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POLL: How do lighters usually fail for you?

What, in your experience, is the most common failure mode of cigarette lighters?

  • Gas runs out

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • Flint runs out

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • Gas trigger softens / breaks

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • Striker wheel disintegrates

    Votes: 1 4.2%

  • Batteries in built-in flashlight die, lighter still works

    Votes: 1 4.2%

  • Still worked when I lost it

    Votes: 5 20.8%

  • I don't even smoke, you insensitive clod!

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Total voters
    24
  • Poll closed .
Don Luigi said:
I thought that an observant, curious fellow, such as yourself, would have noticed that before.
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Nope. Life is full of these obscure things that we don't pay attention to or get told about by someone. I love it when I learn something like this! And often wonder why/how I've been so un-curious to not notice them before.

Captain Oblivious signing off.

And SHM, hang yer head in shame at that miserable attempt at a pun. :p ;)
 
Depends what I'm doing, if just lighting cigarettes it's often the flint or the wheel before the gas.
But after spending a few days chasing the dragon I went through 14 disposable lighters purely through using the gas.

Took me 2 days to figure out a candle would be MUCH cheaper, and save me getting the dreaded "crackhead thumb".
 
SproutOnSmack said:
after spending a few days chasing the dragon I went through 14 disposable lighters purely through using the gas.
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Interesting. Do you like a big flame, by any chance? My experience of disposable lighters has been that the two little forks attached to the gas trigger and which lift the nozzle to open the gas valve either become brittle and snap, or soften and bend, long before the liquid is exhausted. It depends on the particular batch of plastic used, I guess; but either way, the result is, no more gas is coming out of that lighter.

And oh! how short was the journey from Breathe when you see it start to smoke, try and suck as much of it as possible up the tube and raise your finger when you've had enough to scoring, and learning to deftly manipulate the lighter and the foil with only two hands, for myself .....

I have found that the absolute best thing for chasing the beetle round the tinfoil garden is a spirit lamp. Methylated spirits burns with an almost soot-free flame, hence no messy black fingerprints on everything. Though, it does mean that you have to do everything the other way around -- I usually hold the foil with my left hand and the lighter with my right, but with the spirit lamp I hold the foil in my right hand.
 
BecomingJulie said:
Interesting. Do you like a big flame, by any chance? My experience of disposable lighters has been that the two little forks attached to the gas trigger and which lift the nozzle to open the gas valve either become brittle and snap, or soften and bend, long before the liquid is exhausted. It depends on the particular batch of plastic used, I guess; but either way, the result is, no more gas is coming out of that lighter.

And oh! how short was the journey from Breathe when you see it start to smoke, try and suck as much of it as possible up the tube and raise your finger when you've had enough to scoring, and learning to deftly manipulate the lighter and the foil with only two hands, for myself .....

I have found that the absolute best thing for chasing the beetle round the tinfoil garden is a spirit lamp. Methylated spirits burns with an almost soot-free flame, hence no messy black fingerprints on everything. Though, it does mean that you have to do everything the other way around -- I usually hold the foil with my left hand and the lighter with my right, but with the spirit lamp I hold the foil in my right hand.
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I use a moderate sized flame, not too big so as to not frazzle the goodies, big enough that I can tilt the lighter and spread the heat directionally rather than directly upwards over a small surface area.
Erm, I was never, ever taught how to chase by another person, never watched a video or even read a guide, I just used common sense. It took 3 attempts to go from complete combustion to running it so perfectly the beetle fell off the foil and the boiling liquid burned my hand to making dragon chasing origami... It is perhaps my proudest and most shameful skills tbh!
I manipulate the foil to have a handle, a deep indent to store the rest of the powder, thickly fold the outer edges to "wall in" the gear, and make 8 or so folds to run the gear down, all of which converge at the lateral end of the foil, so each line can be chased until there is one massive beetle convergance. Said 8 line splodge is then re-heated and chased back up those 8 lines individually, ad infinitum, or until I run out of gear.

It's a good job using H and learning to chase properly never coincided tbh...

I get wayyyy to into chasing, to the point it has become a hobby of its own
 
I don't even know what happens to mine.

Did have one set on fire when I was smoking buckets with a couple blers, everyone was hell of stoned and just sort of sat staring at it burning on the floor til someone had the presence of mind to throw it out the window. Realise now that it could just have been chucked in the massive bucket of water next to it.
 
The refillable ones i get from co op last a day 2 at most before the gas wont come out even when its full - bettwr off getting 5 or so from the £1shop - that have really bright lights that last for months well after the lighter breaks down, or x10 of the throw aways as they last til the gas has gone at least . I get callouses on the end of my thumb even though I nearly always use electric ones, just from heat.
 
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got this on the 11 of jan and gone through the lot almost damn vaping they end up just melting on me and thats the second lot ive had in 6 months £5.87 FREE UK delivery.

still getting through this have lost and wasted a few packets though
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You didn't have the option 'wheel wears out and doesn't spark enough' - all my clippers wheels go this way resulting in searching through draws and swapping them, or doing the two lighter thing. (back in the day clippers didn't do that (and all this was fields))
 
Ouch.

I initially thought the thread title was "How Do Bluelighters Usually Fall For You?". Glad I took a closer look before posting those five lengthy paragraphs.
 
I use a Zippo, but I do not smoke. They are more practical when the lights go out or when the need to start a fire arises. They are very durable and stylish as well.
 
Vurtual said:
You didn't have the option 'wheel wears out and doesn't spark enough' - all my clippers wheels go this way resulting in searching through draws and swapping them, or doing the two lighter thing. (back in the day clippers didn't do that (and all this was fields))
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I'd call that Option Four.

Modern Clippers have a rough-surfaced wheel between two 5-sided wheels, requiring a deliberate shove to strike the spark; this is supposed to be a safety feature. Unfortunately, the three parts aren't properly bonded together; so tend to separate, especially under the pressure of the spring. The actual rough striking surface is case-hardened steel, and I would be very surprised if this ever actually wore out -- clogging with flint particles is a more likely cause of this fault, easily remedied with a miniature wire brush.
 
One Thousand Words said:
Zippo are rubbish to smoke bongs
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Yep. Zippos are shit, even just lighting a joint with a Zippo I can taste the fuel

Regular lighters with a metal "wheel" instead of a clicker are terrible for bongs/pipes too, always end up burning my finger on the red-hot wheel.
 
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