Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:23:41 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Pesky lighters
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Maybe one of those old-school welder igniters with a flint on a spring
handle... you squeeze it and get lots of sparks.
Jim
On Jan 20, 2008 1:01 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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