Sorry about that.

I smoke a few cigars a week, trying to keep it down to two or three. At my normal smoke shop the other day I saw this lighter for sale - the blowtorch variety - cost about five dollars. It's refillable, a big plus of course.

I've had a few miniature blow torches in the past, they were difficult to use for very long, something always breaking in short order, cost more than this one as well. I have another cheaper variety of torch lighter, the flame is yellow. The flame on this one is blue, must be hotter. I tried soldering some wire together with lead resin core solder, worked nicely:

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I've needed to solder wires together in close quarters in the past, but had no soldering iron available. Using a standard plumber's propane torch, which I've done, is a tad difficult.

I was showing this to a friend yesterday and he claims that if you heat the wire too hot, it can have an effect on the copper that increases resistance. I did some searching on that just now, I'm not finding back up for that. This guy is pretty knowledgeable on many technical topics however, I don't know what to make of it.

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Lighting them with a Black Cat Firecracker would be much more exciting!

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Isn't that how they used to do it in Roadrunner cartoons?

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K