On 12/05/2013 13:09, Gordon Henderson wrote:
In article ,
polygonum wrote:
And who remembers the gas lighter that was a thin, flexible pipe and a
triggered thing at the end (halfway between a fag lighter and a blowtorch!)?

Yes! Our cooker had a central pilot light that did the 4 burners,
but for the grill or oven we needed to use the little lighter thing -
light it off the pilot then use it to light to grill or oven.

I used to try to get it to fill a baloon, but mains gas pressure is way
to low for that... Probably just as well!

Gordon

Sounds about right. I can place/time my first experience of them to 1962
in Newcastle.

Ebay item 230931072940 (finished) - have a look at the pictures - one
shows such an ignitor quite clearly.

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Rod