Oh -- those things? Tried one last month. It made a clicking sound and
that's all it did. Drove home, it lighted immediately. It's now parked by
the fireplace.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 1/20/2008 2:05 PM Nunya Business wrote:

> We used one of these things:
>
> http://www.bernzomatic.com/bernzomatic/consumer/jhtml/detail.jhtml?prodId=BernzoProd100068
>
> which usually works pretty well, but we had the same problem with cold
> weather. As I recall, I wound up lighting the torch with a match and
> then using it normally. I realize that's not a ton of help to ya, but
> whaddya want for nuttin'? : )
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
>
> On 1/20/08, *Michael Elliott* <camping.elliott@gmail.com
> <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Okay, this barely qualifies as having any Vanagon content whatsoever but
>     here goes anyway: Mrs Squirrel and I use BBQ/fireplace lighters like
>     the
>     Scripto Aim N Flame* when camping because the long snoots are useful for
>     lighting the stove and essential for poking into and lighting
>     mantle-type
>     oil lanterns. For most of the year they work just fine, but this winter
>     I've been spending the occasional night up at 7,000 feet, where the
>     piezo
>     ignitors commonly used on those lighters start not working so good, and
>     where the below-freezing temps reduce the pressure of the butane or
>     whatever fuel is in them. In short, they click and they click and no
>     flame
>     comes out.
>
>     I could use wooden kitchen matches, but they are a bit messy and smell
>     kinda stinky (he said, fastidiously).
>
>     So I'm curious to know if any of you folk who live in the high
>     places and
>     cold weathers have anything which works real good and is pokeable (for
>     them lanterns)?
>
>     ================
>     * I find the statement on Scripto's website
>     ( http://www.scriptousa.com/lighters.html) that "Whether appearing
>     on a TV
>     show or at your local campfire or barbecue, Aim N Flame is instantly
>     recognizable" to be vaguely troubling. They crave attention? It never
>     occurred to me that the Aim N Flame might want to be recognized. How
>     much
>     more about the secret inner emotional world of the Aim N Flame do I not
>     know about? What if we have to start worrying about the feelings of all
>     our lighters?
>
>     --
>     Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>     71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>     84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>     74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>     KG6RCR
>
>