Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:30:13 -0800
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Pesky lighters
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This is what I use:
http://picasaweb.google.com/bike2vcu/Lighter
Not industrial strength, it looks like a household or
camping item. I have seen the welding ones mentioned
in various posts and they might be more readily
available. I just happened across this one.
Stephen
--- Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
wrote:
> Butane doesn't work at altitude.
> Period. Or it barely works.
> You do need flame to light mantels, but
> To light a gas stove you only need a spark.
> There 'were' old fashioned long,
> strikers................like welders use to
> light torches......a frication device with the
> little part that wears that
> you replace, but with the wheel at the end of a 10
> inch stalk, with a
> handle. I have one with my 1965 trailer. Period
> authentic for the year. And
> 40 years old and working just fine.
>
> But that's what you want for the gas stove, a long
> striker.
> Frankly, I do not find that there are very reliable,
> easy to use strikers or
> lighters.
> I don' like my finger on the wheel, I like the push
> button kind, for a
> lighter.
> Forget anti-child ones you have to set before trying
> to light them.
> I've gotten long lighters at the dollar store for
> one dollar, but, .....from
> china ...........just junk.
> Last a short while, and its such a shame to land
> fill that stuff.
>
> And............the matches are not what they were
> 10+ years ago. Good wooden
> kitchen matches now.. ..they don't light and burn as
> well as they used to.
> Environmental laws changed them I think.
> I think there's a market even for a good lighter.
> Zippo's just seem messy too.
> Yeah, no good answer. If there is a really high end
> fireplace lighter for
> millionaires, like a well made 30 dollar long
> lighter or striker, I'd buy
> one, if it was reliable and long-liffed.
>
> Oh, the best long strikers are piezo.........no
> friction, no batteries. They
> will last indefinitely and light a gas stove well
> until they just
> mechanically wear out. Those are nice.
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
> we've come so far from rubbing sticks together, but
> you'd think they could
> make a good stove and lantern lighter !!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> John Meeks
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:22 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Pesky lighters
>
> Re: snooted pokeable lighters
>
> 1. Sit on yer Scripto to warm the butane
> 2. Light yer Scripto with a Zippo
> 3. poke away. ;-)
>
> jm
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2008 11:26 AM, Michael Elliott
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay, this barely qualifies as having any Vanagon
> content whatsoever but
> > here goes anyway: Mrs Squirrel and I use
> BBQ/fireplace lighters like the
> > Scripto Aim N Flame* when camping because the long
> snoots are useful for
> > lighting the stove and essential for poking into
> and lighting mantle-type
> > oil lanterns. For most of the year they work just
> fine, but this winter
> > I've been spending the occasional night up at
> 7,000 feet, where the piezo
> > ignitors commonly used on those lighters start not
> working so good, and
> > where the below-freezing temps reduce the pressure
> of the butane or
> > whatever fuel is in them. In short, they click and
> they click and no flame
> > comes out.
> >
> > I could use wooden kitchen matches, but they are a
> bit messy and smell
> > kinda stinky (he said, fastidiously).
> >
> > So I'm curious to know if any of you folk who live
> in the high places and
> > cold weathers have anything which works real good
> and is pokeable (for
> > them lanterns)?
> >
> > ================
> > * I find the statement on Scripto's website
> > (http://www.scriptousa.com/lighters.html) that
> "Whether appearing on a TV
> > show or at your local campfire or barbecue, Aim N
> Flame is instantly
> > recognizable" to be vaguely troubling. They crave
> attention? It never
> > occurred to me that the Aim N Flame might want to
> be recognized. How much
> > more about the secret inner emotional world of the
> Aim N Flame do I not
> > know about? What if we have to start worrying
> about the feelings of all
> > our lighters?
> >
> > --
> > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical
> Banana")
> > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San
> Juan Capistrano
> > KG6RCR
> >
>
>
>
> --
> John Meeks
>
> '91 Multivan, '85 GL bits
> Northern Michigan
> KC8ZFN
>
> Vanagon Rescue Squad
>
http://www.vanagonauts.com/Vanagon_Rescue_Squad74.htm
>
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