Lighters to collect that were used in movies
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VonMagnum
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Normal for those. Get strong tweezers. I use Revlon. They're great little tweezers. Use a little screwdriver to pull cotton towards fuel lid as you can't reach it. I could do the whole thing in 10-20 minutes, but I've had tons of practice.
Thanks for the walkthrough, I like Revlon too, all their stuff from emeryl files to nail clippers are top grade.
My problem with butane is the
piezoelectric igniter, wheel and flint are still king.
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VonMagnum
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It's hard to say what went wrong without witnessing what you did. It's also possible there's a seam leak or some other exposure that's causing the fluid to evaporate faster. I've also had some spark wheels that simply don't make a good enough spark for anything but a sopping wet wick to catch.
Some people just try to fish a wick into the top opening and leave the packing the way it is. That will certainly lead to short flame results as the wick will only absorb fluid from the very top of the cotton packing. That's why it needs to go all the way through to the bottom.
Of course, you didn't do that, but that leads to another question. How much cotton did you stuff into that lighter? I've been shocked at how much cotton is in a lighter from the factory, particularly in some desktop lighters, like so much you'd never believe in a hundred years that much cotton could fit inside one of those things!
I jam it in there tight with a jeweler's screwdriver! I'd estimate a typical Ronson pocket lighter takes between 2-5 large cotton balls worth, depending on its size (they vary a lot) and something like a Ronson Crown table lighter might take 8-12 (I unroll them and pack them in a bit at a time from the flattened rolls and then use smaller bits when that won't go any farther). A Zippo by comparison probably only will take 1-2 cotton balls. I'm lucky to get a week or two out of them.
If you don't pack it in tight, it won't last long as that's all you have to store the fluid. Otherwise, it'll leak out or evaporate. Sometimes it leaks out big time anyway, but then I'm shocked how long it lasts after it stops.
There are, of course O-ring seals available for the screw caps for fuel and you used to be able to get sealed wicks from Ronson, but not anymore.
Of course, if the lighter insert is very small, it probably won't last too long regardless. Two days is bad, though. I'd expect 4-5 days even from smaller wick lighters (the smallest as 8n tiny might last only a day or two).
I've had a few table lighters light after 6 months or more. My Touch-Tip I used lasted probably two months on a half fill, but it takes a lot of fluid. It nerds a good seal around the wand, though or it'll evaporate fairly quickly.
I've never used Zippo wire wicks, although a couple of lighters had them in already (including new Zippos, of course) so I don't know if that affects it or not. I buy IMCO brand needle wicks off eBay. They have a needle threaded on already to make insertion easier, but can be clipped off if it doesn't fit for some reason. I also have an assortment of different sized cotton wicks from a guy in the UK. In fact, he usually includes a pack as a free extra if I buy a few valves or other parts from him, but he also sells them.
I've had a few lighters that needed smaller or larger wicks and drilled out the Youngstown made Firefly lighter to take an IMCO as it was too small an opening and the smaller wick worked poorly and didn't last more than a couple of days. I'm not sure the wick was wicking up the fluid fast enough to stay lit after that. The larger IMCO wick works great in it, but I did have to drill it out to a larger opening first like I said.
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VonMagnum
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VonMagnum
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Just got notice about the National Public Data breach affecting up to 2.9 billion people with all the information needed to make one's life a living hell.
Yes, that's just the added stress I needed before jury duty and just getting another notice in the mail about that BS medical bill the insurance company already paid that they claimed they had sorted out and my hallucinatory squirrel/squid creatures crawling all over me....
Yes, that's just the added stress I needed before jury duty and just getting another notice in the mail about that BS medical bill the insurance company already paid that they claimed they had sorted out and my hallucinatory squirrel/squid creatures crawling all over me....
drusselmeyer
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Jury duty is far less stressful than being the accused. Consider the bright side, your day could always be worse.
VonMagnum
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I thought the bright side was it could always be better.
This is my 4th jury duty. Many people have zero. It should be random with elimination until everyone gets a turn, not luck of the draw.
The real problem is I'm on afternoons and jury duty is bright and early. With these tactile hallucinations I can't just easily adapt. I don't want to go to jail for contempt because I fall asleep. And you know it's going to be boring as hell. You can't live on $10 a day either. And they wonder why people have contempt.
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It's not luck of the draw. People who don't go eventually stop receiving the summonses. People who do go get summoned as soon as they are eligible again, because the system knows it can count on you!
VonMagnum
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If that were true, I'd have been called 31 times by now. Plus the one year hiatus doesn't apply to different courts (petit vs grand for instance).
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