{"id":1531,"date":"2009-04-06T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T01:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:01:29","slug":"a414-miniature-lighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"#a414 :: Miniature lighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1532\" title=\"040509\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040509-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"040509\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040509-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040509-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/040509.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This flea-market find was stamped out of chromed steel in Japan some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an elegant, perfect little machine, barely 7\/8ths of an inch tall: The horizontal tube on top is just big enough to house a flint and pressure spring, the wick is hardly thicker than a toothpick, and you could probably fill it with about 1\/3 teaspoon of lighter fluid before it overflowed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to see if I can fix this up and get it burning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This flea-market find was stamped out of chromed steel in Japan some years ago. It&#8217;s an elegant, perfect little machine, barely 7\/8ths of an inch tall: The horizontal tube on top is just big enough to house a flint and pressure spring, the wick is hardly thicker than a toothpick, and you could probably fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fetish","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}