i Found A Old Lighter!!!!
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 1:21 a.m. - Subject: i Found A Old Lighter!!!! |
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so i was riding my bike around today, and i saw a shiny thing in the bushes, i went to grab it and i was like what the hell is this? then i realized it was like a old lighter.so when i came home, i looked at the lighter trying to figure out how it worked, and i couldnt. so i decided to ask you guys if you knew how the propane gets in or whatever.that is pretty much what i wanna know mostly. there is some hole at the bottom of the lighter that is threaded, i dont knnow what goes n there. please tell me. so i took some pics and made a vid for you guys of how it works and what it looks like.
here is what it basically looks like
here is the threaded hole
and this is the video of how everything works
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 1:36 a.m. - Subject: |
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That does not work off of propane.
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 1:38 a.m. - Subject: |
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But I could be rong, so don’t hold me to it.
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 1:46 a.m. - Subject: |
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But you did make a good find!
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 2:01 a.m. - Subject: |
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if it doesnt work off of propane then what does it it work off?
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 3:32 a.m. - Subject: |
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Just a guess but I think a cord goes through the threaded hole and out the top. you pour lighter fluid in it and cover up the threaded hole.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 4:48 a.m. - Subject: |
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Ohh good looking out Dodge, yeah it is missing a bunch of stuff you can tell just looking at it.
It looks kinda beat up.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 4:49 a.m. - Subject: |
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Damn my posts are not even in order, whats with the site?? lol
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Power Egg
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 1:23 a.m. - Subject: |
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I found an old lighter. K?
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 5:06 a.m. - Subject: |
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just put some lighter fluid in the bottom hole and try lighting it.. my granda had a lighter just like that but then he bought a zippo
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 1:35 a.m. - Subject: |
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man thats awesome! I wish I had one of them. Reckon its worth much?
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 2:10 a.m. - Subject: |
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OMG you found and ancient crack pipe! hahahaha
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 5:43 a.m. - Subject: |
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It’s probably wicked. Try taking it apart and look for cotton in the inside. If you find it, it’s a liquid-based lighter, like a zippo.
OH, and when the succeeding word starts with a vowel, it’s ’an’ not ’a’.
Thanks.
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 2:57 a.m. - Subject: |
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All I can tell you from the pic is that a flint is fed up underneath that roung grinder thing. That’s how you light it, as for fuel I don’t know. I’ve never seen a zippo, they take something like methanol don’t they?
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 2:58 a.m. - Subject: |
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Oh, and it looks like it was made from a bullet shell. Pretty cever.
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 8:50 a.m. - Subject: |
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Normal lighters use Butane. And this lighter is like a Zippo, so you need to use naptha (zippo fuel). Also, I belive that thses sort of lighters were made out of bullets, by men in WWII.
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 4:13 a.m. - Subject: |
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What grunter said. It’s not a propane lighter, it looks like you’d just use normal lighter fluid.
It look like it would work similarly to a "zippo" lighter.
Plus make sure there is flint in it.
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 4:39 a.m. - Subject: |
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That’s a WWI trench lighter... Or a reproduction...
Hard to tell if it’s an original. Hard to believe that a lighter from WWI would still be on the surface under a bush, unless someone dropped it there... Nice find, either way.
You might be able to find reproduction parts for it... Just be careful. If the parts don’t thread on easily, don’t use them. You’ll screw up the original, and it’ll be pretty much worthless. You’re missing the threaded plug for the bottom, and the flint spring (goes in the small tube with the wheel), and of course, a wick, wadding, flint, and fluid.
John’s face and Grunter are right, it uses regular lighter fluid...
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Power Egg
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 4:44 a.m. - Subject: |
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It looks like its PART of an old lighter.
And yes grunter your right theres special lighter thread that goes through that one hole there.
I wouldnt use i, it looks like its been eatin away at by the green shit on it.
Looks like its supposed to go inside a larger piece thats missing.
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| Posted: May 10, 2007 4:52 a.m. - Subject: |
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Find yourself a good brass polish to clean up the green oxidation. After you find the missing parts, the lighter should work fine...
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