Lighters to collect that were used in movies

It's just really difficult to watch a movie or even listen to music when something is crawling up your leg near your giblets! It's beyond distracting. So I've lost interest in movies and almost everything else in life.

I haven't gotten a single helpful bit out of a doctor yet, let alone why it's happening. It destroyed any faith in anything higher I may have had since I get no response there either.

I think I'm pretty much ready to take a dirt nap.
 
You still have resources, and people who care about you. I can’t do much more than pray and offer a sympathetic ear, but it’s not over yet, not by a long shot. Please no more thinking of dirt naps.
I don’t know your name or where you hail from, but I’m concerned about you. Call 988 and talk to somebody please.
 
I don't mean I'm going to off myself. I mean simply don't care anymore about trying to find a happy life on this planet. It's not going to happen. But if that tornado had killed me, I wouldn't have exactly cared either. Earth sucks and so do the idiot doctors on it and the people running it. Look at the news to see what I mean.

Bad and worse are your choices in life. If you don't worship money and owning things, this place is a crap hole anyway. No meaning, fairness, or purpose to life. No justice. Just jackholes trying to steal your stuff with constant internet scams and more, often targeting the senile older population who don't understand technology.

It's sick. I had to block all calls not from known numbers to my mom's house because she was averaging 12 calls a day from "charities" trying to get her money. She had a stroke a couple of years ago and she's not so sharp anymore.

But that's better than my dad who died during Covid, but not from Covid but because his experience was so bad in the hospital (they were all terrified they would catch Covid so they avoided proper care. I know as his wife was a nurse) that he didn't want to get surgery and have to stay there for weeks on end. So they gave him hospice care and he just waited and he had a heart attack and died. No one did a thing to stop it.

I then had to the deal with my mom in the hospital the following year (stroked twice) while they were still enforcing insane limits on visits, etc because of rampant paranoia over Covid over two years in, long after it ceased to be a huge threat! Pure misery.

Now I've got this weird crap to deal with myself while taking care of her while my brother runs off for a 3 week vacation to Alaska and Canada. I haven't been on a proper vacation in 7 years and he's whining he needs to get away when he's averaging 4 trips a year. He just ran down to King's Island two weeks earlier. He hadn't been there in 18 years he complained! Yeah, well I haven't been there in 26 years and he's almost 5 years older than me.

I'm sorry, but life just sucks. It's probably chronic stress causing it. That seems the most likely to me. Ai agrees.

I suppose I should be glad these entities hug me. That's about as close as I get to love these days. My mom says she cares, but she's lucky to remember her own name anymore.

Nevermind. I shouldn't be whining. It could be a lot worse. I've got money and a home and food. That's more than many have. Then there's the lighter collection, of course.
 
VonMagnum I’m glad I misunderstood, and I do really sympathize with your stressful situation. It’s trite of me to say, but times seem tough all over these days, and I’ve been hearing it around more and more. You and I are better off than most of the world, we have a lot to be greatfull about, but that doesn’t mean we can’t whine about our problems. You go ahead and vent brother, I’ll keep reading along and chiming in if I have anything helpful to add. I wish I had more than platitudes to give you, but it’s from the heart man, we’re soo comparatively lucky.
 
OK this is where I draw the line! Stay out of my lighter collection you darn space squirrels!

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Nope. I've spent over $1200 and spent 3 months on this and I'm back to zero. No comment from my doctor after those visits. The neurosurgeon suggested a neurologist (I thought he was a subset, but apparently doesn't want to deal with it and said that lesion shouldn't cause hallucination anyway). I'm thinking psychiatrist, but I had a bad experience with one before. Either way, I'd have to get another recommendation and my regular doctor is an idiot and now I've got jur duty coming up....Life sucks and then you get accosted by space squirrels....
 
Call the Bishop, you’ve got demons son.
But seriously, if you’ve got problems with shrinks and found no comfort from your church, maybe it’s time to try another denomination or look for a local support group. Maybe there are online forums dedicated to dealing with similar health problems?
I’m still praying for you brother.
 
Got a water company notice that they want to inspect my lines for lead. 4 hour window that I'm supposed to sit there waiting for them like the cable company. Every house in the neighborhood should be the same. Nope state says they gotta do it.... They gotta wait until jury duty is over.....

Got $880 bill from the doctor's office saying insurance never paid it from June 6th so I should pay it. Insurance company is closed all weekend, but automated lookup said I owe $13. I know two other people having similar BS bills. One said it took 6 months of back and forth to clear up (different insurance, same local health system).

Crazy things breaking at work nonstop for two days now. Back and shoulder hurts from laying on hard floor for hours. It's the Curse of the Space Squirrels... I think they probably look more like this....

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I have a lighter question. The Dog figure lighter I posted a while back has a knockoff Ronson lighter that leaks by evaporation, only staying potent enough to light for 2 days of occasional use. Any tips for disassembly, and fixing the issue? I guess a new fuel cap gasket and maybe change the wadding and wick? Any tips would be useful.

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Is two days all I should expect from this kind of lighter, or can we do better, like four or five?
 
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I get 2-5 weeks from pocket lighters. I get 6 weeks to 6 months for some desk wick lighters.

The packing and wick are almost certainly in need of replacement. The extra seals will get you closer to the longer side of things, but two days indicates bad wick and/or packing. To do it right, both should be changed anyway.
 
I get 2-5 weeks from pocket lighters. I get 6 weeks to 6 months for some desk wick lighters.

The packing and wick are almost certainly in need of replacement. The extra seals will get you closer to the longer side of things, but two days indicates bad wick and/or packing. To do it right, both should be changed anyway.
Thanks for the advice. It was a gift, and looks like it hasn’t had an overhaul in a while, but strikes flint like a champ. I converted all my sentimental value Zippos to butane inserts long ago, this is my only wick lighter other than a few camping gadgets.
 
I hate butane. You're reliant on parts you may or may not be able to get. I have no smaller adjustment rings for the larger to smaller valve conversions I bought for Ronson as the larger older valves are no longer available.

Wicks are simple. Pulling out cotton is a pain on desk lighters, but not too bad on pocket lighters. Fish a wick down from the top and pull it out with tweezers (harder on some models than others. I but IMCO wicks with needles attached to make it much easier) and pull it out the fuel valve hole. Start stuffing little cotton strands (I unravel cotton balls or use the stuff from pill bottles) and start feeding it in, pushing the wick in a little as you go and fold it back on itself or cut some off.
 
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