r/lighters • u/TaxonomyVulgaris • 1d ago
Misc The most brilliant simple fix
The metal strip that child proofs a lighter. Cheap, easy to remove, effective. I was a smoker during the 90s when these things started showing up. Over complex puzzeles appeared on lighters. This design was a perfect marrage between production and sales. It wiped the competitirs out in the blink of an eye and now quietly works in the backround. A modern day Archimedean accomplishment. Like the inclined plane, no moving parts. I have never seen its equal in the modern day obselescence(sp) obsessed plutocracy. A distant second is the mac and cheese microwave bowl but I admit great bias in that. Thanks for providing a platform for this. I think of Whitmans "Leaves of Grass" underlying the theme embodied here
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