Well that's too bad, I was hoping a couple of those tricks would help. If these start to suck after a few uses like you say, then I may give the mini's a try. I'll let you know how they work out. Thanks for sharing your experience, as you obviously have a lot of it!
No problem, if you'd asked 20 years ago, I'd have said they were the best lighter out there bar none for price and reliability but you didn't so I had to moan about how crap they are now, like some miserable old codger, sorry
Though if you don't mind petrol lighters, I've just picked up the rectangular brass one in my picture (bottom left) for about $9 dollars from Aliexpress and for a Chinese lighter the build quality is great, really solid, extremely simple parts, nothing to go wrong, the flint's a bit of a pain to change and I was worried about how long the fuel would last but it's been going for 2 days so far on one refill, highly recommend them for the money.
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