Combat & Survival - Product Review
You've been there - trying to light your stove in a howling gale! Me too, and now I have found an answer. I have had the chance to try out two new lighters. The Turbo flame.....has a longer more powerful laser jet flame. It even works well to light the Trangia stove, where you have to point your flame down into the meths container, not easy with a match on a windy day. (It) has Piezo electric ignition and covers up the important bits when not in use, so looks to be quite sturdy to cope with the rough and tumble of outdoor life. A must have. |  |
Gun Mart - Product Review
The Turboflame GX7's stablemate is the Turbostik Multi Task Lighter which uses the same ignition system to give an identical laser jet flame. It's a whiz at lighting all sorts of stoves (even meths stoves with their windshields in place), BBQ's etc, where you want extra reach. very sleek in design, the Turbostik has an easy to use flame control on the base and a hanging loop. Both the GX7 and the Turbostik are serious fire-lighters that make ordinary lighters look somewhat sad. It is like comparing a blunt penknife to a Leatherman Wave. |
Canoeist - Product Test
If you have ever needed to light a fire/stove/BBQ/pipe in less than ideal weather, ie. wind rain, damp snow, you know, normal British weather, then you will probably have discovered the limitations and frustrations of a normal lighter or matches.
The Turbo flame lighter is more like a mini blowlamp than a normal lighter. It puts forth a flame that is hot, does not blow around and is powerful enough to shoot horizontally. Try that with a normal lighter. If you use it to light your ciggies be very careful. The laser jet flame is stupendous and can cut through nylon rope and plastic sheet like a thermic lance! Cutting and sealing cord has never been easier and the Turbo flame even survives a good dunking. All told, Turboflame is a powerful tool and is a good addition to your repair kit. |  |
Easy Living Magazine - Gift Guide
This precision blow torch is the first household lighter to combine cutting edge technology with contemporary design. So whether he's slaving over the fire in winter or BBQ in summer, he won't be able to use 'the matches are soggy' excuse for his fire-building incompetence. |
Summit - magazine of the British Mountaineering Council
Small enough to pop on your key ring, yet hot enough to solder with, this is ideal for cutting rope, spot heating plastic, canoe patching, and burning your friends arm with. Perfect. |  |
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24 hours ago I came back from an excercise in Yardley Chase during which my Turbo 2 lit hexamine with 100% reliability in wind and rain. It was of course continuosly borrowed amd praised, especially by a 2nd Lieutenant who had let her own one run out of gas. It survived being dropped in mud and total immersion when I fell in a ditch. When I returned home i threw my filthybcombats straight in the wash. I have just found the turbo 2 in the pocket of the jacket and it lit first time having survived a full cycle of washing and spinning. That is robust!
Hugh Mascetti, from Bishop\\\'s Storford, reviewed Turbo2. Our company engineers use Turbo flame outdoor lighters for heat shrinking butt joints when installing the perimeter wiring for Robomower (a robotic lawn mower). It is fantastic to use on windy and wet days and it fits in the pocket so we don\'t have to carry around a cumbersome blow torch. It\'s brilliant and I wouldn\'t want to be without one!
J. Shelmerdine, from Robomower, reviewed Turbo flame GX7. When Im on a mountain and I have to do an emergency repair on my snowboard base, I use my Turbo flame lighter. Unlike conventional windproof lighters, its a clean flame so you dont get carbon deposits in the P-Tex and the flame works at any angle, so it makes it perfect for the job.
Matt, Snowboard Technician, from Southampton, reviewed Turbo flame GX7.
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