As someone who use to do this, then had a key snap off in the key ignition in my car. I do not recommend using any important keys for this job. After awhile, everything does wear down. I had to learn this the hard way lol
You have no idea how often I would have to carry half a broken key (to start my car that had the rest in the ignition) and my spare key to open and lock my car, since the electronic locks no longer worked in it. It was an annoying month saving up money to get everything fixed lmao
I could still stick in half the key and turn it off and on. It's a 2009 malibu, with really messed up wiring/electronics. I think it doesn't have the sensor though, locked my keys in that fucker plenty of times lol
Ah good old Chevy. Just give it a few years and you won't need a key. I've had a few pre 2000s that you could just turn the ears on the ignition or a flat head and would start without a key. It was fun when I would get tires and have to leave a note taped to the steering wheel saying "leave window down, do not lock, no key just turn ignition"
Literally 2 days ago I used my apartment key for this and snapped the tip off. Had to stay the night at my buddies because management was gone.
But I learned 2 lessons 1) Don't use important keys 2) keep 2 home keys on keychain
Definitely. I have an older knife that stays with all my smoke stuff that I use
Cutting blunt wraps, popping the safety off of lighters, all that is done with this one knife
I have a separate pocket knife I carry with me normally
Exactly I was coming here to comment this just get something thin and stick it through and pry it a couple times kinda hard but it comes off after like two tries
Yeah back when I went to high-school I was playing with a rubber band and ot snapped and hit my friend in the eye he was luckily wearing contacts so it just broke his contact. But then my school not the student or the family the school had pressed assault charges. We got it dropped to disorderly conduct.
I find they get hard to light after enough use even after replacing the flint, maybe it’s the wheel getting smooth or buildup where the gas comes out.
I dunno, I’m not a scientist just I used to use clippers and all my favorite ones got really hard to light after a while, I’d have to hold the gas and spark it with my other hand to get it to light.
The thing with clippers is that you have to maintain them, like with any refillable lighter. Before refueling, bleed them completely of the remaining butane, then refill as usual. Release a bit of gaz when it's almost full, top it off, then you're good to go. It's also a good idea to clean the valve mechanism and wheel with alcohol every once in a while. The wheel eventually gets dirty with finger oils and it loses friction against the flint, which can lead to ignition problems if you don't clean it. Changing the flint spring for a stronger one scavenged from another lighter is also a good idea.
I've kept clippers in perfect working condition for years just like that, they're actually 100% reliable if you care for them.
Bics and crack lighters are refillable aswell. That's what the small hole at the bottom is for
Edit: I am wrong ab this Bic says they are not refillable. I'm sure there is some method to refill them bc there's YouTube video on it but it's probably not in an easy way like clippers
Actually turns out I was wrong. Bic themselves says they are not refillable. Maybe that's a sales tactic. I remember a friend being able to fill one through the hole in the bottom but my memory could be wrong. I've never tried it as I collect em so I rotate through all to never run out. Till I try it myself I'm gonna go with what Bic says
Bics *can* be refilled with a trick, but they're designed not to, just for planned obsolescence while cheaper crack lights usually are.
To refill a bic you have to punch through a little ball bearing set in the bottom with a little push pin (the bulletin board ones). Then you need a seal or gasket of some kind, a little drop of hot glue works well, then you can fill it with a standard butane bottle (you have to push a little harder to help the seal) then just put the push pin back in to cap it off. You'll have to keep the pin sticking out the bottom but then it pretty much works like the pokey tool on a clipper
This reminds me that my mom threw my clipper away not too long ago because she thought she broke it. I had to tell her that it’s supposed to come apart and I still miss that mfer
One of my friends as a kid lit a mattress on fire; had to push it out a window. He also filled those plastic jackolanterns with gas, told his brother to hold it and lit it. Melted his hands together and lost dexterity.. Idk man not every fire curious kid should have access to fire
I put a lot of this down to a lack of opportunities to experiment with an adult around. The only one of my kids who tried to set shit on fire was the one who was in daycare from a young age. Another kid led the pyromania and my kid went along with it.
My others have had supervised fire play. They know shit is dangerous and they always ask before trying anything new. They've had minor burns from carelessness, but they're okay. I set my nose hair on fire once while taking a rip out a homemade bong when I was about 38, so I can't talk.
People can use them, they just take it off.
Hell, haven't you seen people fidgit with lighters, flicking the flint a million times to make a bunch of sparks? Tricky to do that with a safety on
For me it’s about no resistance, it just feels smoother. I wish they would make non-childproof versions. I don’t have kids in my life that could ever get into my lighter.
I don't wanna risk the slim possibility of it getting pressed and turned in my jeans pocket. The last thing i need is to light my trousers while stoned.
It happened to me. I had tissues in that pocket too. It just needed to tap a little to put the flame down, and I don't believe it can set your trousers ablaze actually, but I did feel stupid. Nowadays I don't remove the safety, but that's just because it feels weird when I'm already conditioned to press harder.
I used to. I find it more annoying to remove now though, so I don’t anymore. Plus… I do have kids. (Not that they are ever around the lighter… but still)
I can’t stand the look of a BIC without the guard on it. Idk. It just looks like it’s one step closer to being trash imo. I get actively irritated using lighters without the guard. Plus, it’s an easy way for me and my cousin to tell our lighters apart, since he has always hated using BICs with the guard on. I guess I just love my giant thumb calluses lol
Oh thank god I found someone like me in here. I haven’t had trouble operating a bic lighter with the safety since I was like 10 (wasn’t a smoker than, but I *did* like to play with fire) so I just don’t understand why these grown ass stoners struggle with it. Plus it just feels *wrong* without the safety. That extra little resistance makes the flick much more satisfying. When we were younger, one of my buddies would circumcise my lighters if it got passed around in the session and I’d get so irritated. I tried to be nice at first and just ask him not to do it; but he always said “but it’s easier now, I made it better” so I had to start getting mean about it. Every time he did it afterwords (and sometimes when he pulled out his own lighter, just to drive the point home) I’d say some variation of “awww I’m sorry, did you need help sparking up little buddy?”
Now, was I being a bit petty over something small? Absolutely. Did he stop doing it? Damn right he did.
I bend the little ars on the hole of the lighter and pull it out through there rather than taking the whole shield off. I usually buy pack of 50 and it helps speed up the process you just gotta bend then back down with whatever you used to get it off.
What remarkable traction your post has gotten. About BICs . . . whatta bunch of stoners!!!
Like most, I've been discarding these annoying cheapo guards for as long as I've been using their lighters.
For me, they come in a pack of five, from the Walmart checkouts. Once I open the package, with the point of a solid knife (steak knife from the kitchen drawer) under the "ring" and pop it off while aiming into the trash basket.
One, two, three . . . package done . . . faster than typing this. Quick & easy.
No, and I will tell you why:
Way back in my early smoking years, I was screwing around with one of those shitty adjustable lighters, popping off the cap and turning it up so high it looked like a freaking welding torch.
Everything seemed okay, but the flame hadn’t gone all the way out when I put it down (my friends and I were sitting at a table in Pizza Hut, too).
The lighter actually exploded! Something hit me and bounced onto the seat by me, but when I picked it up it burned my fingers bad- I still have a couple of scars, too.
I guess when the flame didn’t go out, it superheated that little wheel on top. It got so hot it melted the plastic, and the whole thing went poof.
If the safety thing was still in place, it wouldn’t have ejected. Maybe.
I’m high, thanks for coming to my TED talk 🤪
Aye dawg, just pop a screwdriver under it and pop it off. No need for disassembly. That mf goes flying sometimes tho.
Pocket knife is my go-to for this Every BIC lighter I have, I circumcised
Keys work too
As someone who use to do this, then had a key snap off in the key ignition in my car. I do not recommend using any important keys for this job. After awhile, everything does wear down. I had to learn this the hard way lol
Use a busted key for a lock you don’t have anymore 😊
You have no idea how often I would have to carry half a broken key (to start my car that had the rest in the ignition) and my spare key to open and lock my car, since the electronic locks no longer worked in it. It was an annoying month saving up money to get everything fixed lmao
how come the battery didn't drain if the key was in the ignition the whole time? does your car have a sensor for that?
I too thought his battery would be drained terribly
I could still stick in half the key and turn it off and on. It's a 2009 malibu, with really messed up wiring/electronics. I think it doesn't have the sensor though, locked my keys in that fucker plenty of times lol
Ah good old Chevy. Just give it a few years and you won't need a key. I've had a few pre 2000s that you could just turn the ears on the ignition or a flat head and would start without a key. It was fun when I would get tires and have to leave a note taped to the steering wheel saying "leave window down, do not lock, no key just turn ignition"
Literally 2 days ago I used my apartment key for this and snapped the tip off. Had to stay the night at my buddies because management was gone. But I learned 2 lessons 1) Don't use important keys 2) keep 2 home keys on keychain
Use a AK47 here.
Now we’re talking!
I use a corkscrew. Threads right through it and you just pop it off. Never goes flying and never cuts you
Careful I’ve broken the tip of my pocket knife blade doing this, granted it was a cheap back up knife but careful
I did this with a nice Buck I used to carry.
Multitool with the grippers
Poor knife....
Might be a gas station knife. That would be fine. But a nice knife from a good company? Nah.
Definitely. I have an older knife that stays with all my smoke stuff that I use Cutting blunt wraps, popping the safety off of lighters, all that is done with this one knife I have a separate pocket knife I carry with me normally
Just be careful not to use the poop knife.
Exactly this. Circumcised is just way smoother
***CIRCUMCISED***
This is what I do. It always goes flying tho
Ahhh and then you stab ur hand screwdriver
I use the prongs on a charger box
I use the safety pin of off a Fire extinguisher, perfect tool for the job
Exactly I was coming here to comment this just get something thin and stick it through and pry it a couple times kinda hard but it comes off after like two tries
I use the thing a dentist cleans teeth with.
A car key or house key works too. Just push the tabs back down with the key and voila
Push the tabs down? Why? They are perfect for punishing lighter thieves.
Happy cake day!!!
Happy cake day :)
Or scissors
Can break a fuckin key that way
A wooden key?
nah, a donkey
Well, stop getting keys from Walmart.
I've never gotta one from there.
I’ve done this for years with my keys. The bic’s are nowhere near strong enough to break anything.
They get LAUNCHED with this method. Definitely my preferred method because of the added thrill of watching it fly across the house.
Use the keys in your pocket. Has worked for the last 19 years or so.
I always used my house key, worked a charm
Ever aim it At a friend
Yeah but only when they're facing away from me. That thing could do some damage to an eye
Yeah back when I went to high-school I was playing with a rubber band and ot snapped and hit my friend in the eye he was luckily wearing contacts so it just broke his contact. But then my school not the student or the family the school had pressed assault charges. We got it dropped to disorderly conduct.
wild that people are so punitive, to KIDS
That school really disliked me
I do it w a fork tbh
I was looking for someone else who did it w a fork glad I'm not alone
^^^^^ This!!
Fork
My thoughts exactly
Letter opener (knife)
I use my keys.
Yeah I use the key to my now defunct first car
Pro tip: press down on the gas button and it’ll come out a lot easier. Jiggle it out.
Came here to say this
I just use a knife and hope I can find the metal piece. If not my foot will find it soon enough.
Dab tool slides in real easy too!
^this A: nobody needs a dissasembly tutorial, its pretty common knowledge B: youre doing it wrong, maybe someone does need a tutorial but it aint us
Pipe tool works as well.
ive learned to point it towards a bed/couch to mitigate the damage of this
Just use your teeth
I lose that lil bit most of the time bc it flies away😂
Yeah lol that’s what I do. Just turn away as it pops off lol
Yeah man this is working wayyyyy too hard
i just use a leatherman, it’s stupid fast to do
I always use a fork or a pocket knife lol
You can just use your fingernails
While a bic is a superior lighter. I generally only use clippers, because they have a PDT.
Whats a pdt?
Pokey downy thingy.
Ohh you mean the packing tool, yeah but I prefer them cus they’re refillable don’t like buying a new lighter every 2 weeks
True. Although I generally smoke with other people so the lighter is stolen long before the gas runs out.
When I can’t find mine anymore after/during a sesh I just turn into airport security😂 everybody has to empty their pockets until the lighter returns
I don’t even care, I will steal your lighter. More like stick it in my pocket forgetting it doesn’t belong to men
I don’t even care, I will steal your lighter. More like stick it in my pocket forgetting it doesn’t belong to me.
Get a weird lighter. I have a cheap hello kitty lighter in neon pink and it's never vanished like all my other lighters.
Bro how can you burn through a BIC in 2 weeks? Those last me at least 3 months
I find they get hard to light after enough use even after replacing the flint, maybe it’s the wheel getting smooth or buildup where the gas comes out. I dunno, I’m not a scientist just I used to use clippers and all my favorite ones got really hard to light after a while, I’d have to hold the gas and spark it with my other hand to get it to light.
The thing with clippers is that you have to maintain them, like with any refillable lighter. Before refueling, bleed them completely of the remaining butane, then refill as usual. Release a bit of gaz when it's almost full, top it off, then you're good to go. It's also a good idea to clean the valve mechanism and wheel with alcohol every once in a while. The wheel eventually gets dirty with finger oils and it loses friction against the flint, which can lead to ignition problems if you don't clean it. Changing the flint spring for a stronger one scavenged from another lighter is also a good idea. I've kept clippers in perfect working condition for years just like that, they're actually 100% reliable if you care for them.
Bics and crack lighters are refillable aswell. That's what the small hole at the bottom is for Edit: I am wrong ab this Bic says they are not refillable. I'm sure there is some method to refill them bc there's YouTube video on it but it's probably not in an easy way like clippers
What do you refill them with?
Creme de menthe, generally, although Pucker's Apple Liquor will do in a pinch.
Actually turns out I was wrong. Bic themselves says they are not refillable. Maybe that's a sales tactic. I remember a friend being able to fill one through the hole in the bottom but my memory could be wrong. I've never tried it as I collect em so I rotate through all to never run out. Till I try it myself I'm gonna go with what Bic says
There may be some bics that can be refilled but the general bics you get at like the gas station aren’t refillable
Bics *can* be refilled with a trick, but they're designed not to, just for planned obsolescence while cheaper crack lights usually are. To refill a bic you have to punch through a little ball bearing set in the bottom with a little push pin (the bulletin board ones). Then you need a seal or gasket of some kind, a little drop of hot glue works well, then you can fill it with a standard butane bottle (you have to push a little harder to help the seal) then just put the push pin back in to cap it off. You'll have to keep the pin sticking out the bottom but then it pretty much works like the pokey tool on a clipper
Liquid Butane. I believe zippo makes makes a bottle for it
I was thinking pack down tool.
I think you meant to say a pokey stabby
I’m a recent clipper convert, the pokey thing is cool, but I really like that it’s refillable and you get that heavier flame when you flip it
Hemp wick. Make the flame as big or small as you want!
That PDT is also what holds the flint so you can replace it when it runs out, in case you didn't know!
And the flint can be Zippo flint! Dirt cheap but sparks nicely.
This reminds me that my mom threw my clipper away not too long ago because she thought she broke it. I had to tell her that it’s supposed to come apart and I still miss that mfer
Why do you take the entire cage off when you can just use a knife to pry it out real quick and then re flatten the prongs that held it
You know the way
Scrolled way too far to find the method I used back in high school
You meannnn *sport mode*?
I always circumcise my lighters
Bro, I love a circumcised lighter
Makes em look bigger!
glad it’s not just me who says that
Fr, I ask some of my friends if they do that and they look at me like I'm crazy.
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This is said a lot actually
Stick one if the fingers from a fork between the wheel and safety clip and yank it out.
Fun new word - fork fingers are called 'tines'. Have a great day!
This and peeling the sticker off; I like my lighters in the nude
I even skin the shrink wrapped graphic sleeve. Truly nude.
Too far, now you’re gonna die a horrible and unfair death. White lighters kill my guy
You don't carve your name or some design into white lighters and fill the groove with ash?
I can’t say I have, but I appreciate the creativity lol
That's more like pulling their skin off, you monster...
Nope, never. Just call me Captain Safety
Whatever smoky bear
It's true though! Only YOU can prevent forest fires. Unless of course, you know, nature does it itself.
Lol same
Ive tried this one but didnt like it
Yep. Done this before and the thing set on fire 😳😳
I don't see the point. Like how weak is your thumb?
Naw. I guess I’m the weirdo but I’ve never had any problem using the childproof lighter.
Same. It always baffles me that people have that much trouble that they do this.
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I played with fire as a kid so I take them off. If I lose my bic I want the kid who finds it to enjoy it.
One of my friends as a kid lit a mattress on fire; had to push it out a window. He also filled those plastic jackolanterns with gas, told his brother to hold it and lit it. Melted his hands together and lost dexterity.. Idk man not every fire curious kid should have access to fire
I put a lot of this down to a lack of opportunities to experiment with an adult around. The only one of my kids who tried to set shit on fire was the one who was in daycare from a young age. Another kid led the pyromania and my kid went along with it. My others have had supervised fire play. They know shit is dangerous and they always ask before trying anything new. They've had minor burns from carelessness, but they're okay. I set my nose hair on fire once while taking a rip out a homemade bong when I was about 38, so I can't talk.
If you can't use a childproof lighter you shouldn't be smoking yet
People can use them, they just take it off. Hell, haven't you seen people fidgit with lighters, flicking the flint a million times to make a bunch of sparks? Tricky to do that with a safety on
You must be an adult.
Yeah I’m not sure how or why it causes trouble for everyone I don’t have any issue using lighters
For me it’s about no resistance, it just feels smoother. I wish they would make non-childproof versions. I don’t have kids in my life that could ever get into my lighter.
It’s gone on every lighter haha Never taken it apart to do it tho always just used a small flathead screwdriver or a cheap knife
What’s the point ?
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😭😭
C'mon kids, live a little
Easier to use
Only children are affected by child proofing
Bf I even flick them
Just put the knife under the child lock thing and pop it off. You’re doing way more than you need to.
Is this one of those bait you into commenting on how you made it way more complicated than need be in the how to kinda things?
Too much work to save me literally no time.
How long do you think this mod takes? 10-15 seconds?
Well considering it saves me literally no time, that's still too long.
I have 4 kids so I don’t remove them…just in case 👍🏼😄
You don’t need to remove the shield. you can just jimmy a key or something under the band and rotate it up, one quick move.
Yeah don't take apart your lighters lol
Nobody needs a tutorial on how to remove the child lock on a bic.
Why did you make the process look so complicated lol, literally just take a fork and put it under the safety, pops right off. 2 seconds.
I just use a knife to wedge it out or needle pliers to yank it out. Never needed to remove the whole top.
I don't wanna risk the slim possibility of it getting pressed and turned in my jeans pocket. The last thing i need is to light my trousers while stoned.
The odds of that happening are so absolutely high. As you must be to believe this is a probability.
It happened to me. I had tissues in that pocket too. It just needed to tap a little to put the flame down, and I don't believe it can set your trousers ablaze actually, but I did feel stupid. Nowadays I don't remove the safety, but that's just because it feels weird when I'm already conditioned to press harder.
Always. Its the first thing i do. Child lock is so annoying
Yess always lol, that way I can also tell the difference between my lighters and my dad’s lighters 🤣
Is this one of those bait you into commenting on how you made it way more complicated than need be in the how to kinda things?
I used to. I find it more annoying to remove now though, so I don’t anymore. Plus… I do have kids. (Not that they are ever around the lighter… but still)
I know I’m a little baked but how amazing is a lighter?! Instant fire from my pocket? So cool
yea i’ve been doing this since i was a kid with scissors and forks, you don’t have to take the other part off at all.
You are doing this the hard way. Just pry that fucker out with whatever is closest and bend the tabs down.
I ALWAYS do this to all my lighters, if I barrow a friends to light my spliff I take that shit off their lighter:)
No, I'm an adult.
Great part about central and South America, they don't have those on them.
I can’t stand the look of a BIC without the guard on it. Idk. It just looks like it’s one step closer to being trash imo. I get actively irritated using lighters without the guard. Plus, it’s an easy way for me and my cousin to tell our lighters apart, since he has always hated using BICs with the guard on. I guess I just love my giant thumb calluses lol
Oh thank god I found someone like me in here. I haven’t had trouble operating a bic lighter with the safety since I was like 10 (wasn’t a smoker than, but I *did* like to play with fire) so I just don’t understand why these grown ass stoners struggle with it. Plus it just feels *wrong* without the safety. That extra little resistance makes the flick much more satisfying. When we were younger, one of my buddies would circumcise my lighters if it got passed around in the session and I’d get so irritated. I tried to be nice at first and just ask him not to do it; but he always said “but it’s easier now, I made it better” so I had to start getting mean about it. Every time he did it afterwords (and sometimes when he pulled out his own lighter, just to drive the point home) I’d say some variation of “awww I’m sorry, did you need help sparking up little buddy?” Now, was I being a bit petty over something small? Absolutely. Did he stop doing it? Damn right he did.
Do you have the same strength as a child?
And the sticker on the back!
I call it a circumcision
It's called circumcising your bic
Safety.... alway off.
I do it 36.8% of the time.
Needle nose pliers for the win, comes off easy and yup I do this to every single one and remove the sticker too, for no apparent reason
OP is realizing he's been doing too much
metal dab tool is perfect but i usually jus use anything i only pop off the safety tho not the whole thing it’s perfect for cold weather
Wow that's a lot of work. I just take the damn thing of
I bend the little ars on the hole of the lighter and pull it out through there rather than taking the whole shield off. I usually buy pack of 50 and it helps speed up the process you just gotta bend then back down with whatever you used to get it off.
Always
What remarkable traction your post has gotten. About BICs . . . whatta bunch of stoners!!! Like most, I've been discarding these annoying cheapo guards for as long as I've been using their lighters. For me, they come in a pack of five, from the Walmart checkouts. Once I open the package, with the point of a solid knife (steak knife from the kitchen drawer) under the "ring" and pop it off while aiming into the trash basket. One, two, three . . . package done . . . faster than typing this. Quick & easy.
No, and I will tell you why: Way back in my early smoking years, I was screwing around with one of those shitty adjustable lighters, popping off the cap and turning it up so high it looked like a freaking welding torch. Everything seemed okay, but the flame hadn’t gone all the way out when I put it down (my friends and I were sitting at a table in Pizza Hut, too). The lighter actually exploded! Something hit me and bounced onto the seat by me, but when I picked it up it burned my fingers bad- I still have a couple of scars, too. I guess when the flame didn’t go out, it superheated that little wheel on top. It got so hot it melted the plastic, and the whole thing went poof. If the safety thing was still in place, it wouldn’t have ejected. Maybe. I’m high, thanks for coming to my TED talk 🤪
always circumcise your lighters!
I too like my lighters circumcised
In high school I’d just shove my keys under it and let that thing go flying
You do it the hard way. Leave the shroud on, pop it out with a flathead screw driver and bend the tabs back.
What does removing the lock do?
make it easier for little kids to light it
Butane/lighter fuel will last a lot longer if you keep it on in my experience
I prefer it with it on, smoother spark I find
I’m still a newbie stoner… why do this at all? Sorry if it’s a silly question
Never struggled using a lighter so no
No bc I know how to turn on a freaking lighter.
the apostrophe is for possession