed for medical purposes and other items used as drug paraphernalia. This includes Hookah Pipes).
2. All firearms including replicas, imitations, non-firing weapons, starting pistols and their components
3. Air, BB or pellet pistols or rifles
4. Any other projectile-weapon or item that resembles or can be mistaken as a firearm (e.g., paint ball guns)
5. All ammunition or replica ammunition for listed line items 2, 3 & 4
6. All explosives, component parts (i.e. detonators) including imitation explosives and devices
7. Fireworks, flares, and pyrotechnics
8. Martial Arts Weapons (i.e. throwing stars, flails)
9. Knives with a blade longer than 4 inches/10.16 cm
10. Open razors
11. Swords, Skean Dhus, or Kirpans
12. Spears or spear guns
13. Crossbows, crossbow bolts, and long bow arrows
14. Blunt weapons including knuckle dusters, brass knuckles, clubs, telescopic batons, batons, flails or nunchaku
15. Items containing incapacitating substances (e.g. gas guns, tear gas sprays, mace, phosphorus, acid and other dangerous chemicals that could be used to maim or disable
16. Restraining Devices (i.e. handcuffs, leg, and head restraining straps)
17. Flammable substances and hazardous chemicals. (e.g., petrol, methylated spirits, paint thinners, lighter fuel, etc.)
18. Any other item made, adapted or intended for use as an offensive weapon
19. Stun devices (i.e. Tazers and Stun Guns)
20. Large batteries
21. Items brought on board the vessel and not supplied by the Company containing any kind of heating element, such as but not limited to: immersion heaters, heating blankets, clothing irons, water heaters, coffee machines with heating/hot plates, etc.
22. Any remotely controlled or autonomously flying devices, toys or drones
23. Self-balancing hover boards, air wheels, scooters, or Segway’s
24. Compressed gas tanks, bottles, cylinders including dive tanks, propane tanks and large aerosol cans
25. Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB), ham radios, satellite phones, transformers, lasers and laser pointers
26. Any form of radio/ telephone signal jamming equipment
27. Samsung Note 7
28. Candles

Had TSA steal a 40 dollar torch once... they took it out of my luggage and said it would be in lost and found.. i was at the same airport a week later and asked for my lighter back but it wasn't in da box... one lady there looked guilty as hell and didn't say a word... she had it I'm sure...

I have mixed feelings about this. Yes, it is a good way to get more life out of a zippo shell, but once you castrate a zippo it is just kind of a shell of its former self...

Had a friend have to give up a sentimental war zippo because he didn't think about just removing the ignition portion... i think it was his father's but i don't remember...you'd think TSA woulda told him that's all they needed...

I knew I wouldn't get it back.. but i gave her look.. she knew i knew...

Oh no. It's like putting turboprop's on a DC-3. That dual jet conversion is every bit, and maybe even better than the Xikar Allume double jet.

I throw a basic zippo (no sentimental value) with a double torch insert in my luggage (in my toiletries bag) - I fly as much as 24 times a year and have had 1 lighter taken by TSA.

I just got back from Vegas and no issues.