Over the past year and change, XIKAR has not only been releasing new lighters, but refreshing a handful of existing lighters, one of which is the XIKAR Ultra Mag. The revamped lighter begin shipping to retailers in May 2015 alongside the redesigned XIKAR Allume and delivered a new thumb action grip, a new ignition mechanism, a bigger flame adjustment wheel, revamped air vents and a refreshed fuel window designed to make the fuel level easier to view. It remains a single flame torch lighter packed in a fairly heavy, rectangular body that isn’t terribly thick and feels substantial in the hand. I began using the Ultra Mag combo way back in mid-May, shortly after the updated version was released. As you might know from other lighter reviews I’ve written or Charlie Minato’s tweets, I have a propensity for breaking lighters. It’s certainly not intentional; I’m not in the business of dropping lighters from heights, running them over or disassembling them to see how the insides work and then being unable to get them put back together. Yet for some reason, a significant number of lighters stop working once they get into my hands. Such was the case with the XIKAR Ultra ...
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