Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:01:59 -0800
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Pesky lighters
In-Reply-To: <4793764E.2020301@gmail.com>
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I found something at a yard sale that is very handy
for the stove. It's an old camping accessory from
Colghan's that is basically a sparking flint device
--no fuel at all--that is long-snouted like the
lighter you mentioned (and which we also use). The
sparking tool is ideal for lighting a gas device but
maybe not so much a fire or charcoal grille.
Stephen
--- 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
>
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