Dr_Evil
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Anybody care to explain how this works?
Anybody care to explain how this works?
Ive heard of welders getting killed or losing a leg by keeping a Bic lighter in their pockets I have also had a bic next to my ashtray and and the lit cigg burning a hole through it causeing it hiss as it let the gas out and it was scary. I realize a spark is what ignites basicly but theres no gauranteeYes, and yes, and it's more dangerous than it looks in the video, if you want to make a Molotov cocktail with gasoline/diesel/kerosene ok then, but if you screw around with butane/propane like that you are doing something much more dangerous, so be careful with it.
Alan
Ive heard of welders getting killed or losing a leg by keeping a Bic lighter in their pockets
Wow that is scary stuff, they have done alot of improvments for probably more for child safety wich was the most important. I dont see bic having the flame adjustment anymore I dont know if that was for safety or costs. Im pretty sure crickets are still out there I just dont buy them. Have you seen or remember the see through ones that had like a 2 stage insides where it was seperated down the middle and when you tilt it more fluid would go to one side. wonder if that was a safety thing or for some other reason? Or are those crickets. I would love to get a 1975 era bic and compare it to todays, I think we would be pretty surprised at the changesYes that's right, and those lighters, or was it the Cricket lighters or was it both, I don't remember but in those early days of the disposable lighter there were a number of deaths due to them exploding. 60 minutes did a show on this I think it was in 1975 and the design flaws in these were soon fixed, but not before several people were killed. In 1975/1976 I had a friend whose parents owned a motel and several times we secretly rented room 23 for us and our friends to get together. I remember a disagreement with him when he threw his lighter at me and hit me and I picked it up and threw it back at him and he ducked and it bounced off the wall, it broke the top of the lighter, he picked it up and said you broke my lighter, he presses the button and you hear a loud shhhhh sound. I said don't try to light it, this was one of those transparent lighters, I think a cricket lighter where you could see how much butane was in it. It was almost empty, he was sitting on the bed and fortunately the lighter was pointed straight up when he tried to light it, it shot flames to the ceiling, had he been standing he may have set the place on fire, had he been holding the lighter differently he could have been badly injured.
Alan
Wow that is scary stuff, they have done alot of improvments for probably more for child safety wich was the most important. I dont see bic having the flame adjustment anymore I dont know if that was for safety or costs. Im pretty sure crickets are still out there I just dont buy them. Have you seen or remember the see through ones that had like a 2 stage insides where it was seperated down the middle and when you tilt it more fluid would go to one side. wonder if that was a safety thing or for some other reason? Or are those crickets. I would love to get a 1975 era bic and compare it to todays, I think we would be pretty surprised at the changes