I don't smoke either. I just like stuff with moving parts, and if there's fire involved, that's a plus. I'm a bit of a firebug, I guess.
I think that's it exactly. We used to do a lot of fireworks in the summer when I was a kid too. I also like the smell of Ronsonal and even wooden matches lighting.
I've got loads of incense I used to burn occasionally of every pleasant smell you can imagine (I love the India Temple incense, for example), but then I read that was likely as bad as breathing 2nd hand cigarette smoke so I rarely light them now (unlit in sufficient quantities smell pretty good too, though).
I first tried black cherry incense as a kid. Fantastic smell. I bought a teepee burner from a Native American shop and later a multi-incense decorated coffin burner. I love that teepee one, though how it looks with smoke coming out the top. I bought a log cabin burner for my mother's house, but she rarely uses it.
Yeah. Some of the very early 6600s & 6700s are like that too. I really dislike the older fuel tanks for the reasons you've stated. I haven't tested them, but I suspect they evaporate real fast - maybe within a week
I guess I'll find out. A couple of my lighters have lasted 6 weeks without a refill (over 3 months for the Ronson Touch Tip lighter I actually use sometimes; I think that one because of how it works could last indefinitely if I applied a rubber seal/gasket system to where the wand sits). I've got two more of those but they're too special to use on a regular basis (Maltese Falcon lighter in mint condition and a WWII wedding gift lighter to someone famous.
I've also got a Dunhill table lighter that was gifted to Lt. "Diz" Dean Laird from his fighter squadron just after WWII. He's famous for being the only ace for both the German and Pacific theaters in WWII and was still alive at 101 the last time I checked (edit: sadly it seems he died on August 10th this month in 2022).
I don't know how his lighter came to be for sale, but I snapped it up a few years ago (seller had no clue of its history so he asked very little and most buyers hate monograms with a passion, which is probably why I also paid a fairly middling price for that mint touch tip wedding gift lighter that looks like it was never used and has a heavy sterling silver bottom added to it signed by co-workers, two of which went on to British Parliament and the owner went on to have his name on a record breaking steam locomotive in his next job).
Anyway, Dean's lighter is cleaned up, has a new wick and packing and it's lighting up again.
