Imco flint striker camping tool

[amecks]

Unlike the gap tool I posted, this only cost 50 cents at a second hand barn store.  It's an Imco - Made in Austria - flint striker that was made for Cochlan's of Winnipeg Canada - an outdoor outfitters.  This cleaned up reasonably but it ain't pretty.  At least I got the stuck flint to loosen up and extracted it from its small chamber.

The handle has a push lever to spin the striker wheel and there is a "trap door" where extra flints are stored.  Luckily it had one unused flint still in there!



This part slides back to load the flint.  The notches are for increasing the tension on the flint as it wears.

It works pretty well.  I will have to see if it takes standard flints.  I would like to use it for lighting my welding torch.
Al

[Aunt Phil]

The lighter does take standard flints, and the leftover filints you can recover from disposable lighters after the gas runs out.
They were originally marketed to light gas stoves and propane camping equipment before Piezio got cheap.

It's a little on the Mickey Mouse side for a torch lighter though.

[amecks]

"The lighter does take standard flints, and the leftover flints you can recover from disposable lighters after the gas runs out."
Thanks Phil.
It is flimsy for a welding shop but it should work OK in my home garage. (I hope).
Al

[Lostmind]

Here's one I picked up the other day. Thought is was for Torches , but probably for gas lights.
Sorry for the bad photos , no time right now to retake.
1917 & 1922 patents

[bonneyman]

Cool! I love old lighting devices that were designed around lighter flints.

I have a few items like that. One is a propane torch lighter/nozzle, and a couple of Coleman lantern striker lights.

[Aunt Phil]

OK, can I do it all in one post?
The gun type spark shooter is vintage 60s.  They were included in every carton of Cadwell product as a way for Cadwell to shed liability and provide a "safer" way to light off the pot of powdered metal and gunpowder.
Even came with an instruction sheet to wear gloves and turn your back to the pot while lighting.
Safe my ass!

Come on, sneaking the Hubbel Plugs into the picture of the BOM torch doesn't make them lighters.  Now I gotta dig down on my desk and refind my porcelain Hubble Plug.
For the kids, those adapters were originally made so housewives could plug their new electric iron into the ceiling light and do their ironing since the ceiling light was probably the only electric outlet in the room.
They were also useful in houses first wired for electric where the only form of outlet was the Mazda Light socket, before the 2 blade parallel plug came along.

[Lostmind]

Thanks for the info on the " Pistol" sparker. I thought it was older.
I have a porcelain adapter I use in the basement socket.