Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:08:31 -0800
Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Pesky lighters
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Oh -- those things? Tried one last month. It made a clicking sound and
that's all it did. Drove home, it lighted immediately. It's now parked by
the fireplace.
--
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
On 1/20/2008 2:05 PM Nunya Business wrote:
> We used one of these things:
>
> http://www.bernzomatic.com/bernzomatic/consumer/jhtml/detail.jhtml?prodId=BernzoProd100068
>
> which usually works pretty well, but we had the same problem with cold
> weather. As I recall, I wound up lighting the torch with a match and
> then using it normally. I realize that's not a ton of help to ya, but
> whaddya want for nuttin'? : )
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
>
> On 1/20/08, *Michael Elliott* <camping.elliott@gmail.com
> <mailto: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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