things that can go wrong with lighters

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I have a very dim grasp of how lighters "work" outside of the obvious. by which i mean, what precisely is the mechanism whereby the flint wheel just won't fucking turn? also, how is it that there's no way to keep them from getting lint in yr pocket (outside of a zippo with a lid, but this thread is about disposables) and other annoyances both large and small.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 3 October 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

It's a fucking $1.50; it's not like your iPod doesn't work!

― orgone accumulator (ex machina), Monday, 3 October 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

I would buy a Zippo iPod.

― a picture of a fat girl hugging Rick Perry, awesome (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 3 October 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

dude but if its a weird hour and you don't want to buy another and etc. then it still fucking sucks. and you want to fix it but you don't know how to -- that's the worst. bic oval ones are pretty reliable. its the ones with the cheapo snapon rectangular metal tops you have to watch out for.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 3 October 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

What I want to know is, how is it that no matter how many lighters I buy, I never seem to have any?

(seriously - its as if my lad eats them or something. I ask where all the lighters are and suddenly he has half a dozen in one pocket. Argh)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 3 October 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

its a good question! but the jamming only happens to me after ive been idly rolling the wheel backwards anyway. i've seen it impressively broken apart and fixed but i cd never be bothered to learn

other annoyances escape me, except for maybe sometimes buying a new one (and, crucially, seeing it untested) and not realising it's been left set at full 2-foot blast

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

It's probably because the flint's completely worn away and the wheel's catching on the spring. If you've got a Clipper/Cricket, buy a new flint*, if you haven't then buy a new lighter.

*probably best to buy a new lighter anyway, I never seem to keep them foe long enough to refill.

― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

The child proof lock gagdet breaks somehow and then it can't be used! Hate those child proff things anyway BAH!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

http://worldfms.com/images/camping/4038am.jpg

Way cooler than a lighter. "Strike anywhere": teeth, zipper...

One time in Santa Marta, Colombia my husband went to light a cigarette and his lighter exploded. All the Israeli tourists in the room immediately dove under tables while the rest of us blinked around stupidly at the *bang!*

― Thea (Thea), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

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― yuengling participle (rotten03), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Even though I don't smoke anymore, I always have a lighter. I just like them. I suppose it could be because I have a God-complex and it makes me feel just the tiniest bit like "LOOK, PUNY HUMANS - I HAVE CREATED FIRE!", but I prefer to think of it as something less... insane.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Also the most wrong thing that can happen to a lighter is when the wheel jams and you can't fuck! fuck you! fucking piece of shit goddamn craphead lighter! make it work

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

i prefer the cheapo ones to bics. you can screw with em to make the flame bigger - the bic's die a slow gradual death where the flame just shrinks to oblivion. plus this cigarette shop across the NH border gives em away free if you buy more than 2 packs of cigs at a time.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

We did that to a friend at school once - messed with her lighter so the flame would be HUGE.

Which it was. It went WHOOOOSH in her face. Of course, this was 1987 so her big back-combed Robert Smith hairdo, full of hairspray, went WHOOOOSH also, didn't it? Suddenly she had no fringe.

Tee hee, evil sod teenagers.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

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― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

ouch

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

I can't get the hang of opening beer bottles with a lighter. I have solved that small issue by attaching a bottle opener as a key ring for my house key.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

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