"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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Someone has a goofy sense of things. Someone want to tell me how a butane
lighter can explode while lighting a pilot light?

I use an Aim N Flame, one of the long lighters with the flame at the end.
Or, I use a Mapp or propane torch to warm the thermocouple and light the
pilot. I've been known to warm the thermocouple with a Mapp torch, turn
the
gas valve open, and the torch lights the burner ring under the water tank.
Yeah, that's probably not a good idea.

I don't much like the smell of sulfur with using matches.


I probably goes with the "don't use your cell phone when pumping gas"
stories. I did a quick Google search and found nothing of interest on
explosions